Use printf's %m format instead of strerror(errno) in more places

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

Commit: 2c8118ee5d980e11f73683fcda2329c323aa381e
Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Date: 2024-03-12T01:02:54Z
Releases: 17.0
Use printf's %m format instead of strerror(errno) in more places

Most callers of strerror() are removed from the backend code.  The
remaining callers require special handling with a saved errno from a
previous system call.  The frontend code still needs strerror() where
error states need to be handled outside of fprintf.

Note that pg_regress is not changed to use %m as the TAP output may
clobber errno, since those functions call fprintf() and friends before
evaluating the format string.

Support for %m in src/port/snprintf.c has been added in d6c55de1f99a,
hence all the stable branches currently supported include it.

Author: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87sf13jhuw.fsf@wibble.ilmari.org

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