Altering record tables requires invalidating/deleting merged data

[jsstevenson]

Offhand I don't know how this is handled on the DynamoDB side -- I think it just leads to inaccurate/fragmented data -- but for postgres it breaks things quite severely. update calls need to first tear down data that depends on the thing getting replaced.

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