Fix bogus provolatile/proparallel markings on a few built-in functions.
Richard Yen reported that pg_upgrade failed if the target cluster had force_parallel_mode = on, because binary_upgrade_create_empty_extension() is marked parallel restricted, allowing it to be executed in parallel mode, which complains because it tries to acquire an XID. In general, no function that might try to modify database data should be considered parallel safe or restricted, since execution of it might force XID acquisition. We found several other examples of this mistake. Furthermore, functions that execute user-supplied SQL queries or query fragments, or pull data from user-supplied cursors, had better be marked both volatile and parallel unsafe, because we don't know what the supplied query or cursor might try to do. There were several tsquery and XML functions that had the wrong proparallel marking for this, and some of them were even mislabeled as to volatility. All these bugs are old, dating back to 9.6 for the proparallel mistakes and much further for the provolatile mistakes. We can't force a catversion bump in the back branches, but we can at least ensure that installations initdb'd in future have the right values. Thomas Munro and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=2sNDScSLTfyMYu32Q=ob98ZGW-vM_2oLxinzSABGQ6VA@mail.gmail.com
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