I ended up with minutes-long open transactions in the database in prod
which was causing outtages. This is because I thought transactions were
basically free, which is a terrible thing to think. Instead we'll just
open them when we need them.
This is a huge change. I was getting really sick of the split between
nuisance/water tables when more than half of the data they store is
common. I finally bit off the big work of switching it all.
This creates a single unified table, publicreport.report and copies the
existing report data into it. It also ports existing data from the
original tables into the new table.
Along with all of this I also overhauled the system for handling
asynchronous work to use a LISTEN/NOTIFY connection from the database
and a single cache table to avoid ever losing work.
