Fix buggy interaction between array subscripts and subplan params

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

Commit: bdc5dedfcaa57ddeef115252283019d79083d8a2
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Date: 2026-01-07T00:51:19Z
Releases: 18.2
Fix buggy interaction between array subscripts and subplan params

In a7f107df2 I changed subplan param evaluation to happen within the
containing expression. As part of that, ExecInitSubPlanExpr() was changed to
evaluate parameters via a new EEOP_PARAM_SET expression step. These parameters
were temporarily stored into ExprState->resvalue/resnull, with some reasoning
why that would be fine. Unfortunately, that analysis was wrong -
ExecInitSubscriptionRef() evaluates the input array into "resv"/"resnull",
which will often point to ExprState->resvalue/resnull. This means that the
EEOP_PARAM_SET, if inside an array subscript, would overwrite the input array
to array subscript.

The fix is fairly simple - instead of evaluating into
ExprState->resvalue/resnull, store the temporary result of the subplan in the
subplan's return value.

Bug: #19370
Reported-by: Zepeng Zhang <redraiment@gmail.com>
Diagnosed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Diagnosed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19370-7fb7a5854b7618f1@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 18

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