Fix another ancient bug in parsing of BRE-mode regular expressions.

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

Commit: ab208421eeb785fc72a3e7fc1122127029165392
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2021-02-19T03:38:55Z
Releases: 9.6.22
Fix another ancient bug in parsing of BRE-mode regular expressions.

While poking at the regex code, I happened to notice that the bug
squashed in commit afcc8772e had a sibling: next() failed to return
a specific value associated with the '}' token for a "\{m,n\}"
quantifier when parsing in basic RE mode.  Again, this could result
in treating the quantifier as non-greedy, which it never should be in
basic mode.  For that to happen, the last character before "\}" that
sets "nextvalue" would have to set it to zero, or it'd have to have
accidentally been zero from the start.  The failure can be provoked
repeatably with, for example, a bound ending in digit "0".

Like the previous patch, back-patch all the way.

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