Support negative indexes in split_part().

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

Commit: ec0294fb2c8287fd673c57701cdcf6c6396b2f60
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2020-11-13T18:49:48Z
Releases: 14.0
Support negative indexes in split_part().

This provides a handy way to get, say, the last field of the string.
Use of a negative index in this way has precedent in the nearby
left() and right() functions.

The implementation scans the string twice when N < -1, but it seems
likely that N = -1 will be the huge majority of actual use cases,
so I'm not really excited about adding complexity to avoid that.

Nikhil Benesch, reviewed by Jacob Champion; cosmetic tweakage by me

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