Improve error messages about misuse of SELECT INTO.
Improve two places in plpgsql, and one in spi.c, where an error message would confusingly tell you that you couldn't use a SELECT query, when what you had written *was* a SELECT query. The actual problem is that you can't use SELECT ... INTO in these contexts, but the messages failed to make that apparent. Special-case SELECT INTO to make these errors more helpful. Also, fix the same spots in plpgsql, as well as several messages in exec_eval_expr(), to not quote the entire complained-of query or expression in the primary error message. That behavior very easily led to violating our message style guideline about keeping the primary error message short and single-line. Also, since the important part of the message was after the inserted text, it could make the real problem very hard to see. We can report the query or expression as the first line of errcontext instead. Per complaint from Roger Mason. Back-patch to v14, since (a) some of these messages are new in v14 and (b) v14's translatable strings are still somewhat in flux. The problem's older than that of course, but I'm hesitant to change the behavior further back. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1914708.1629474624@sss.pgh.pa.us
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