Improve cost estimation for aggregates and window functions.
The previous coding failed to account properly for the costs of evaluating the input expressions of aggregates and window functions, as seen in a recent gripe from Claudio Freire. (I said at the time that it wasn't counting these costs at all; but on closer inspection, it was effectively charging these costs once per output tuple. That is completely wrong for aggregates, and not exactly right for window functions either.) There was also a hard-wired assumption that aggregates and window functions had procost 1.0, which is now fixed to respect the actual cataloged costs. The costing of WindowAgg is still pretty bogus, since it doesn't try to estimate the effects of spilling data to disk, but that seems like a separate issue.
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