Improve reporting of error situations in find_other_exec().

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: 53bc376d089d29cf34b98d1c72444ada4a7d9450
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2012-07-27T23:31:38Z
Releases: 8.3.20
Improve reporting of error situations in find_other_exec().

This function suppressed any stderr output from the called program, which
is unnecessary in the normal case and unhelpful in error cases.  It also
gave a rather opaque message along the lines of "fgets failure: Success"
in case the called program failed to return anything on stdout.  Since
we've seen multiple reports of people not understanding what's wrong when
pg_ctl reports this, improve the message.

Back-patch to all active branches.

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