Fix interaction of CASE and ArrayCoerceExpr.
An array-type coercion appearing within a CASE that has a constant (after const-folding) test expression was mangled by the planner, causing all the elements of the resulting array to be equal to the coerced value of the CASE's test expression. This is my oversight in commit c12d570f: that changed ArrayCoerceExpr to use a subexpression involving a CaseTestExpr, and I didn't notice that eval_const_expressions needed an adjustment to keep from folding such a CaseTestExpr to a constant when it's inside a suitable CASE. This is another in what's getting to be a depressingly long line of bugs associated with misidentification of the referent of a CaseTestExpr. We're overdue to redesign that mechanism; but any such fix is unlikely to be back-patchable into v11. As a stopgap, fix eval_const_expressions to do what it must here. Also add a bunch of comments pointing out the restrictions and assumptions that are needed to make this work at all. Also fix a related oversight: contain_context_dependent_node() was not aware of the relationship of ArrayCoerceExpr to CaseTestExpr. That was somewhat fail-soft, in that the outcome of a wrong answer would be to prevent optimizations that could have been made, but let's fix it while we're at it. Per bug #15471 from Matt Williams. Back-patch to v11 where the faulty logic came in. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15471-1117f49271989bad@postgresql.org
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