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Background: In the old version, the fields latest and live

revisions were updated always via two separate dmlDML statements.

Every update causes in PostgreSQL (tested to pg 9.6) one more dead

tuple, such that on busy systems, we see 30k + dead tuples per

hour. These dead tuples in turn cause more auto vacuum operations

and can lead to abandoned query plans.

This change can reduce the number of dead tuples on cr_items into

half, by allowing both fields to be set in one operation (namely

content_item__set_live_revision). This function has an optional 4th

argument that can cause this optimization. For legacy applications,

nothing changes.

Btw: since all commonly used applications use the live revision, the

fallback of the latest_revision is unused. One can consider to

remove the cr_revision_latest_tr, at least on on certain

installations.

bump revision to 5.1.9d23

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