Add TABLESPACE option to REINDEX

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

Commit: c5b286047cd698021e57a527215b48865fd4ad4e
Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Date: 2021-02-04T05:34:20Z
Releases: 14.0
Add TABLESPACE option to REINDEX

This patch adds the possibility to move indexes to a new tablespace
while rebuilding them.  Both the concurrent and the non-concurrent cases
are supported, and the following set of restrictions apply:
- When using TABLESPACE with a REINDEX command that targets a
partitioned table or index, all the indexes of the leaf partitions are
moved to the new tablespace.  The tablespace references of the non-leaf,
partitioned tables in pg_class.reltablespace are not changed. This
requires an extra ALTER TABLE SET TABLESPACE.
- Any index on a toast table rebuilt as part of a parent table is kept
in its original tablespace.
- The operation is forbidden on system catalogs, including trying to
directly move a toast relation with REINDEX.  This results in an error
if doing REINDEX on a single object.  REINDEX SCHEMA, DATABASE and
SYSTEM skip system relations when TABLESPACE is used.

Author: Alexey Kondratov, Michael Paquier, Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8a8f5f73-00d3-55f8-7583-1375ca8f6a91@postgrespro.ru

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