Remove undesirable libpq dependency on stringinfo.c.
Commit c0cb87fb unwisely introduced a dependency on the StringInfo machinery in fe-connect.c. We must not use that in libpq, because it will do a summary exit(1) if it hits OOM, and that is not appropriate behavior for a general-purpose library. The goal of allowing arbitrary line lengths in service files doesn't seem like it's worth a lot of effort, so revert back to the previous method of using a stack-allocated buffer and failing on buffer overflow. This isn't an exact revert though. I kept that patch's refactoring to have a single exit path, as that seems cleaner than having each error path know what to do to clean up. Also, I made the fixed-size buffer 1024 bytes not 256, just to push off the need for an expandable buffer some more. There is more to do here; in particular the lack of any mechanical check for this type of mistake now seems pretty hazardous. But this fix gets us back to the level of robustness we had in v13, anyway. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/daeb22ec6ca8ef61e94d766a9b35fb03cabed38e.camel@vmware.com
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