Reset relhassubclass upon attaching table as a partition

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

Commit: 2b22543a440d2fa72a1918950d6e67dc1e71b271
Author: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Date: 2024-07-24T10:38:18Z
Releases: 17.0
Reset relhassubclass upon attaching table as a partition

We don't allow inheritance parents as partitions, and have checks to
prevent this; but if a table _was_ in the past an inheritance parents
and all their children are removed, the pg_class.relhassubclass flag
may remain set, which confuses the partition pruning code (most
obviously, it results in an assertion failure; in production builds it
may be worse.)

Fix by resetting relhassubclass on attach.

Backpatch to all supported versions.

Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18550-d5e047e9a897a889@postgresql.org

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