Port newsql_connect changes

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[roborivers]

Coding style check: Success ✓.
Cbuild submission: Error ⚠.
Regression testing: Success ✓.

The first 10 failing tests are:
disttxn [core dumped]
insert_lots_ssl_generated
simple_ssl
consumer_non_atomic_default_consumer_generated
api_events
force_writesql_failwrite_generated
ssl_dbname
ssl_prefer
ssl_crl
ssl_prefer_nossl_generated

[roborivers]

Coding style check: Success ✓.
Cbuild submission: Success ✓.
Regression testing: Success ✓.

The first 10 failing tests are:
disttxn [core dumped]
logfill_logput_window_generated
lostwrite
dohsql_leaks
insert_lots_ssl_generated
insert_lots
reco-ddlk-sql
lock_views