Postgres keeps AFTER trigger state for each transaction, because we can have deferred AFTER triggers which will be fired at the end of a transaction. Postgres cleans up this state at the end of transaction.
Postgres processes ON COMMIT triggers after cleaning-up the AFTER trigger states. So if we fire any triggers in ON COMMIT, the AFTER trigger state won't be cleaned-up properly and the transaction state will be left in an inconsistent state, which might result in assertion failure.
So with this commit, we remove foreign keys between columnar metadata tables and enforce constraints between them manually when dropping columnar tables.
Onur Tirtir