Add a "SQLSTATE-only" error verbosity option to libpq and psql.

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

Commit: 7bac3acab4d5c3f2c35aa3a7bea08411d83fd5bc
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2019-04-04T21:22:02Z
Releases: 12.0
Add a "SQLSTATE-only" error verbosity option to libpq and psql.

This is intended for use mostly in test scripts for external tools,
which could do without cross-PG-version variations in error message
wording.  Of course, the SQLSTATE isn't guaranteed stable either, but
it should be more so than the error message text.

Note: there's a bit of an ABI change for libpq here, but it seems
OK because if somebody compiles against a newer version of libpq-fe.h,
and then tries to pass PQERRORS_SQLSTATE to PQsetErrorVerbosity()
of an older libpq library, it will be accepted and then act like
PQERRORS_DEFAULT, thanks to the way the tests in pqBuildErrorMessage3
have historically been phrased.  That seems acceptable.

Didier Gautheron, reviewed by Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJRYxuKyj4zA+JGVrtx8OWAuBfE-_wN4sUMK4H49EuPed=mOBw@mail.gmail.com

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