1) We will adopt ICU's formatting template for numeric formats
2) We'll roll our own to start with.

#1 makes sense--we have to use something, and since we're linking in
ICU but not postgres it makes sense to use the ICU format. I've some
qualms about it since the numeric formatting seems a bit sub-par (no
star or user-specified fill characters, no CR/DB or parens for
alternate positive/negative notation) but it'll do, I think. At least
it lets us skip nasty locale things.

#2 is in part because we're not linking in ICU at the moment (it
doesn't even build on latest-sarge debian installs) and in part
because I don't want to yank in all of ICU just to be able to turn
45523.4 into "  $45,523.40".

The op will be:

    format Sx, [INP]y, [SP]z

The initial cut will likely not be at all locale-aware, but the docs
will promise that it is.
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