Fix cardinality estimates for parallel joins.
For a partial path, the cardinality estimate needs to reflect the number of rows we think each worker will see, rather than the total number of rows; otherwise, costing will go wrong. The previous coding got this completely wrong for parallel joins. Unfortunately, this change may destabilize plans for users of 9.6 who have enabled parallel query, but since 9.6 is still fairly new I'm hoping expectations won't be too settled yet. Also, this is really a brown-paper-bag bug, so leaving it unfixed for the entire lifetime of 9.6 seems unwise. Related reports (whose import I initially failed to recognize) by Tomas Vondra and Tom Lane. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoaDxZ5z5Kw_oCQoymNxNoVaTCXzPaODcOuao=CzK8dMZw@mail.gmail.com
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