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Make processing of string literals and nested block comments

match the main SQL parser's processing (Tom)

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In particular, the format string in <command>RAISE</> now works

the same as any other string literal, including being subject

to <varname>standard_conforming_strings</>. This change also

fixes other cases in which valid commands would fail when

<varname>standard_conforming_strings</> is on.

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