Cherry-pick all pending PRs into `release-17.0`#13364

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mattlord merged 7 commits intovitessio:release-17.0from planetscale:cherry-pick-backport-on-release-17.0

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Set the number of threads for release notes generation with a flag (vitessio#13273 )
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mysqlctl: Correctly encode database and table names (vitessio#13312 )

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Bug fix: SQL queries erroring with message unknown aggregation random (vitessio#13330 )

arvind-murty
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bugfixes: collection of fixes to bugs found while fuzzing (vitessio#13332 )

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bug: don't always wrap aggregation in coalesce (vitessio#13348 )

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update link for reparenting guide (vitessio#13350 )

Andrew Mason
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Add RestorePosition and RestoredBackupTime as metrics to vttablet (vitessio#13339 )

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