Improve docs about numeric formatting patterns (to_char/to_number).

The explanation about "0" versus "9" format characters was confusing
and arguably wrong; the discussion of sign handling wasn't very good
either.  Notably, while it's accurate to say that "FM" strips leading
zeroes in date/time values, what it really does with numeric values
is to strip *trailing* zeroes, and then only if you wrote "9" rather
than "0".  Per gripes from Erwin Brandstetter.

Discussion: 
https://postgr.es/m/CAGHENJ7jgRbTn6nf48xNZ=fhgl2wq4x8mysuau57f-vq8pu...@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: 
https://postgr.es/m/CAGHENJ45ymd=gocu1vwv9u7gmcr80_5tw0fp9c_gjkbrugm...@mail.gmail.com

Branch
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REL_10_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/09ec0eb7a6e83aea8adb4522e92138974401cce3

Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/func.sgml | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)


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