While fiddling with FK tuning, it was useful to be able to enable and
disable the DEFERRED mode of constraints.

That is not currently possible in SQL, so I wrote this patch. Without
this you have to drop and then re-add a constraint, which is
impractical for large tables.

e.g.
CREATE TABLE fktable (id integer, fk integer REFERENCES pktable (id));

ALTER TABLE foo
   ALTER CONSTRAINT fktable_fk_fkey DEFERRED INITIALLY IMMEDIATE;

Includes docs and tests.

Currently works for FKs only. Potentially other constraints can be
supported in future.

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