Move records to the ghost user in a transaction.
- While deleting a user, some of the user's associated records are moved to the ghost user so they aren't deleted. The user is blocked before these records are moved, to prevent the user from creating new records while the migration is happening, and so preventing a data race. - Previously, if the migration failed, the user would _remain_ blocked, which is not the expected behavior. On the other hand, we can't just stick the block + migration into a transaction, because we want the block to be committed before the migration starts (for the data race reason mentioned above). - One solution (implemented in this commit) is to block the user in a parent transaction, migrate the associated records in a nested sub-transaction, and then unblock the user in the parent transaction if the sub-transaction fails.
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