Fix TRUNCATE .. CASCADE on partitions

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

Commit: ce054a8cd4f4faf3479050feb5d8fa08545f4c5c
Author: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Date: 2020-02-07T20:09:36Z
Releases: 12.2
Fix TRUNCATE .. CASCADE on partitions

When running TRUNCATE CASCADE on a child of a partitioned table
referenced by another partitioned table, the truncate was not applied to
partitions of the referencing table; this could leave rows violating the
constraint in the referencing partitioned table.  Repair by walking the
pg_constraint chain all the way up to the topmost referencing table.

Note: any partitioned tables containing FKs that reference other
partitioned tables should be checked for possible violating rows, if
TRUNCATE has occurred in partitions of the referenced table.

Reported-by: Christophe Courtois
Author: Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200204183906.115f693e@firost

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