sql.py: Added function_exists()

sql_gen.py: Made Function an alias of Table so that isinstance(..., Function) will always work correctly

sql_gen.py: Added as_Function()

sql.py: put_table(): Lock the output table in EXCLUSIVE mode before getting its pkey so that an ACCESS SHARE lock is not acquired before EXCLUSIVE (causing a lock upgrade and deadlock). This race condition may not have been previously noticeable because pkey() is cached, so calling it doesn't necessarily execute a query or acquire an ACCESS SHARE lock.

sql.py: put_table(): Document that must be run at the beginning of a transaction

sql.py: put_table(), mk_select(): Switched back to having put_table() acquire the EXCLUSIVE locks, but right at the beginning of the transaction, in order to avoid lock upgrades which cause deadlocks

sql.py: with_autocommit(): Only allow turning autocommit on, because the opposite is not meaningful and may conflict with the session-global isolation level

sql.py: DbConn: Set the transaction isolation level to READ COMMITTED using set_isolation_level() so that the isolation level affects all transactions in the session, not just the current one

sql.py: DbConn: Always set the transaction isolation level to READ COMMITTED so that when a table is locked for update, its contents are frozen at that point rather than earlier. This ensures that no concurrent duplicate keys were inserted between the time the table was snapshotted (at the beginning of the transaction for SERIALIZABLE) and the time it was locked for update.

sql.py: put_table(): Removed locking output tables to prevent concurrent duplicate keys because that is now done automatically by mk_select()