Fix mishandling of column-level SELECT privileges for join aliases.
scanNSItemForColumn, expandNSItemAttrs, and ExpandSingleTable would pass the wrong RTE to markVarForSelectPriv when dealing with a join ParseNamespaceItem: they'd pass the join RTE, when what we need to mark is the base table that the join column came from. The end result was to not fill the base table's selectedCols bitmap correctly, resulting in an understatement of the set of columns that are read by the query. The executor would still insist on there being at least one selectable column; but with a correctly crafted query, a user having SELECT privilege on just one column of a table would nonetheless be allowed to read all its columns. To fix, make markRTEForSelectPriv fetch the correct RTE for itself, ignoring the possibly-mismatched RTE passed by the caller. Later, we'll get rid of some now-unused RTE arguments, but that risks API breaks so we won't do it in released branches. This problem was introduced by commit 9ce77d75, so back-patch to v13 where that came in. Thanks to Sven Klemm for reporting the problem. Security: CVE-2021-20229
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