Fix planner crash from pfree'ing a partial path that a GatherPath uses.

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

Commit: c45bf5751b6338488bd79ce777210285531da373
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2016-04-30T16:29:21Z
Releases: 9.6.0
Fix planner crash from pfree'ing a partial path that a GatherPath uses.

We mustn't run generate_gather_paths() during add_paths_to_joinrel(),
because that function can be invoked multiple times for the same target
joinrel.  Not only is it wasteful to build GatherPaths repeatedly, but
a later add_partial_path() could delete the partial path that a previously
created GatherPath depends on.  Instead establish the convention that we
do generate_gather_paths() for a rel only just before set_cheapest().

The code was accidentally not broken for baserels, because as of today there
never is more than one partial path for a baserel.  But that assumption
obviously has a pretty short half-life, so move the generate_gather_paths()
calls for those cases as well.

Also add some generic comments explaining how and why this all works.

Per fuzz testing by Andreas Seltenreich.

Report: <871t5pgwdt.fsf@credativ.de>

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