Tom Lane de77775a7b Fix some cases of indirectly casting away const.
Newest versions of gcc+glibc are able to detect cases where code
implicitly casts away const by assigning the result of strchr() or
a similar function applied to a "const char *" value to a target
variable that's just "char *".  This of course creates a hazard of
not getting a compiler warning about scribbling on a string one was
not supposed to, so fixing up such cases is good.

This patch fixes a dozen or so places where we were doing that.
Most are trivial additions of "const" to the target variable,
since no actually-hazardous change was occurring.

Thanks to Bertrand Drouvot for finding a couple more spots than
I had.

This commit back-patches relevant portions of 8f1791c61 and
9f7565c6c into supported branches.  However, there are two
places in ecpg (in v18 only) where a proper fix is more
complicated than seems appropriate for a back-patch.  I opted
to silence those two warnings by adding casts.

Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1324889.1764886170@sss.pgh.pa.us
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3988414.1771950285@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch-through: 14-18
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PostgreSQL Database Management System

This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.

Copyright and license information can be found in the file COPYRIGHT.

General documentation about this version of PostgreSQL can be found at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/. In particular, information about building PostgreSQL from the source code can be found at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/installation.html.

The latest version of this software, and related software, may be obtained at https://www.postgresql.org/download/. For more information look at our web site located at https://www.postgresql.org/.

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