There are two Asserts in nodeMergejoin.c that are reachable if
the input data is not in the expected order.  This seems way too
fragile.  Alexander Lakhin reported a case where the assertions
could be triggered with misconfigured foreign-table partitions,
and bitter experience with unstable operating system collation
definitions suggests another easy route to hitting them.  Neither
Assert is in a place where we can't afford one more test-and-branch,
so replace 'em with plain test-and-elog logic.

Per bug #17395.  While the reported symptom is relatively recent,
collation changes could happen anytime, so back-patch to all
supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17395-8c326292078d1a57@postgresql.org