Extend ExecBuildAggTrans() to support a NULL pointer check.

Jeff Davis <jdavis@postgresql.org>

Commit: c954d49046504bde0a80b5fec53f4321dd88f1ea
Author: Jeff Davis <jdavis@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-03-05T01:29:18Z
Releases: 13.0
Extend ExecBuildAggTrans() to support a NULL pointer check.

Optionally push a step to check for a NULL pointer to the pergroup
state.

This will be important for disk-based hash aggregation in combination
with grouping sets. When memory limits are reached, a given tuple may
find its per-group state for some grouping sets but not others. For
the former, it advances the per-group state as normal; for the latter,
it skips evaluation and the calling code will have to spill the tuple
and reprocess it in a later batch.

Add the NULL check as a separate expression step because in some
common cases it's not needed.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200221202212.ssb2qpmdgrnx52sj%40alap3.anarazel.de

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