Fix bogus ctid requirement for dummy-root partitioned targets

Amit Langote <amitlan@postgresql.org>

Commit: fab386f74888cb3cf4df9a20bcd24df2eb232bd2
Author: Amit Langote <amitlan@postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-01-23T01:23:18Z
Releases: 16.12
Fix bogus ctid requirement for dummy-root partitioned targets

ExecInitModifyTable() unconditionally required a ctid junk column even
when the target was a partitioned table. This led to spurious "could
not find junk ctid column" errors when all children were excluded and
only the dummy root result relation remained.

A partitioned table only appears in the result relations list when all
leaf partitions have been pruned, leaving the dummy root as the sole
entry. Assert this invariant (nrels == 1) and skip the ctid requirement.
Also adjust ExecModifyTable() to tolerate invalid ri_RowIdAttNo for
partitioned tables, which is safe since no rows will be processed in
this case.

Bug: #19099
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19099-e05dcfa022fe553d%40postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 14

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