What does this MR do and why?

This MR adds a migration to create p_catalog_resource_component_usages. This table is used to record unique projects that include a component in their pipeline(s) for each day.

This data will later enable users to sort components (or component projects) by popularity. We require a daily metric because we will need to query the number of unique projects for the last 30-days (rolling window).

Note: Our existing analytics instrumentation services don't readily support our requirements for both GitLab.com and self-managed instances. Thus we determined that a custom data table would be the simplest to implement. (Ref: !144932 (comment 1783721915))

Table/model notes:

• Unique on component_id-used_by_project_id-used_date.
  • used_date is the format YYYY-mm-dd. We do not need the time parameters as we're only interested in the number of unique projects per day.
  • The uniqueness validation ensures that redundant data is not inserted into the table.
• The table is partitioned for efficiency.
  • For now we will not truncate the partitions until after 1 year as we may need to keep historical data. We are planning to shorten this duration to 2-3 months as part of a follow up issue: #443681.
  • We'll likely be aggregating historical data by month, so it was determined that monthly would be the most appropriate partitioning strategy.
• The sharding key is set to project_id instead of used_by_project_id because the "owner" of the data should be the project that owns the component rather than the one using it. (See !145881 (comment 1798736129).)
• used_by_project_id does not have an FK constraint because we'll want to keep historical usage data on a component even if the associated used_by_project is deleted.
• We will add further indexes later as needed to better support the queries for batch processing the data in #443381 (closed).

Resolves Part 1 of 2 of Task Create component usage data table and tracking ... (#443380 - closed). Parent issue: #440382 (closed).

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Related to #440382 (closed)