test(settings): prove the wipe against real Postgres, and state what deletion means

The defect is about rows that survive, so a mocked client proves nothing. The
new integration test seeds a row into every table in the schema, driven by
information_schema and pg_constraint rather than a fixture, runs the wipe and
asks the database what is left. A table added later is seeded and asserted
without anyone remembering to.

It holds all four halves: nothing in the wipe list survives, everything in the
exemption list does, everything reached only by a database cascade is gone,
and the account row comes back reset but able to sign in. A second file pins
the allergy and checkup-reminder deletes actually removing their row.

The reproductive-health note gains a Deletion section. It taught people to
reason carefully about a host being imaged and never said what pressing
delete does; now it says which of the three deletions removes the row and
which only hides it.
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@@ -81,6 +81,31 @@ These are cited as factual public record to explain _why_ the
"who holds the data" question is the one that matters for this category.
HealthLog makes no claim about any other product's current practices.
## What deleting actually does
Worth knowing before you rely on it, because "deleted" means two
different things depending on which button you press.
- **Deleting one cycle or day-log entry** hides it. Every read filters
it out and it is gone from the app, from exports, and from the doctor
report. The row itself stays in PostgreSQL as a tombstone, which is
what lets a phone that was offline at delete time learn that the entry
went away. No job removes cycle tombstones on a schedule, so the row
stays until one of the two actions below.
- **Settings → Delete All Data** removes the rows outright, tombstones
included. Everything the account owns goes except what you sign in
with; the confirmation dialog lists it.
- **Deleting the account** removes the account row, and the database
cascades every record with it.
Two consequences follow, and they matter for the seizure threat model
above. A host imaged while a per-entry deletion is the only deletion you
have performed still holds that entry. And a backup taken before any of
these actions still holds whatever it captured, because a backup is a
copy of a moment. If your reason for deleting is that the data must not
be recoverable from the machine, use one of the two whole-record actions
and rotate your backups.
## Practical hardening
If reproductive-health privacy is the reason you self-host, the