Use appendrel planning logic for top-level UNION ALL structures.

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: 947d0c862c895618a874344322e7b07c9df05cb2
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2010-11-08T20:15:02Z
Releases: 9.1.0
Use appendrel planning logic for top-level UNION ALL structures.

Formerly, we could convert a UNION ALL structure inside a subquery-in-FROM
into an appendrel, as a side effect of pulling up the subquery into its
parent; but top-level UNION ALL always caused use of plan_set_operations().
That didn't matter too much because you got an Append-based plan either
way.  However, now that the appendrel code can do things with MergeAppend,
it's worthwhile to hack up the top-level case so it also uses appendrels.

This is a bit of a stopgap; but going much further than this will require
a major rewrite of the planner's set-operations support, which I'm not
prepared to undertake now.  For the moment let's grab the low-hanging fruit.

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