Further fixes in qual nullingrel adjustment for outer join commutation.

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

Commit: acc5821e4dcb6b7df6ad1f806459f95fcaebadfc
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2023-02-10T18:31:00Z
Releases: 16.0
Further fixes in qual nullingrel adjustment for outer join commutation.

One of the add_nulling_relids calls in deconstruct_distribute_oj_quals
added an OJ relid to too few Vars, while the other added it to too
many.  We should consider the syntactic structure not
min_left/righthand while deciding which Vars to decorate, and when
considering pushing up a lower outer join pursuant to transforming the
second form of OJ identity 3 to the first form, we only want to
decorate Vars coming from its LHS.

In a related bug, I realized that make_outerjoininfo was failing to
check a very basic property that's needed to apply OJ identity 3:
the syntactically-upper outer join clause can't refer to the lower
join's LHS.  This didn't break the join order restriction logic,
but it led to setting bogus commute_xxx bits, possibly resulting
in bogus nullingrel markings in modified quals.

Richard Guo and Tom Lane

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