WT-4033 added an undocumented exclusive_refreshed flag to an alter call. By setting this flag as false, applications can call alter on a table and expect to change app_metadata for a table without taking an exclusive lock. In such a case app_metadata is changed only for the table object, creating an inconsistency with the app_metadata for the underlying index, colgroup and file objects.

This ticket is to track effort in providing a way to fix this inconsistency.