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Fix ambiguous string concatenation on CleanupProjectsWithMissingNamespace

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A regression has been reported on at least one environments when the db/post_migrate/20200511083541_cleanup_projects_with_missing_namespace.rb post-migration runs:

== 20200511083541 CleanupProjectsWithMissingNamespace: migrating ==============
rake aborted!
StandardError: An error has occurred, all later migrations canceled:

PG::AmbiguousFunction: ERROR:  operator is not unique: text || integer
LINE 8: name = name || '_' || id,
                           ^
HINT:  Could not choose a best candidate operator. You might need to add explicit type casts.

... ...

(For reference, this migration was introduced with !31675 (merged))

We can not reproduce this behavior on Gitlab's Production replica (where the migration run successfully either way) or a local Postgres 11.7.

String concatenation between a string and a non string is valid since PostgreSQL 8 and text || text || integer should not be ambiguous:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/functions-string.html

| Function                                     | Return Type | Description                                    | Example            | Result     |
|----------------------------------------------|-------------|------------------------------------------------|--------------------|------------|
| string || string                             | text        | String concatenation                           | 'Post' || 'greSQL' | PostgreSQL |
| string || non-string or non-string || string | text        | String concatenation with one non-string input | 'Value: ' || 42    | Value: 42  |

The only case I can think of is that there is some Postgres extension that we don't use in GitLab.com that overloads the || operator and makes the operation ambiguous.

Either way, to solve this issue for all Postgres environments, a fix is introduced that casts the id (integer) to a text to make sure that the concatenation is always between text values.

Related issue: #219582 (closed)

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