Ensure casting to typmod -1 generates a RelabelType.

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

Commit: c43d72b245ecfac9fed68363b5c682fc8958bf86
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2021-12-16T20:36:02Z
Releases: 11.15
Ensure casting to typmod -1 generates a RelabelType.

Fix the code changed by commit 5c056b0c2 so that we always generate
RelabelType, not something else, for a cast to unspecified typmod.
Otherwise planner optimizations might not happen.

It appears we missed this point because the previous experiments were
done on type numeric: the parser undesirably generates a call on the
numeric() length-coercion function, but then numeric_support()
optimizes that down to a RelabelType, so that everything seems fine.
It misbehaves for types that have a non-optimized length coercion
function, such as bpchar.

Per report from John Naylor.  Back-patch to all supported branches,
as the previous patch eventually was.  Unfortunately, that no longer
includes 9.6 ... we really shouldn't put this type of change into a
nearly-EOL branch.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFBsxsEfbFHEkouc+FSj+3K1sHipLPbEC67L0SAe-9-da8QtYg@mail.gmail.com

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