Description of problem:

The problem was that namespace handler on initial sync would delete all ports (because logical port cache where it got lsp UUIDs wasn't populated) and all acls (they were just set to nil). Even though both ports and acls will be re-added by the corresponding handlers, it may cause disruption.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:

1. create a namespace with at least 1 pod and egress firewall in it

2. pick any ovnkube-node pod, find namespace port group UUID in nbdb by external_ids["name"]=<namespace name>, e.g. for "test" namespace

_uuid               : 6142932d-4084-4bc3-bdcb-1990fc71891b
acls                : [ab2be619-1266-41c2-bb1d-1052cb4e1e97, b90a4b4a-ceee-41ee-a801-08c37a9bf3e7, d314fa8d-7b5a-40a5-b3d4-31091d7b9eae]
external_ids        : {name=test}
name                : a18007334074686647077
ports               : [55b700e4-8176-42e7-97a6-8b32a82fefe5, cb71739c-ad6c-4436-8fd6-0643a5417c7d, d8644bf1-6bed-4db7-abf8-7aaab0625324] 

3. restart chosen ovn-k pod

4. check logs on restart that update chosen port group to have zero ports and zero acls

Update operations generated as: [{Op:update Table:Port_Group Row:map[acls:{GoSet:[]} external_ids:{GoMap:map[name:test]} ports:{GoSet:[]}] Rows:[] Columns:[] Mutations:[] Timeout:<nil> Where:[where column _uuid == {6142932d-4084-4bc3-bdcb-1990fc71891b}] Until: Durable:<nil> Comment:<nil> Lock:<nil> UUID: UUIDName:}] 

Actual results:

Expected results:

On restart port group stays the same, no extra update with empty ports and acls is generated

Additional info:

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Affected Platforms:

Is it an

1. internal CI failure 
2. customer issue / SD
3. internal RedHat testing failure

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