Fix bit-rot in pg_upgrade's test.sh, and improve documentation.
Doing a cross-version upgrade test with test.sh evidently hasn't been tested since circa 9.2, because the script lacked case branches for old-version servers newer than 9.1. Future-proof that a bit, and clean up breakage induced by our recent drop of V0 function call protocol (namely that oldstyle_length() isn't in the regression suite anymore). (This isn't enough to make the test work perfectly cleanly across versions, but at least it finishes and provides dump files that you can diff manually. One issue I didn't touch is that we might want to execute the "reindex_hash.sql" file in the new DB before dumping it, so that the hash indexes don't vanish from the dump.) Improve the TESTING doc file: put the tl;dr version at the top not the bottom, and bring its explanation of how to run a cross-version test up to speed, since the installcheck target isn't there and won't be resurrected. Improve the comment in the Makefile about why not. In passing, teach .gitignore and "make clean" about a couple more junk output files. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/14058.1496892482@sss.pgh.pa.us
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