Set pg_class.reltuples for partitioned tables

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

Commit: 0e69f705cc1a3df273b38c9883fb5765991e04fe
Author: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Date: 2021-04-09T15:50:33Z
Releases: 14.0
Set pg_class.reltuples for partitioned tables

When commit 0827e8af70f4 added auto-analyze support for partitioned
tables, it included code to obtain reltuples for the partitioned table
as a number of catalog accesses to read pg_class.reltuples for each
partition.  That's not only very inefficient, but also problematic
because autovacuum doesn't hold any locks on any of those tables -- and
doesn't want to.  Replace that code with a read of pg_class.reltuples
for the partitioned table, and make sure ANALYZE and TRUNCATE properly
maintain that value.

I found no code that would be affected by the change of relpages from
zero to non-zero for partitioned tables, and no other code that should
be maintaining it, but if there is, hopefully it'll be an easy fix.

Per buildfarm.

Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1823909.1617862590@sss.pgh.pa.us

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