Get rid of bogus dependency on typcategory in to_json() and friends.
These functions were relying on typcategory to identify arrays and composites, which is not reliable and not the normal way to do it. Using typcategory to identify boolean, numeric types, and json itself is also pretty questionable, though the code in those cases didn't seem to be at risk of anything worse than wrong output. Instead, use the standard lsyscache functions to identify arrays and composites, and rely on a direct check of the type OID for the other cases. In HEAD, also be sure to look through domains so that a domain is treated the same as its base type for conversions to JSON. However, this is a small behavioral change; given the lack of field complaints, we won't back-patch it. In passing, refactor so that there's only one copy of the code that decides which conversion strategy to apply, not multiple copies that could (and have) gotten out of sync.
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