Fix generation of EC join conditions at the wrong plan level.

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

Commit: ab2402268c04401533f163d959cdccd0e124f526
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2024-04-16T15:22:39Z
Releases: 14.12
Fix generation of EC join conditions at the wrong plan level.

get_baserel_parampathinfo previously assumed without checking that
the results of generate_join_implied_equalities "necessarily satisfy
join_clause_is_movable_into".  This turns out to be wrong in the
presence of outer joins, because the generated clauses could include
Vars that mustn't be evaluated below a relevant outer join.  That
led to applying clauses at the wrong plan level and possibly getting
incorrect query results.  We must check each clause's nullable_relids,
and really the right thing to do is test join_clause_is_movable_into.

However, trying to fix it that way exposes an oversight in
equivclass.c: it wasn't careful about marking join clauses for
appendrel children with the correct clause_relids.  That caused the
modified get_baserel_parampathinfo code to reject some clauses it
still needs to accept.  (See parallel commit for HEAD/v16 for more
commentary about that.)

Per bug #18429 from Benoît Ryder.  This misbehavior existed for
a long time before commit 2489d76c4, so patch v12-v15 this way.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18429-8982d4a348cc86c6@postgresql.org

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