Garrett Delfosse 378ac91b49 fix: stem chat search terms with the english text search config (#28319)
Chat message search used the `simple` text search config, which folds
case but does no stemming, so `refactor` did not match messages
containing `refactoring`. Message bodies now index and query with the
`english` config, which stems both sides. Titles, PR titles, and all
other filters are unchanged.

Migration `000585` adds a `chat_messages.search_tsv_config` enum column
recording which config produced each stored vector and stamps existing
vectors `'simple'` (a column-only update; vectors and indexes are
untouched, since rewriting `search_tsv` would block message writes on
large tables). The dbpurge sweep gains a bounded
`ReindexStaleChatMessagesSearchTsv` pass that rewrites stale vectors
newest first and stops for the process lifetime once drained. Until a
row is rewritten, `GetChats` matches it with the config that produced
it, so pre-migration exact-form searches keep working during the drain.
Vectors written by old binaries mid rolling upgrade cannot stamp the
config, stay pending, and self-heal on the next upgraded sweep.
Steady-state DB load is unchanged.

The down migration resets `english` vectors to `NULL` so the parent
version's existing sweep rewrites them with `simple`.

Closes
[CODAGT-867](https://linear.app/codercom/issue/CODAGT-867/backend-search-improvements-to-handle-partial-matches)

<details>
<summary>Decision log</summary>

- **`english` stemming over prefix matching.** On a 300k-row corpus a
stemmed lookup is a single GIN entry-tree probe, while `term:*` prefix
matching unions posting lists of every lexeme sharing the prefix (up to
a full scan for short prefixes), is asymmetric, and loses the
`websearch_to_tsquery` phrase/OR/negation UX. `pg_trgm` rejected as a
heavier index with different semantics.
- **Scope to message bodies only** (review). Titles and PR titles keep
their `simple` FTS expressions and indexes, identical to main.
- **Config-versioned queue over migration-time reset** (review). An
unqualified `UPDATE ... SET search_tsv = NULL` rewrites every indexed
row in the migration transaction, and an old replica could backfill
reset rows with `simple` vectors that permanently leave the `search_tsv
IS NULL` queue. The config column makes staleness explicit and both
problems disappear.
- **Enum over `text`** (review) for the config column.
- **Trade-offs.** English stopwords are dropped from message search
(stopword-only queries match no messages); stemming is English-specific;
titles do not stem; prefix matching remains out of scope.

</details>

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