Fix realfailN lexer rules to not make assumptions about input format.
The realfail1 and realfail2 backup-prevention rules always returned token type FCONST, ignoring the possibility that what we've scanned is more appropriately described as ICONST. I think that at the time that code was added, it might actually have been safe to not distinguish; but since we started allowing AS-less aliases in SELECT target lists, it's definitely legal to have a number immediately followed by an identifier. In the SELECT case, it seems there's no visible consequence because make_const() will change the type back to integer anyway. But I'm worried that there are other contexts, or will be in future, where it's more important to get the constant's type right. Hence, use process_integer_literal to correctly determine which token type to return. Arguably this is a bug fix, but given the lack of evidence of user-visible problems, I'll refrain from back-patching. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/21364.1542136808@sss.pgh.pa.us
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