Revert refactoring of hex code to src/common/

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

Commit: 2576dcfb76aa71e4222bac5a3a43f71875bfa9e8
Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Date: 2021-08-19T00:20:13Z
Releases: 15.0
Revert refactoring of hex code to src/common/

This is a combined revert of the following commits:
- c3826f8, a refactoring piece that moved the hex decoding code to
src/common/.  This code was cleaned up by aef8948, as it originally
included no overflow checks in the same way as the base64 routines in
src/common/ used by SCRAM, making it unsafe for its purpose.
- aef8948, a more advanced refactoring of the hex encoding/decoding code
to src/common/ that added sanity checks on the result buffer for hex
decoding and encoding.  As reported by Hans Buschmann, those overflow
checks are expensive, and it is possible to see a performance drop in
the decoding/encoding of bytea or LOs the longer they are.  Simple SQLs
working on large bytea values show a clear difference in perf profile.
- ccf4e27, a cleanup made possible by aef8948.

The reverts of all those commits bring back the performance of hex
decoding and encoding back to what it was in ~13.  Fow now and
post-beta3, this is the simplest option.

Reported-by: Hans Buschmann
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1629039545467.80333@nidsa.net
Backpatch-through: 14

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