Improve dblink error message when remote does not provide it

Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>

Commit: fb0ab06dc4f4c90b85c220418445f4c8f15a59ca
Author: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
Date: 2016-12-21T23:51:40Z
Releases: 9.2.20
Improve dblink error message when remote does not provide it

When dblink or postgres_fdw detects an error on the remote side of the
connection, it will try to construct a local error message as best it
can using libpq's PQresultErrorField(). When no primary message is
available, it was bailing out with an unhelpful "unknown error". Make
that message better and more style guide compliant. Per discussion
on hackers.

Backpatch to 9.2 except postgres_fdw which didn't exist before 9.3.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19872.1482338965%40sss.pgh.pa.us

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