Fix pg_strtof() to not crash on NULL endptr.

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

Commit: 5c64ece8aaf3249181e1ae0babf56419f577b8d0
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2025-03-01T19:22:56Z
Releases: 16.9
Fix pg_strtof() to not crash on NULL endptr.

We had managed not to notice this simple oversight because none
of our calls exercised the case --- until commit 8f427187d.
That led to pg_dump crashing on any platform that uses this code
(currently Cygwin and Mingw).

Even though there's no immediate bug in the back branches, backpatch,
because a non-POSIX-compliant strtof() substitute is trouble waiting
to happen for extensions or future back-patches.

Diagnosed-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/339b3902-4e98-4e31-a744-94e43b7b9292@gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 13

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