Modernise pg_hba.conf token processing
The previous coding was ugly, as it marked special tokens as such in the wrong stage, relying on workarounds to figure out if they had been quoted in the original or not. This made it impossible to have specific keywords be recognized as such only in certain positions in HBA lines, for example. Fix by restructuring the parser code so that it remembers whether tokens were quoted or not. This eliminates widespread knowledge of possible known keywords for all fields. Also improve memory management in this area, to use memory contexts that are reset as a whole instead of using retail pfrees; this removes a whole lotta crufty (and probably slow) code. Instead of calling strlen() three times in next_field_expand on the returned token to find out whether there was a comma (and strip it), pass back the info directly from the callee, which is simpler. In passing, update historical artifacts in hba.c API. Authors: Brendan Jurd, Alvaro Herrera Reviewed by Pavel Stehule
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