Improve error messages for malformed array input strings.
Make the error messages issued by array_in() uniformly follow the style ERROR: malformed array literal: "actual input string" DETAIL: specific complaint here and rewrite many of the specific complaints to be clearer. The immediate motivation for doing this is a complaint from Josh Berkus that json_to_record() produced an unintelligible error message when dealing with an array item, because it tries to feed the JSON-format array value to array_in(). Really it ought to be smart enough to perform JSON-to-Postgres array conversion, but that's a future feature not a bug fix. In the meantime, this change is something we agreed we could back-patch into 9.4, and it should help de-confuse things a bit.
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