Make DDL operations play nicely with Serializable Snapshot Isolation.

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>

Commit: 8f9622bbb3c02b06176760c3ca2d33c5b5f629a7
Author: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
Date: 2011-06-08T11:02:43Z
Releases: 9.1.0
Make DDL operations play nicely with Serializable Snapshot Isolation.

Truncating or dropping a table is treated like deletion of all tuples, and
check for conflicts accordingly. If a table is clustered or rewritten by
ALTER TABLE, all predicate locks on the heap are promoted to relation-level
locks, because the tuple or page ids of any existing tuples will change and
won't be valid after rewriting the table. Arguably ALTER TABLE should be
treated like a mass-UPDATE of every row, but if you e.g change the datatype
of a column, you could also argue that it's just a change to the physical
layout, not a logical change. Reindexing promotes all locks on the index to
relation-level lock on the heap.

Kevin Grittner, with a lot of cosmetic changes by me.

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