Add pg_size_bytes() to parse human-readable size strings.

Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>

Commit: 53874c5228fe16589a4d01b3e1fab3678e0fd8e3
Author: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Date: 2016-02-20T09:57:27Z
Releases: 9.6.0
Add pg_size_bytes() to parse human-readable size strings.

This will parse strings in the format produced by pg_size_pretty() and
return sizes in bytes. This allows queries to be written with clauses
like "pg_total_relation_size(oid) > pg_size_bytes('10 GB')".

Author: Pavel Stehule with various improvements by Vitaly Burovoy
Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAFj8pRD-tGoDKnxdYgECzA4On01_uRqPrwF-8LdkSE-6bDHp0w@mail.gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Vitaly Burovoy, Oleksandr Shulgin, Kyotaro Horiguchi,
    Michael Paquier and Robert Haas

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