Ensure ANALYZE phase is not skipped because of canceled truncate.
Patch b19e4250 attempted to preserve existing behavior regarding statistics generation in the case that a truncation attempt was canceled due to lock conflicts. It failed to do this accurately in two regards: (1) autovacuum had previously generated statistics if the truncate attempt failed to initially get the lock rather than having started the attempt, and (2) the VACUUM ANALYZE command had always generated statistics. Both of these changes were unintended, and are reverted by this patch. On review, there seems to be consensus that the previous failure to generate statistics when the truncate was terminated was more an unfortunate consequence of how that effort was previously terminated than a feature we want to keep; so this patch generates statistics even when an autovacuum truncation attempt terminates early. Another unintended change which is kept on the basis that it is an improvement is that when a VACUUM command is truncating, it will the new heuristic for avoiding blocking other processes, rather than keeping an AccessExclusiveLock on the table for however long the truncation takes. Per multiple reports, with some renaming per patch by Jeff Janes. Backpatch to 9.0, where problem was created.
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