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Revert "toy around with different ways to shut down"
This reverts commit d359d88f51.
2026-05-03 22:30:37 +00:00 · 2024-07-02 17:33:30 +00:00 · 2024-07-02 17:33:30 +00:00 · 2024-07-02 17:32:19 +00:00 · 2024-07-01 17:04:39 +00:00 · 2024-07-01 16:44:17 +00:00
248 changed files with 9512 additions and 6306 deletions
--- a/.dockerignore
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 !patches/
 !pgxn/
 !proxy/
-!s3_scrubber/
+!storage_scrubber/
 !safekeeper/
 !storage_broker/
 !storage_controller/
--- a/.github/actions/allure-report-generate/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/allure-report-generate/action.yml
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ runs:
      uses: actions/cache@v4
      with:
        path: ~/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs
-        key: v2-${{ runner.os }}-python-deps-${{ hashFiles('poetry.lock') }}
+        key: v2-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-python-deps-${{ hashFiles('poetry.lock') }}

    - name: Store Allure test stat in the DB (new)
      if: ${{ !cancelled() && inputs.store-test-results-into-db == 'true' }}
--- a/.github/actions/download/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/download/action.yml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ runs:
        TARGET: ${{ inputs.path }}
        ARCHIVE: /tmp/downloads/${{ inputs.name }}.tar.zst
        SKIP_IF_DOES_NOT_EXIST: ${{ inputs.skip-if-does-not-exist }}
-        PREFIX: artifacts/${{ inputs.prefix || format('{0}/{1}', github.run_id, github.run_attempt) }}
+        PREFIX: artifacts/${{ inputs.prefix || format('{0}/{1}/{2}', github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha, github.run_id, github.run_attempt) }}
      run: |
        BUCKET=neon-github-public-dev
        FILENAME=$(basename $ARCHIVE)
--- a/.github/actions/run-python-test-set/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/run-python-test-set/action.yml
@@ -56,14 +56,14 @@ runs:
      if: inputs.build_type != 'remote'
      uses: ./.github/actions/download
      with:
-        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ inputs.build_type }}-artifact
+        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ inputs.build_type }}-artifact
        path: /tmp/neon

    - name: Download Neon binaries for the previous release
      if: inputs.build_type != 'remote'
      uses: ./.github/actions/download
      with:
-        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ inputs.build_type }}-artifact
+        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ inputs.build_type }}-artifact
        path: /tmp/neon-previous
        prefix: latest

@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ runs:
      uses: actions/cache@v4
      with:
        path: ~/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs
-        key: v2-${{ runner.os }}-python-deps-${{ hashFiles('poetry.lock') }}
+        key: v2-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-python-deps-${{ hashFiles('poetry.lock') }}

    - name: Install Python deps
      shell: bash -euxo pipefail {0}
@@ -183,8 +183,7 @@ runs:

        # Run the tests.
        #
-        # The junit.xml file allows CI tools to display more fine-grained test information
-        # in its "Tests" tab in the results page.
+        # --alluredir saves test results in Allure format (in a specified directory)
        # --verbose prints name of each test (helpful when there are
        # multiple tests in one file)
        # -rA prints summary in the end
@@ -193,7 +192,6 @@ runs:
        #
        mkdir -p $TEST_OUTPUT/allure/results
        "${cov_prefix[@]}" ./scripts/pytest \
-          --junitxml=$TEST_OUTPUT/junit.xml \
          --alluredir=$TEST_OUTPUT/allure/results \
          --tb=short \
          --verbose \
--- a/.github/actions/upload/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/upload/action.yml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ inputs:
    description: "A directory or file to upload"
    required: true
  prefix:
-    description: "S3 prefix. Default is '${GITHUB_RUN_ID}/${GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT}'"
+    description: "S3 prefix. Default is '${GITHUB_SHA}/${GITHUB_RUN_ID}/${GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT}'"
    required: false

 runs:
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ runs:
      env:
        SOURCE: ${{ inputs.path }}
        ARCHIVE: /tmp/uploads/${{ inputs.name }}.tar.zst
-        PREFIX: artifacts/${{ inputs.prefix || format('{0}/{1}', github.run_id, github.run_attempt) }}
+        PREFIX: artifacts/${{ inputs.prefix || format('{0}/{1}/{2}', github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha, github.run_id , github.run_attempt) }}
      run: |
        BUCKET=neon-github-public-dev
        FILENAME=$(basename $ARCHIVE)
--- a/.github/workflows/actionlint.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/actionlint.yml
@@ -36,15 +36,16 @@ jobs:
          fail_on_error: true
          filter_mode: nofilter
          level: error
-      - run: |
+
+      - name: Disallow 'ubuntu-latest' runners
+        run: |
          PAT='^\s*runs-on:.*-latest'
-          if grep -ERq $PAT .github/workflows
-          then
+          if grep -ERq $PAT .github/workflows; then
            grep -ERl $PAT .github/workflows |\
            while read -r f
            do
              l=$(grep -nE $PAT .github/workflows/release.yml | awk -F: '{print $1}' | head -1)
-              echo "::error file=$f,line=$l::Please, do not use ubuntu-latest images to run on, use LTS instead."
+              echo "::error file=$f,line=$l::Please use 'ubuntu-22.04' instead of 'ubuntu-latest'"
            done
            exit 1
          fi
--- a/.github/workflows/benchmarking.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/benchmarking.yml
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ jobs:
    - name: Download Neon artifact
      uses: ./.github/actions/download
      with:
-        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-release-artifact
+        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-release-artifact
        path: /tmp/neon/
        prefix: latest

@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ jobs:
        # Set --sparse-ordering option of pytest-order plugin
        # to ensure tests are running in order of appears in the file.
        # It's important for test_perf_pgbench.py::test_pgbench_remote_* tests
-        extra_params: -m remote_cluster --sparse-ordering --timeout 5400 --ignore test_runner/performance/test_perf_olap.py
+        extra_params: -m remote_cluster --sparse-ordering --timeout 5400 --ignore test_runner/performance/test_perf_olap.py --ignore test_runner/performance/test_perf_pgvector_queries.py
      env:
        BENCHMARK_CONNSTR: ${{ steps.create-neon-project.outputs.dsn }}
        VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN }}"
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ jobs:
    - name: Download Neon artifact
      uses: ./.github/actions/download
      with:
-        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-release-artifact
+        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-release-artifact
        path: /tmp/neon/
        prefix: latest

@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ jobs:
    - name: Download Neon artifact
      uses: ./.github/actions/download
      with:
-        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-release-artifact
+        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-release-artifact
        path: /tmp/neon/
        prefix: latest

@@ -410,14 +410,14 @@ jobs:
        PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR: "${{ secrets.PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR }}"
        BENCHMARK_CONNSTR: ${{ steps.set-up-connstr.outputs.connstr }}

-    - name: Benchmark pgvector hnsw queries
+    - name: Benchmark pgvector queries
      uses: ./.github/actions/run-python-test-set
      with:
        build_type: ${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}
-        test_selection: performance
+        test_selection: performance/test_perf_pgvector_queries.py
        run_in_parallel: false
        save_perf_report: ${{ env.SAVE_PERF_REPORT }}
-        extra_params: -m remote_cluster --timeout 21600 -k test_pgbench_remote_pgvector
+        extra_params: -m remote_cluster --timeout 21600 
      env:
        BENCHMARK_CONNSTR: ${{ steps.set-up-connstr.outputs.connstr }}
        VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN }}"
@@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ jobs:
    - name: Download Neon artifact
      uses: ./.github/actions/download
      with:
-        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-release-artifact
+        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-release-artifact
        path: /tmp/neon/
        prefix: latest

@@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ jobs:
    - name: Download Neon artifact
      uses: ./.github/actions/download
      with:
-        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-release-artifact
+        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-release-artifact
        path: /tmp/neon/
        prefix: latest

@@ -677,7 +677,7 @@ jobs:
    - name: Download Neon artifact
      uses: ./.github/actions/download
      with:
-        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-release-artifact
+        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-release-artifact
        path: /tmp/neon/
        prefix: latest

--- a/.github/workflows/build-build-tools-image.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-build-tools-image.yml
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ jobs:
  check-image:
    uses: ./.github/workflows/check-build-tools-image.yml

-  # This job uses older version of GitHub Actions because it's run on gen2 runners, which don't support node 20 (for newer versions)
  build-image:
    needs: [ check-image ]
    if: needs.check-image.outputs.found == 'false'
@@ -55,7 +54,7 @@ jobs:
            exit 1
          fi

-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      # Use custom DOCKER_CONFIG directory to avoid conflicts with default settings
      # The default value is ~/.docker
@@ -79,7 +78,7 @@ jobs:
          pull: true
          file: Dockerfile.build-tools
          cache-from: type=registry,ref=neondatabase/build-tools:cache-${{ matrix.arch }}
-          cache-to: type=registry,ref=neondatabase/build-tools:cache-${{ matrix.arch }},mode=max
+          cache-to: ${{ github.ref_name == 'main' && format('type=registry,ref=neondatabase/build-tools:cache-{0},mode=max', matrix.arch) || '' }}
          tags: neondatabase/build-tools:${{ inputs.image-tag }}-${{ matrix.arch }}

      - name: Remove custom docker config directory
--- a/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ jobs:
        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
          path: ~/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs
-          key: v2-${{ runner.os }}-python-deps-${{ hashFiles('poetry.lock') }}
+          key: v2-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-python-deps-${{ hashFiles('poetry.lock') }}

      - name: Install Python deps
        run: ./scripts/pysync
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ jobs:
 #            !~/.cargo/registry/src
 #            ~/.cargo/git/
 #            target/
-#          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-cargo-clippy-${{ hashFiles('rust-toolchain.toml') }}-${{ hashFiles('Cargo.lock') }}
+#          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-cargo-clippy-${{ hashFiles('rust-toolchain.toml') }}-${{ hashFiles('Cargo.lock') }}

      # Some of our rust modules use FFI and need those to be checked
      - name: Get postgres headers
@@ -291,29 +291,29 @@ jobs:
 #            target/
 #          # Fall back to older versions of the key, if no cache for current Cargo.lock was found
 #          key: |
-#            v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ matrix.build_type }}-cargo-${{ hashFiles('rust-toolchain.toml') }}-${{ hashFiles('Cargo.lock') }}
-#            v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ matrix.build_type }}-cargo-${{ hashFiles('rust-toolchain.toml') }}-
+#            v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ matrix.build_type }}-cargo-${{ hashFiles('rust-toolchain.toml') }}-${{ hashFiles('Cargo.lock') }}
+#            v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ matrix.build_type }}-cargo-${{ hashFiles('rust-toolchain.toml') }}-

      - name: Cache postgres v14 build
        id: cache_pg_14
        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
          path: pg_install/v14
-          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ matrix.build_type }}-pg-${{ steps.pg_v14_rev.outputs.pg_rev }}-${{ hashFiles('Makefile') }}
+          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ matrix.build_type }}-pg-${{ steps.pg_v14_rev.outputs.pg_rev }}-${{ hashFiles('Makefile', 'Dockerfile.build-tools') }}

      - name: Cache postgres v15 build
        id: cache_pg_15
        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
          path: pg_install/v15
-          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ matrix.build_type }}-pg-${{ steps.pg_v15_rev.outputs.pg_rev }}-${{ hashFiles('Makefile') }}
+          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ matrix.build_type }}-pg-${{ steps.pg_v15_rev.outputs.pg_rev }}-${{ hashFiles('Makefile', 'Dockerfile.build-tools') }}

      - name: Cache postgres v16 build
        id: cache_pg_16
        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
          path: pg_install/v16
-          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ matrix.build_type }}-pg-${{ steps.pg_v16_rev.outputs.pg_rev }}-${{ hashFiles('Makefile') }}
+          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ matrix.build_type }}-pg-${{ steps.pg_v16_rev.outputs.pg_rev }}-${{ hashFiles('Makefile', 'Dockerfile.build-tools') }}

      - name: Build postgres v14
        if: steps.cache_pg_14.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
@@ -337,34 +337,8 @@ jobs:
        run: |
          ${cov_prefix} mold -run cargo build $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_FEATURES --bins --tests

-      - name: Run rust tests
-        env:
-          NEXTEST_RETRIES: 3
-        run: |
-          #nextest does not yet support running doctests
-          cargo test --doc $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_FEATURES
-
-          for io_engine in std-fs tokio-epoll-uring ; do
-            NEON_PAGESERVER_UNIT_TEST_VIRTUAL_FILE_IOENGINE=$io_engine ${cov_prefix} cargo nextest run $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_FEATURES
-          done
-
-          # Run separate tests for real S3
-          export ENABLE_REAL_S3_REMOTE_STORAGE=nonempty
-          export REMOTE_STORAGE_S3_BUCKET=neon-github-ci-tests
-          export REMOTE_STORAGE_S3_REGION=eu-central-1
-          # Avoid `$CARGO_FEATURES` since there's no `testing` feature in the e2e tests now
-          ${cov_prefix} cargo nextest run $CARGO_FLAGS -E 'package(remote_storage)' -E 'test(test_real_s3)'
-
-          # Run separate tests for real Azure Blob Storage
-          # XXX: replace region with `eu-central-1`-like region
-          export ENABLE_REAL_AZURE_REMOTE_STORAGE=y
-          export AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT="${{ secrets.AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT_DEV }}"
-          export AZURE_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY="${{ secrets.AZURE_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY_DEV }}"
-          export REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_CONTAINER="${{ vars.REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_CONTAINER }}"
-          export REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_REGION="${{ vars.REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_REGION }}"
-          # Avoid `$CARGO_FEATURES` since there's no `testing` feature in the e2e tests now
-          ${cov_prefix} cargo nextest run $CARGO_FLAGS -E 'package(remote_storage)' -E 'test(test_real_azure)'
-
+      # Do install *before* running rust tests because they might recompile the
+      # binaries with different features/flags.
      - name: Install rust binaries
        run: |
          # Install target binaries
@@ -405,13 +379,39 @@ jobs:
            done
          fi

+      - name: Run rust tests
+        env:
+          NEXTEST_RETRIES: 3
+        run: |
+          #nextest does not yet support running doctests
+          cargo test --doc $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_FEATURES
+
+          for io_engine in std-fs tokio-epoll-uring ; do
+            NEON_PAGESERVER_UNIT_TEST_VIRTUAL_FILE_IOENGINE=$io_engine ${cov_prefix} cargo nextest run $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_FEATURES
+          done
+
+          # Run separate tests for real S3
+          export ENABLE_REAL_S3_REMOTE_STORAGE=nonempty
+          export REMOTE_STORAGE_S3_BUCKET=neon-github-ci-tests
+          export REMOTE_STORAGE_S3_REGION=eu-central-1
+          ${cov_prefix} cargo nextest run $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_FEATURES -E 'package(remote_storage)' -E 'test(test_real_s3)'
+
+          # Run separate tests for real Azure Blob Storage
+          # XXX: replace region with `eu-central-1`-like region
+          export ENABLE_REAL_AZURE_REMOTE_STORAGE=y
+          export AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT="${{ secrets.AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT_DEV }}"
+          export AZURE_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY="${{ secrets.AZURE_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY_DEV }}"
+          export REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_CONTAINER="${{ vars.REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_CONTAINER }}"
+          export REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_REGION="${{ vars.REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_REGION }}"
+          ${cov_prefix} cargo nextest run $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_FEATURES -E 'package(remote_storage)' -E 'test(test_real_azure)'
+
      - name: Install postgres binaries
        run: cp -a pg_install /tmp/neon/pg_install

      - name: Upload Neon artifact
        uses: ./.github/actions/upload
        with:
-          name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ matrix.build_type }}-artifact
+          name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ matrix.build_type }}-artifact
          path: /tmp/neon

      # XXX: keep this after the binaries.list is formed, so the coverage can properly work later
@@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ jobs:
        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
          path: ~/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs
-          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-python-deps-${{ hashFiles('poetry.lock') }}
+          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-python-deps-${{ hashFiles('poetry.lock') }}

      - name: Install Python deps
        run: ./scripts/pysync
@@ -639,7 +639,7 @@ jobs:
      - name: Get Neon artifact
        uses: ./.github/actions/download
        with:
-          name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ matrix.build_type }}-artifact
+          name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ matrix.build_type }}-artifact
          path: /tmp/neon

      - name: Get coverage artifact
@@ -763,7 +763,7 @@ jobs:
          pull: true
          file: Dockerfile
          cache-from: type=registry,ref=neondatabase/neon:cache-${{ matrix.arch }}
-          cache-to: type=registry,ref=neondatabase/neon:cache-${{ matrix.arch }},mode=max
+          cache-to: ${{ github.ref_name == 'main' && format('type=registry,ref=neondatabase/neon:cache-{0},mode=max', matrix.arch) || '' }}
          tags: |
            neondatabase/neon:${{ needs.tag.outputs.build-tag }}-${{ matrix.arch }}

@@ -855,10 +855,10 @@ jobs:
          pull: true
          file: Dockerfile.compute-node
          cache-from: type=registry,ref=neondatabase/compute-node-${{ matrix.version }}:cache-${{ matrix.arch }}
-          cache-to: type=registry,ref=neondatabase/compute-node-${{ matrix.version }}:cache-${{ matrix.arch }},mode=max
+          cache-to: ${{ github.ref_name == 'main' && format('type=registry,ref=neondatabase/compute-node-{0}:cache-{1},mode=max', matrix.version, matrix.arch) || '' }}
          tags: |
            neondatabase/compute-node-${{ matrix.version }}:${{ needs.tag.outputs.build-tag }}-${{ matrix.arch }}
-      
+
      - name: Build neon extensions test image
        if: matrix.version == 'v16'
        uses: docker/build-push-action@v5
@@ -875,7 +875,7 @@ jobs:
          file: Dockerfile.compute-node
          target: neon-pg-ext-test
          cache-from: type=registry,ref=neondatabase/neon-test-extensions-${{ matrix.version }}:cache-${{ matrix.arch }}
-          cache-to: type=registry,ref=neondatabase/neon-test-extensions-${{ matrix.version }}:cache-${{ matrix.arch }},mode=max
+          cache-to: ${{ github.ref_name == 'main' && format('type=registry,ref=neondatabase/neon-test-extensions-{0}:cache-{1},mode=max', matrix.version, matrix.arch) || '' }}
          tags: |
            neondatabase/neon-test-extensions-${{ matrix.version }}:${{needs.tag.outputs.build-tag}}-${{ matrix.arch }}

@@ -965,7 +965,7 @@ jobs:

    steps:
      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v1
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

@@ -1023,6 +1023,18 @@ jobs:
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

+      # Use custom DOCKER_CONFIG directory to avoid conflicts with default settings
+      # The default value is ~/.docker
+      - name: Set custom docker config directory
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p .docker-custom
+          echo DOCKER_CONFIG=$(pwd)/.docker-custom >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
+      - uses: docker/login-action@v3
+        with:
+          username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+          password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
+
      # `neondatabase/neon` contains multiple binaries, all of them use the same input for the version into the same version formatting library.
      # Pick pageserver as currently the only binary with extra "version" features printed in the string to verify.
      # Regular pageserver version string looks like
@@ -1057,6 +1069,11 @@ jobs:
          docker compose -f ./docker-compose/docker-compose.yml logs || 0
          docker compose -f ./docker-compose/docker-compose.yml down

+      - name: Remove custom docker config directory
+        if: always()
+        run: |
+          rm -rf .docker-custom
+
  promote-images:
    needs: [ check-permissions, tag, test-images, vm-compute-node-image ]
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
@@ -1070,7 +1087,8 @@ jobs:
          username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
          password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}

-      - uses: docker/login-action@v3
+      - name: Login to dev ECR
+        uses: docker/login-action@v3
        with:
          registry: 369495373322.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com
          username: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_DEV }}
@@ -1101,6 +1119,24 @@ jobs:
                                                 $repo/vm-compute-node-${version}:${{ needs.tag.outputs.build-tag }}
            done
          done
+          docker buildx imagetools create -t neondatabase/neon-test-extensions-v16:latest \
+                                             neondatabase/neon-test-extensions-v16:${{ needs.tag.outputs.build-tag }}
+
+      - name: Login to prod ECR
+        uses: docker/login-action@v3
+        if: github.ref_name == 'release'|| github.ref_name == 'release-proxy'
+        with:
+          registry: 093970136003.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com
+          username: ${{ secrets.PROD_GHA_RUNNER_LIMITED_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
+          password: ${{ secrets.PROD_GHA_RUNNER_LIMITED_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
+
+      - name: Copy all images to prod ECR
+        if: github.ref_name == 'release'|| github.ref_name == 'release-proxy'
+        run: |
+          for image in neon compute-tools {vm-,}compute-node-{v14,v15,v16}; do
+            docker buildx imagetools create -t 093970136003.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/${image}:${{ needs.tag.outputs.build-tag }} \
+                                               369495373322.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/${image}:${{ needs.tag.outputs.build-tag }}
+          done

  trigger-custom-extensions-build-and-wait:
    needs: [ check-permissions, tag ]
@@ -1209,6 +1245,7 @@ jobs:
        run: |
          if [[ "$GITHUB_REF_NAME" == "main" ]]; then
            gh workflow --repo neondatabase/aws run deploy-dev.yml --ref main -f branch=main -f dockerTag=${{needs.tag.outputs.build-tag}} -f deployPreprodRegion=false
+            gh workflow --repo neondatabase/azure run deploy.yml -f dockerTag=${{needs.tag.outputs.build-tag}}
          elif [[ "$GITHUB_REF_NAME" == "release" ]]; then
            gh workflow --repo neondatabase/aws run deploy-dev.yml --ref main \
              -f deployPgSniRouter=false \
@@ -1303,7 +1340,7 @@ jobs:
          # Update Neon artifact for the release (reuse already uploaded artifact)
          for build_type in debug release; do
            OLD_PREFIX=artifacts/${GITHUB_RUN_ID}
-            FILENAME=neon-${{ runner.os }}-${build_type}-artifact.tar.zst
+            FILENAME=neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${build_type}-artifact.tar.zst

            S3_KEY=$(aws s3api list-objects-v2 --bucket ${BUCKET} --prefix ${OLD_PREFIX} | jq -r '.Contents[]?.Key' | grep ${FILENAME} | sort --version-sort | tail -1 || true)
            if [ -z "${S3_KEY}" ]; then
--- a/.github/workflows/check-build-tools-image.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/check-build-tools-image.yml
@@ -25,26 +25,17 @@ jobs:
      found: ${{ steps.check-image.outputs.found }}

    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
      - name: Get build-tools image tag for the current commit
        id: get-build-tools-tag
        env:
-          # Usually, for COMMIT_SHA, we use `github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha`, but here, even for PRs,
-          # we want to use `github.sha` i.e. point to a phantom merge commit to determine the image tag correctly.
-          COMMIT_SHA: ${{ github.sha }}
-          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          IMAGE_TAG: |
+            ${{ hashFiles('Dockerfile.build-tools',
+                          '.github/workflows/check-build-tools-image.yml',
+                          '.github/workflows/build-build-tools-image.yml') }}
        run: |
-          LAST_BUILD_TOOLS_SHA=$(
-            gh api \
-              -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
-              -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
-              --method GET \
-              --field path=Dockerfile.build-tools \
-              --field sha=${COMMIT_SHA} \
-              --field per_page=1 \
-              --jq ".[0].sha" \
-              "/repos/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}/commits"
-          )
-          echo "image-tag=${LAST_BUILD_TOOLS_SHA}" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          echo "image-tag=${IMAGE_TAG}" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT

      - name: Check if such tag found in the registry
        id: check-image
--- a/.github/workflows/pg_clients.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg_clients.yml
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ jobs:
      uses: actions/cache@v4
      with:
        path: ~/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs
-        key: v2-${{ runner.os }}-python-deps-ubunutu-latest-${{ hashFiles('poetry.lock') }}
+        key: v2-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-python-deps-ubunutu-latest-${{ hashFiles('poetry.lock') }}

    - name: Install Python deps
      shell: bash -euxo pipefail {0}
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ jobs:
      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
      with:
        retention-days: 7
-        name: python-test-pg_clients-${{ runner.os }}-stage-logs
+        name: python-test-pg_clients-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-stage-logs
        path: ${{ env.TEST_OUTPUT }}

    - name: Post to a Slack channel
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -52,13 +52,15 @@ jobs:
      env:
        GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
      run: |
+        TITLE="Storage & Compute release ${RELEASE_DATE}"
+
        cat << EOF > body.md
-          ## Storage & Compute release ${RELEASE_DATE}
+          ## ${TITLE}

          **Please merge this Pull Request using 'Create a merge commit' button**
        EOF

-        gh pr create --title "Release ${RELEASE_DATE}" \
+        gh pr create --title "${TITLE}" \
                     --body-file "body.md" \
                     --head "${RELEASE_BRANCH}" \
                     --base "release"
@@ -91,13 +93,15 @@ jobs:
      env:
        GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
      run: |
+        TITLE="Proxy release ${RELEASE_DATE}"
+
        cat << EOF > body.md
-          ## Proxy release ${RELEASE_DATE}
+          ## ${TITLE}

          **Please merge this Pull Request using 'Create a merge commit' button**
        EOF

-        gh pr create --title "Proxy release ${RELEASE_DATE}" \
+        gh pr create --title "${TITLE}" \
                     --body-file "body.md" \
                     --head "${RELEASE_BRANCH}" \
                     --base "release-proxy"
--- a/.neon_clippy_args
+++ b/.neon_clippy_args
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # * `-A unknown_lints` – do not warn about unknown lint suppressions
 #                        that people with newer toolchains might use
 # * `-D warnings`      - fail on any warnings (`cargo` returns non-zero exit status)
-export CLIPPY_COMMON_ARGS="--locked --workspace --all-targets -- -A unknown_lints -D warnings"
+# * `-D clippy::todo`  - don't let `todo!()` slip into `main`
+export CLIPPY_COMMON_ARGS="--locked --workspace --all-targets -- -A unknown_lints -D warnings -D clippy::todo"
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1014,6 +1014,9 @@ name = "camino"
 version = "1.1.6"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "c59e92b5a388f549b863a7bea62612c09f24c8393560709a54558a9abdfb3b9c"
+dependencies = [
+ "serde",
+]

 [[package]]
 name = "camino-tempfile"
@@ -1243,7 +1246,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "tokio-postgres",
 "tokio-stream",
 "tokio-util",
- "toml_edit",
+ "toml_edit 0.19.10",
 "tracing",
 "tracing-opentelemetry",
 "tracing-subscriber",
@@ -1359,8 +1362,8 @@ dependencies = [
 "tokio",
 "tokio-postgres",
 "tokio-util",
- "toml",
- "toml_edit",
+ "toml 0.7.4",
+ "toml_edit 0.19.10",
 "tracing",
 "url",
 "utils",
@@ -1666,9 +1669,9 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "diesel"
-version = "2.1.4"
+version = "2.2.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "62c6fcf842f17f8c78ecf7c81d75c5ce84436b41ee07e03f490fbb5f5a8731d8"
+checksum = "62d6dcd069e7b5fe49a302411f759d4cf1cf2c27fe798ef46fb8baefc053dd2b"
 dependencies = [
 "bitflags 2.4.1",
 "byteorder",
@@ -1681,11 +1684,12 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "diesel_derives"
-version = "2.1.2"
+version = "2.2.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "ef8337737574f55a468005a83499da720f20c65586241ffea339db9ecdfd2b44"
+checksum = "59de76a222c2b8059f789cbe07afbfd8deb8c31dd0bc2a21f85e256c1def8259"
 dependencies = [
 "diesel_table_macro_syntax",
+ "dsl_auto_type",
 "proc-macro2",
 "quote",
 "syn 2.0.52",
@@ -1693,9 +1697,9 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "diesel_migrations"
-version = "2.1.0"
+version = "2.2.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "6036b3f0120c5961381b570ee20a02432d7e2d27ea60de9578799cf9156914ac"
+checksum = "8a73ce704bad4231f001bff3314d91dce4aba0770cee8b233991859abc15c1f6"
 dependencies = [
 "diesel",
 "migrations_internals",
@@ -1704,9 +1708,9 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "diesel_table_macro_syntax"
-version = "0.1.0"
+version = "0.2.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "fc5557efc453706fed5e4fa85006fe9817c224c3f480a34c7e5959fd700921c5"
+checksum = "209c735641a413bc68c4923a9d6ad4bcb3ca306b794edaa7eb0b3228a99ffb25"
 dependencies = [
 "syn 2.0.52",
 ]
@@ -1742,6 +1746,20 @@ dependencies = [
 "const-random",
 ]

+[[package]]
+name = "dsl_auto_type"
+version = "0.1.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0892a17df262a24294c382f0d5997571006e7a4348b4327557c4ff1cd4a8bccc"
+dependencies = [
+ "darling",
+ "either",
+ "heck 0.5.0",
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn 2.0.52",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "dyn-clone"
 version = "1.0.14"
@@ -3081,19 +3099,19 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "migrations_internals"
-version = "2.1.0"
+version = "2.2.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "0f23f71580015254b020e856feac3df5878c2c7a8812297edd6c0a485ac9dada"
+checksum = "fd01039851e82f8799046eabbb354056283fb265c8ec0996af940f4e85a380ff"
 dependencies = [
 "serde",
- "toml",
+ "toml 0.8.14",
 ]

 [[package]]
 name = "migrations_macros"
-version = "2.1.0"
+version = "2.2.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "cce3325ac70e67bbab5bd837a31cae01f1a6db64e0e744a33cb03a543469ef08"
+checksum = "ffb161cc72176cb37aa47f1fc520d3ef02263d67d661f44f05d05a079e1237fd"
 dependencies = [
 "migrations_internals",
 "proc-macro2",
@@ -3573,7 +3591,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "thiserror",
 "tokio",
 "tokio-util",
- "toml_edit",
+ "toml_edit 0.19.10",
 "utils",
 "workspace_hack",
 ]
@@ -3656,7 +3674,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "tokio-stream",
 "tokio-tar",
 "tokio-util",
- "toml_edit",
+ "toml_edit 0.19.10",
 "tracing",
 "twox-hash",
 "url",
@@ -4002,7 +4020,7 @@ dependencies = [
 [[package]]
 name = "postgres"
 version = "0.19.4"
-source = "git+https://github.com/neondatabase/rust-postgres.git?branch=neon#20031d7a9ee1addeae6e0968e3899ae6bf01cee2"
+source = "git+https://github.com/neondatabase/rust-postgres.git?branch=neon#cff6927e4f58b1af6ecc2ee7279df1f2ff537295"
 dependencies = [
 "bytes",
 "fallible-iterator",
@@ -4015,7 +4033,7 @@ dependencies = [
 [[package]]
 name = "postgres-protocol"
 version = "0.6.4"
-source = "git+https://github.com/neondatabase/rust-postgres.git?branch=neon#20031d7a9ee1addeae6e0968e3899ae6bf01cee2"
+source = "git+https://github.com/neondatabase/rust-postgres.git?branch=neon#cff6927e4f58b1af6ecc2ee7279df1f2ff537295"
 dependencies = [
 "base64 0.20.0",
 "byteorder",
@@ -4034,7 +4052,7 @@ dependencies = [
 [[package]]
 name = "postgres-types"
 version = "0.2.4"
-source = "git+https://github.com/neondatabase/rust-postgres.git?branch=neon#20031d7a9ee1addeae6e0968e3899ae6bf01cee2"
+source = "git+https://github.com/neondatabase/rust-postgres.git?branch=neon#cff6927e4f58b1af6ecc2ee7279df1f2ff537295"
 dependencies = [
 "bytes",
 "fallible-iterator",
@@ -4647,6 +4665,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "futures-util",
 "http-types",
 "humantime",
+ "humantime-serde",
 "hyper 0.14.26",
 "itertools",
 "metrics",
@@ -4661,7 +4680,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "tokio",
 "tokio-stream",
 "tokio-util",
- "toml_edit",
+ "toml_edit 0.19.10",
 "tracing",
 "utils",
 "workspace_hack",
@@ -5109,54 +5128,6 @@ version = "1.0.13"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "f91339c0467de62360649f8d3e185ca8de4224ff281f66000de5eb2a77a79041"

-[[package]]
-name = "s3_scrubber"
-version = "0.1.0"
-dependencies = [
- "anyhow",
- "async-stream",
- "aws-config",
- "aws-sdk-s3",
- "aws-smithy-async",
- "bincode",
- "bytes",
- "camino",
- "chrono",
- "clap",
- "crc32c",
- "either",
- "futures",
- "futures-util",
- "hex",
- "histogram",
- "humantime",
- "itertools",
- "once_cell",
- "pageserver",
- "pageserver_api",
- "postgres_ffi",
- "rand 0.8.5",
- "remote_storage",
- "reqwest 0.12.4",
- "rustls 0.22.4",
- "rustls-native-certs 0.7.0",
- "serde",
- "serde_json",
- "serde_with",
- "thiserror",
- "tokio",
- "tokio-postgres",
- "tokio-postgres-rustls",
- "tokio-rustls 0.25.0",
- "tokio-stream",
- "tokio-util",
- "tracing",
- "tracing-appender",
- "tracing-subscriber",
- "utils",
- "workspace_hack",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "safekeeper"
 version = "0.1.0"
@@ -5206,8 +5177,9 @@ dependencies = [
 "tokio-io-timeout",
 "tokio-postgres",
 "tokio-stream",
+ "tokio-tar",
 "tokio-util",
- "toml_edit",
+ "toml_edit 0.19.10",
 "tracing",
 "tracing-subscriber",
 "url",
@@ -5486,9 +5458,9 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "serde_spanned"
-version = "0.6.2"
+version = "0.6.6"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "93107647184f6027e3b7dcb2e11034cf95ffa1e3a682c67951963ac69c1c007d"
+checksum = "79e674e01f999af37c49f70a6ede167a8a60b2503e56c5599532a65baa5969a0"
 dependencies = [
 "serde",
 ]
@@ -5801,6 +5773,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "r2d2",
 "reqwest 0.12.4",
 "routerify",
+ "scopeguard",
 "serde",
 "serde_json",
 "strum",
@@ -5813,6 +5786,54 @@ dependencies = [
 "workspace_hack",
 ]

+[[package]]
+name = "storage_scrubber"
+version = "0.1.0"
+dependencies = [
+ "anyhow",
+ "async-stream",
+ "aws-config",
+ "aws-sdk-s3",
+ "aws-smithy-async",
+ "bincode",
+ "bytes",
+ "camino",
+ "chrono",
+ "clap",
+ "crc32c",
+ "either",
+ "futures",
+ "futures-util",
+ "hex",
+ "histogram",
+ "humantime",
+ "itertools",
+ "once_cell",
+ "pageserver",
+ "pageserver_api",
+ "postgres_ffi",
+ "rand 0.8.5",
+ "remote_storage",
+ "reqwest 0.12.4",
+ "rustls 0.22.4",
+ "rustls-native-certs 0.7.0",
+ "serde",
+ "serde_json",
+ "serde_with",
+ "thiserror",
+ "tokio",
+ "tokio-postgres",
+ "tokio-postgres-rustls",
+ "tokio-rustls 0.25.0",
+ "tokio-stream",
+ "tokio-util",
+ "tracing",
+ "tracing-appender",
+ "tracing-subscriber",
+ "utils",
+ "workspace_hack",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "storcon_cli"
 version = "0.1.0"
@@ -5820,6 +5841,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "anyhow",
 "clap",
 "comfy-table",
+ "futures",
 "humantime",
 "hyper 0.14.26",
 "pageserver_api",
@@ -6203,7 +6225,7 @@ dependencies = [
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio-postgres"
 version = "0.7.7"
-source = "git+https://github.com/neondatabase/rust-postgres.git?branch=neon#20031d7a9ee1addeae6e0968e3899ae6bf01cee2"
+source = "git+https://github.com/neondatabase/rust-postgres.git?branch=neon#cff6927e4f58b1af6ecc2ee7279df1f2ff537295"
 dependencies = [
 "async-trait",
 "byteorder",
@@ -6323,14 +6345,26 @@ dependencies = [
 "serde",
 "serde_spanned",
 "toml_datetime",
- "toml_edit",
+ "toml_edit 0.19.10",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "toml"
+version = "0.8.14"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "6f49eb2ab21d2f26bd6db7bf383edc527a7ebaee412d17af4d40fdccd442f335"
+dependencies = [
+ "serde",
+ "serde_spanned",
+ "toml_datetime",
+ "toml_edit 0.22.14",
 ]

 [[package]]
 name = "toml_datetime"
-version = "0.6.2"
+version = "0.6.6"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "5a76a9312f5ba4c2dec6b9161fdf25d87ad8a09256ccea5a556fef03c706a10f"
+checksum = "4badfd56924ae69bcc9039335b2e017639ce3f9b001c393c1b2d1ef846ce2cbf"
 dependencies = [
 "serde",
 ]
@@ -6345,7 +6379,20 @@ dependencies = [
 "serde",
 "serde_spanned",
 "toml_datetime",
- "winnow",
+ "winnow 0.4.6",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "toml_edit"
+version = "0.22.14"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f21c7aaf97f1bd9ca9d4f9e73b0a6c74bd5afef56f2bc931943a6e1c37e04e38"
+dependencies = [
+ "indexmap 2.0.1",
+ "serde",
+ "serde_spanned",
+ "toml_datetime",
+ "winnow 0.6.13",
 ]

 [[package]]
@@ -7328,6 +7375,15 @@ dependencies = [
 "memchr",
 ]

+[[package]]
+name = "winnow"
+version = "0.6.13"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "59b5e5f6c299a3c7890b876a2a587f3115162487e704907d9b6cd29473052ba1"
+dependencies = [
+ "memchr",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "winreg"
 version = "0.50.0"
@@ -7364,6 +7420,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "base64 0.21.1",
 "base64ct",
 "bytes",
+ "camino",
 "cc",
 "chrono",
 "clap",
@@ -7416,7 +7473,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "tokio-rustls 0.24.0",
 "tokio-util",
 "toml_datetime",
- "toml_edit",
+ "toml_edit 0.19.10",
 "tonic",
 "tower",
 "tracing",
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ members = [
    "safekeeper",
    "storage_broker",
    "storage_controller",
-    "s3_scrubber",
+    "storage_scrubber",
    "workspace_hack",
    "trace",
    "libs/compute_api",
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ num_cpus = "1.15"
 num-traits = "0.2.15"
 once_cell = "1.13"
 opentelemetry = "0.20.0"
-opentelemetry-otlp = { version = "0.13.0", default_features=false, features = ["http-proto", "trace", "http", "reqwest-client"] }
+opentelemetry-otlp = { version = "0.13.0", default-features=false, features = ["http-proto", "trace", "http", "reqwest-client"] }
 opentelemetry-semantic-conventions = "0.12.0"
 parking_lot = "0.12"
 parquet = { version = "51.0.0", default-features = false, features = ["zstd"] }
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ parquet_derive = "51.0.0"
 pbkdf2 = { version = "0.12.1", features = ["simple", "std"] }
 pin-project-lite = "0.2"
 procfs = "0.14"
-prometheus = {version = "0.13", default_features=false, features = ["process"]} # removes protobuf dependency
+prometheus = {version = "0.13", default-features=false, features = ["process"]} # removes protobuf dependency
 prost = "0.11"
 rand = "0.8"
 redis = { version = "0.25.2", features = ["tokio-rustls-comp", "keep-alive"] }
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ tower-service = "0.3.2"
 tracing = "0.1"
 tracing-error = "0.2.0"
 tracing-opentelemetry = "0.21.0"
-tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", default_features = false, features = ["smallvec", "fmt", "tracing-log", "std", "env-filter", "json", "ansi"] }
+tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", default-features = false, features = ["smallvec", "fmt", "tracing-log", "std", "env-filter", "json", "ansi"] }
 twox-hash = { version = "1.6.3", default-features = false }
 url = "2.2"
 urlencoding = "2.1"
--- a/2
+++ b/2
@@ -69,8 +69,6 @@ RUN set -e \
    && apt install -y \
        libreadline-dev \
        libseccomp-dev \
-        libicu67 \
-        openssl \
        ca-certificates \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/* \
    && useradd -d /data neon \
--- a/Dockerfile.build-tools
+++ b/Dockerfile.build-tools
@@ -73,13 +73,6 @@ RUN curl -fsSL 'https://apt.llvm.org/llvm-snapshot.gpg.key' | apt-key add - \
    && bash -c 'for f in /usr/bin/clang*-${LLVM_VERSION} /usr/bin/llvm*-${LLVM_VERSION}; do ln -s "${f}" "${f%-${LLVM_VERSION}}"; done' \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/*

-# PostgreSQL 14
-RUN curl -fsSL 'https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc' | apt-key add - \
-    && echo 'deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt bullseye-pgdg main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list \
-    && apt update \
-    && apt install -y postgresql-client-14 \
-    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/*
-
 # AWS CLI
 RUN curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-$(uname -m).zip" -o "awscliv2.zip" \
    && unzip -q awscliv2.zip \
@@ -112,6 +105,45 @@ RUN for package in Capture::Tiny DateTime Devel::Cover Digest::MD5 File::Spec JS
    && make install \
    && rm -rf ../lcov.tar.gz

+# Compile and install the static OpenSSL library
+ENV OPENSSL_VERSION=1.1.1w
+ENV OPENSSL_PREFIX=/usr/local/openssl
+RUN wget -O /tmp/openssl-${OPENSSL_VERSION}.tar.gz https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-${OPENSSL_VERSION}.tar.gz && \
+    echo "cf3098950cb4d853ad95c0841f1f9c6d3dc102dccfcacd521d93925208b76ac8 /tmp/openssl-${OPENSSL_VERSION}.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
+    cd /tmp && \
+    tar xzvf /tmp/openssl-${OPENSSL_VERSION}.tar.gz && \
+    rm /tmp/openssl-${OPENSSL_VERSION}.tar.gz && \
+    cd /tmp/openssl-${OPENSSL_VERSION} && \
+    ./config --prefix=${OPENSSL_PREFIX}  -static --static no-shared -fPIC && \
+    make -j "$(nproc)" && \
+    make install && \
+    cd /tmp && \
+    rm -rf /tmp/openssl-${OPENSSL_VERSION}
+
+# Use the same version of libicu as the compute nodes so that
+# clusters created using inidb on pageserver can be used by computes.
+#
+# TODO: at this time, Dockerfile.compute-node uses the debian bullseye libicu
+# package, which is 67.1. We're duplicating that knowledge here, and also, technically,
+# Debian has a few patches on top of 67.1 that we're not adding here.
+ENV ICU_VERSION=67.1
+ENV ICU_PREFIX=/usr/local/icu
+
+# Download and build static ICU
+RUN wget -O /tmp/libicu-${ICU_VERSION}.tgz https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/releases/download/release-${ICU_VERSION//./-}/icu4c-${ICU_VERSION//./_}-src.tgz && \
+    echo "94a80cd6f251a53bd2a997f6f1b5ac6653fe791dfab66e1eb0227740fb86d5dc /tmp/libicu-${ICU_VERSION}.tgz" | sha256sum --check && \
+    mkdir /tmp/icu && \
+    pushd /tmp/icu && \
+    tar -xzf /tmp/libicu-${ICU_VERSION}.tgz && \
+    pushd icu/source && \
+    ./configure --prefix=${ICU_PREFIX}  --enable-static --enable-shared=no CXXFLAGS="-fPIC" CFLAGS="-fPIC" && \
+    make -j "$(nproc)" && \
+    make install && \
+    popd && \
+    rm -rf icu && \
+    rm -f /tmp/libicu-${ICU_VERSION}.tgz && \
+    popd
+
 # Switch to nonroot user
 USER nonroot:nonroot
 WORKDIR /home/nonroot
@@ -141,7 +173,7 @@ WORKDIR /home/nonroot

 # Rust
 # Please keep the version of llvm (installed above) in sync with rust llvm (`rustc --version --verbose | grep LLVM`)
-ENV RUSTC_VERSION=1.78.0
+ENV RUSTC_VERSION=1.79.0
 ENV RUSTUP_HOME="/home/nonroot/.rustup"
 ENV PATH="/home/nonroot/.cargo/bin:${PATH}"
 RUN curl -sSO https://static.rust-lang.org/rustup/dist/$(uname -m)-unknown-linux-gnu/rustup-init && whoami && \
@@ -170,3 +202,6 @@ RUN whoami \
    && rustup --version --verbose \
    && rustc --version --verbose \
    && clang --version
+
+# Set following flag to check in Makefile if its running in Docker
+RUN touch /home/nonroot/.docker_build
--- a/Dockerfile.compute-node
+++ b/Dockerfile.compute-node
@@ -246,8 +246,8 @@ COPY patches/pgvector.patch /pgvector.patch
 # By default, pgvector Makefile uses `-march=native`. We don't want that,
 # because we build the images on different machines than where we run them.
 # Pass OPTFLAGS="" to remove it.
-RUN wget https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector/archive/refs/tags/v0.7.1.tar.gz -O pgvector.tar.gz && \
-    echo "fe6c8cb4e0cd1a8cb60f5badf9e1701e0fcabcfc260931c26d01e155c4dd21d1 pgvector.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
+RUN wget https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector/archive/refs/tags/v0.7.2.tar.gz -O pgvector.tar.gz && \
+    echo "617fba855c9bcb41a2a9bc78a78567fd2e147c72afd5bf9d37b31b9591632b30 pgvector.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
    mkdir pgvector-src && cd pgvector-src && tar xzf ../pgvector.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C . && \
    patch -p1 < /pgvector.patch && \
    make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) OPTFLAGS="" PG_CONFIG=/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config && \
@@ -467,31 +467,6 @@ RUN case "${PG_VERSION}" in \
    make install -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) && \
    echo "trusted = true" >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/pg_hint_plan.control

-#########################################################################################
-#
-# Layer "kq-imcx-pg-build"
-# compile kq_imcx extension
-#
-#########################################################################################
-FROM build-deps AS kq-imcx-pg-build
-COPY --from=pg-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
-
-ENV PATH "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/:$PATH"
-RUN apt-get update && \
-    apt-get install -y git libgtk2.0-dev libpq-dev libpam-dev libxslt-dev libkrb5-dev cmake && \
-    wget https://github.com/ketteq-neon/postgres-exts/archive/e0bd1a9d9313d7120c1b9c7bb15c48c0dede4c4e.tar.gz -O kq_imcx.tar.gz && \
-    echo "dc93a97ff32d152d32737ba7e196d9687041cda15e58ab31344c2f2de8855336 kq_imcx.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
-    mkdir kq_imcx-src && cd kq_imcx-src && tar xzf ../kq_imcx.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C . && \
-    find /usr/local/pgsql -type f | sed 's|^/usr/local/pgsql/||' > /before.txt &&\
-    mkdir build && cd build && \
-    cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release .. && \
-    make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) && \
-    make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) install && \
-    echo 'trusted = true' >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/kq_imcx.control && \
-    find /usr/local/pgsql -type f | sed 's|^/usr/local/pgsql/||' > /after.txt &&\
-    mkdir -p /extensions/kq_imcx && cp /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/kq_imcx.control /extensions/kq_imcx && \
-    sort -o /before.txt /before.txt && sort -o /after.txt /after.txt && \
-    comm -13 /before.txt /after.txt | tar --directory=/usr/local/pgsql --zstd -cf /extensions/kq_imcx.tar.zst -T -

 #########################################################################################
 #
@@ -840,7 +815,6 @@ COPY --from=hll-pg-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
 COPY --from=plpgsql-check-pg-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
 COPY --from=timescaledb-pg-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
 COPY --from=pg-hint-plan-pg-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
-COPY --from=kq-imcx-pg-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
 COPY --from=pg-cron-pg-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
 COPY --from=pg-pgx-ulid-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
 COPY --from=rdkit-pg-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
@@ -961,7 +935,6 @@ COPY --from=plpgsql-check-pg-build /plpgsql_check.tar.gz /ext-src
 #COPY --from=timescaledb-pg-build /timescaledb.tar.gz /ext-src
 COPY --from=pg-hint-plan-pg-build /pg_hint_plan.tar.gz /ext-src
 COPY patches/pg_hintplan.patch /ext-src
-#COPY --from=kq-imcx-pg-build /kq_imcx.tar.gz /ext-src
 COPY --from=pg-cron-pg-build /pg_cron.tar.gz /ext-src
 COPY patches/pg_cron.patch /ext-src
 #COPY --from=pg-pgx-ulid-build /home/nonroot/pgx_ulid.tar.gz /ext-src
@@ -979,7 +952,7 @@ RUN cd /ext-src/ && for f in *.tar.gz; \
    do echo $f; dname=$(echo $f | sed 's/\.tar.*//')-src; \
    rm -rf $dname; mkdir $dname; tar xzf $f --strip-components=1 -C $dname \
    || exit 1; rm -f $f; done
-RUN cd /ext-src/pgvector-src && patch -p1 <../pgvector.patch 
+RUN cd /ext-src/pgvector-src && patch -p1 <../pgvector.patch
 # cmake is required for the h3 test
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y cmake
 RUN patch -p1 < /ext-src/pg_hintplan.patch
--- a/17
+++ b/17
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ ROOT_PROJECT_DIR := $(dir $(abspath $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST))))
 # Where to install Postgres, default is ./pg_install, maybe useful for package managers
 POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR ?= $(ROOT_PROJECT_DIR)/pg_install/

+OPENSSL_PREFIX_DIR := /usr/local/openssl
+ICU_PREFIX_DIR := /usr/local/icu
+
 #
 # We differentiate between release / debug build types using the BUILD_TYPE
 # environment variable.
@@ -20,6 +23,16 @@ else
 	$(error Bad build type '$(BUILD_TYPE)', see Makefile for options)
 endif

+ifeq ($(shell test -e /home/nonroot/.docker_build && echo -n yes),yes)
+	# Exclude static build openssl, icu for local build (MacOS, Linux)
+	# Only keep for build type release and debug
+	PG_CFLAGS += -I$(OPENSSL_PREFIX_DIR)/include
+	PG_CONFIGURE_OPTS += --with-icu
+	PG_CONFIGURE_OPTS += ICU_CFLAGS='-I/$(ICU_PREFIX_DIR)/include -DU_STATIC_IMPLEMENTATION'
+	PG_CONFIGURE_OPTS += ICU_LIBS='-L$(ICU_PREFIX_DIR)/lib -L$(ICU_PREFIX_DIR)/lib64 -licui18n -licuuc -licudata -lstdc++ -Wl,-Bdynamic -lm'
+	PG_CONFIGURE_OPTS += LDFLAGS='-L$(OPENSSL_PREFIX_DIR)/lib -L$(OPENSSL_PREFIX_DIR)/lib64 -L$(ICU_PREFIX_DIR)/lib -L$(ICU_PREFIX_DIR)/lib64 -Wl,-Bstatic -lssl -lcrypto -Wl,-Bdynamic -lrt -lm -ldl -lpthread'
+endif
+
 UNAME_S := $(shell uname -s)
 ifeq ($(UNAME_S),Linux)
 	# Seccomp BPF is only available for Linux
@@ -28,7 +41,7 @@ else ifeq ($(UNAME_S),Darwin)
 	ifndef DISABLE_HOMEBREW
 		# macOS with brew-installed openssl requires explicit paths
 		# It can be configured with OPENSSL_PREFIX variable
-		OPENSSL_PREFIX ?= $(shell brew --prefix openssl@3)
+		OPENSSL_PREFIX := $(shell brew --prefix openssl@3)
 		PG_CONFIGURE_OPTS += --with-includes=$(OPENSSL_PREFIX)/include --with-libraries=$(OPENSSL_PREFIX)/lib
 		PG_CONFIGURE_OPTS += PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$(shell brew --prefix icu4c)/lib/pkgconfig
 		# macOS already has bison and flex in the system, but they are old and result in postgres-v14 target failure
@@ -124,6 +137,8 @@ postgres-%: postgres-configure-% \
 	$(MAKE) -C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/$*/contrib/pageinspect install
 	+@echo "Compiling amcheck $*"
 	$(MAKE) -C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/$*/contrib/amcheck install
+	+@echo "Compiling test_decoding $*"
+	$(MAKE) -C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/$*/contrib/test_decoding install

 .PHONY: postgres-clean-%
 postgres-clean-%:
--- a/compute_tools/src/bin/compute_ctl.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/bin/compute_ctl.rs
@@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ fn cli() -> clap::Command {
            Arg::new("filecache-connstr")
                .long("filecache-connstr")
                .default_value(
-                    "host=localhost port=5432 dbname=postgres user=cloud_admin sslmode=disable",
+                    "host=localhost port=5432 dbname=postgres user=cloud_admin sslmode=disable application_name=vm-monitor",
                )
                .value_name("FILECACHE_CONNSTR"),
        )
--- a/compute_tools/src/compute.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/compute.rs
@@ -918,38 +918,39 @@ impl ComputeNode {
        // temporarily reset max_cluster_size in config
        // to avoid the possibility of hitting the limit, while we are reconfiguring:
        // creating new extensions, roles, etc...
-        config::compute_ctl_temp_override_create(pgdata_path, "neon.max_cluster_size=-1")?;
-        self.pg_reload_conf()?;
+        config::with_compute_ctl_tmp_override(pgdata_path, "neon.max_cluster_size=-1", || {
+            self.pg_reload_conf()?;

-        let mut client = Client::connect(self.connstr.as_str(), NoTls)?;
+            let mut client = Client::connect(self.connstr.as_str(), NoTls)?;

-        // Proceed with post-startup configuration. Note, that order of operations is important.
-        // Disable DDL forwarding because control plane already knows about these roles/databases.
-        if spec.mode == ComputeMode::Primary {
-            client.simple_query("SET neon.forward_ddl = false")?;
-            cleanup_instance(&mut client)?;
-            handle_roles(&spec, &mut client)?;
-            handle_databases(&spec, &mut client)?;
-            handle_role_deletions(&spec, self.connstr.as_str(), &mut client)?;
-            handle_grants(
-                &spec,
-                &mut client,
-                self.connstr.as_str(),
-                self.has_feature(ComputeFeature::AnonExtension),
-            )?;
-            handle_extensions(&spec, &mut client)?;
-            handle_extension_neon(&mut client)?;
-            // We can skip handle_migrations here because a new migration can only appear
-            // if we have a new version of the compute_ctl binary, which can only happen
-            // if compute got restarted, in which case we'll end up inside of apply_config
-            // instead of reconfigure.
-        }
+            // Proceed with post-startup configuration. Note, that order of operations is important.
+            // Disable DDL forwarding because control plane already knows about these roles/databases.
+            if spec.mode == ComputeMode::Primary {
+                client.simple_query("SET neon.forward_ddl = false")?;
+                cleanup_instance(&mut client)?;
+                handle_roles(&spec, &mut client)?;
+                handle_databases(&spec, &mut client)?;
+                handle_role_deletions(&spec, self.connstr.as_str(), &mut client)?;
+                handle_grants(
+                    &spec,
+                    &mut client,
+                    self.connstr.as_str(),
+                    self.has_feature(ComputeFeature::AnonExtension),
+                )?;
+                handle_extensions(&spec, &mut client)?;
+                handle_extension_neon(&mut client)?;
+                // We can skip handle_migrations here because a new migration can only appear
+                // if we have a new version of the compute_ctl binary, which can only happen
+                // if compute got restarted, in which case we'll end up inside of apply_config
+                // instead of reconfigure.
+            }

-        // 'Close' connection
-        drop(client);
+            // 'Close' connection
+            drop(client);
+
+            Ok(())
+        })?;

-        // reset max_cluster_size in config back to original value and reload config
-        config::compute_ctl_temp_override_remove(pgdata_path)?;
        self.pg_reload_conf()?;

        let unknown_op = "unknown".to_string();
@@ -1040,12 +1041,17 @@ impl ComputeNode {
                // temporarily reset max_cluster_size in config
                // to avoid the possibility of hitting the limit, while we are applying config:
                // creating new extensions, roles, etc...
-                config::compute_ctl_temp_override_create(pgdata_path, "neon.max_cluster_size=-1")?;
-                self.pg_reload_conf()?;
+                config::with_compute_ctl_tmp_override(
+                    pgdata_path,
+                    "neon.max_cluster_size=-1",
+                    || {
+                        self.pg_reload_conf()?;

-                self.apply_config(&compute_state)?;
+                        self.apply_config(&compute_state)?;

-                config::compute_ctl_temp_override_remove(pgdata_path)?;
+                        Ok(())
+                    },
+                )?;
                self.pg_reload_conf()?;
            }
            self.post_apply_config()?;
--- a/compute_tools/src/config.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/config.rs
@@ -83,12 +83,6 @@ pub fn write_postgres_conf(
        ComputeMode::Replica => {
            // hot_standby is 'on' by default, but let's be explicit
            writeln!(file, "hot_standby=on")?;
-
-            // Inform the replica about the primary state
-            // Default is 'false'
-            if let Some(primary_is_running) = spec.primary_is_running {
-                writeln!(file, "neon.primary_is_running={}", primary_is_running)?;
-            }
        }
    }

@@ -131,18 +125,17 @@ pub fn write_postgres_conf(
    Ok(())
 }

-/// create file compute_ctl_temp_override.conf in pgdata_dir
-/// add provided options to this file
-pub fn compute_ctl_temp_override_create(pgdata_path: &Path, options: &str) -> Result<()> {
+pub fn with_compute_ctl_tmp_override<F>(pgdata_path: &Path, options: &str, exec: F) -> Result<()>
+where
+    F: FnOnce() -> Result<()>,
+{
    let path = pgdata_path.join("compute_ctl_temp_override.conf");
    let mut file = File::create(path)?;
    write!(file, "{}", options)?;
-    Ok(())
-}

-/// remove file compute_ctl_temp_override.conf in pgdata_dir
-pub fn compute_ctl_temp_override_remove(pgdata_path: &Path) -> Result<()> {
-    let path = pgdata_path.join("compute_ctl_temp_override.conf");
-    std::fs::remove_file(path)?;
-    Ok(())
+    let res = exec();
+
+    file.set_len(0)?;
+
+    res
 }
--- a/compute_tools/src/http/api.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/http/api.rs
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ use hyper::header::CONTENT_TYPE;
 use hyper::service::{make_service_fn, service_fn};
 use hyper::{Body, Method, Request, Response, Server, StatusCode};
 use tokio::task;
-use tracing::{error, info, warn};
+use tracing::{debug, error, info, warn};
 use tracing_utils::http::OtelName;
 use utils::http::request::must_get_query_param;

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ async fn routes(req: Request<Body>, compute: &Arc<ComputeNode>) -> Response<Body
    match (req.method(), req.uri().path()) {
        // Serialized compute state.
        (&Method::GET, "/status") => {
-            info!("serving /status GET request");
+            debug!("serving /status GET request");
            let state = compute.state.lock().unwrap();
            let status_response = status_response_from_state(&state);
            Response::new(Body::from(serde_json::to_string(&status_response).unwrap()))
--- a/compute_tools/src/monitor.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/monitor.rs
@@ -17,7 +17,11 @@ const MONITOR_CHECK_INTERVAL: Duration = Duration::from_millis(500);
 // should be handled gracefully.
 fn watch_compute_activity(compute: &ComputeNode) {
    // Suppose that `connstr` doesn't change
-    let connstr = compute.connstr.as_str();
+    let mut connstr = compute.connstr.clone();
+    connstr
+        .query_pairs_mut()
+        .append_pair("application_name", "compute_activity_monitor");
+    let connstr = connstr.as_str();

    // During startup and configuration we connect to every Postgres database,
    // but we don't want to count this as some user activity. So wait until
--- a/control_plane/src/background_process.rs
+++ b/control_plane/src/background_process.rs
@@ -36,11 +36,11 @@ use utils::pid_file::{self, PidFileRead};
 // it's waiting. If the process hasn't started/stopped after 5 seconds,
 // it prints a notice that it's taking long, but keeps waiting.
 //
-const RETRY_UNTIL_SECS: u64 = 10;
-const RETRIES: u64 = (RETRY_UNTIL_SECS * 1000) / RETRY_INTERVAL_MILLIS;
-const RETRY_INTERVAL_MILLIS: u64 = 100;
-const DOT_EVERY_RETRIES: u64 = 10;
-const NOTICE_AFTER_RETRIES: u64 = 50;
+const STOP_RETRY_TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_secs(10);
+const STOP_RETRIES: u128 = STOP_RETRY_TIMEOUT.as_millis() / RETRY_INTERVAL.as_millis();
+const RETRY_INTERVAL: Duration = Duration::from_millis(100);
+const DOT_EVERY_RETRIES: u128 = 10;
+const NOTICE_AFTER_RETRIES: u128 = 50;

 /// Argument to `start_process`, to indicate whether it should create pidfile or if the process creates
 /// it itself.
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ pub enum InitialPidFile {
 }

 /// Start a background child process using the parameters given.
+#[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
 pub async fn start_process<F, Fut, AI, A, EI>(
    process_name: &str,
    datadir: &Path,
@@ -59,6 +60,7 @@ pub async fn start_process<F, Fut, AI, A, EI>(
    args: AI,
    envs: EI,
    initial_pid_file: InitialPidFile,
+    retry_timeout: &Duration,
    process_status_check: F,
 ) -> anyhow::Result<()>
 where
@@ -69,6 +71,10 @@ where
    // Not generic AsRef<OsStr>, otherwise empty `envs` prevents type inference
    EI: IntoIterator<Item = (String, String)>,
 {
+    let retries: u128 = retry_timeout.as_millis() / RETRY_INTERVAL.as_millis();
+    if !datadir.metadata().context("stat datadir")?.is_dir() {
+        anyhow::bail!("`datadir` must be a directory when calling this function: {datadir:?}");
+    }
    let log_path = datadir.join(format!("{process_name}.log"));
    let process_log_file = fs::OpenOptions::new()
        .create(true)
@@ -85,7 +91,13 @@ where
    let background_command = command
        .stdout(process_log_file)
        .stderr(same_file_for_stderr)
-        .args(args);
+        .args(args)
+        // spawn all child processes in their datadir, useful for all kinds of things,
+        // not least cleaning up child processes e.g. after an unclean exit from the test suite:
+        // ```
+        // lsof  -d cwd -a +D  Users/cs/src/neon/test_output
+        // ```
+        .current_dir(datadir);

    let filled_cmd = fill_env_vars_prefixed_neon(fill_remote_storage_secrets_vars(
        fill_rust_env_vars(background_command),
@@ -121,7 +133,7 @@ where
        .unwrap();
    });

-    for retries in 0..RETRIES {
+    for retries in 0..retries {
        match process_started(pid, pid_file_to_check, &process_status_check).await {
            Ok(true) => {
                println!("\n{process_name} started and passed status check, pid: {pid}");
@@ -139,7 +151,7 @@ where
                    print!(".");
                    io::stdout().flush().unwrap();
                }
-                thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(RETRY_INTERVAL_MILLIS));
+                thread::sleep(RETRY_INTERVAL);
            }
            Err(e) => {
                println!("error starting process {process_name:?}: {e:#}");
@@ -148,9 +160,10 @@ where
        }
    }
    println!();
-    anyhow::bail!(
-        "{process_name} did not start+pass status checks within {RETRY_UNTIL_SECS} seconds"
-    );
+    anyhow::bail!(format!(
+        "{} did not start+pass status checks within {:?} seconds",
+        process_name, retry_timeout
+    ));
 }

 /// Stops the process, using the pid file given. Returns Ok also if the process is already not running.
@@ -206,7 +219,7 @@ pub fn stop_process(
 }

 pub fn wait_until_stopped(process_name: &str, pid: Pid) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
-    for retries in 0..RETRIES {
+    for retries in 0..STOP_RETRIES {
        match process_has_stopped(pid) {
            Ok(true) => {
                println!("\n{process_name} stopped");
@@ -222,7 +235,7 @@ pub fn wait_until_stopped(process_name: &str, pid: Pid) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
                    print!(".");
                    io::stdout().flush().unwrap();
                }
-                thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(RETRY_INTERVAL_MILLIS));
+                thread::sleep(RETRY_INTERVAL);
            }
            Err(e) => {
                println!("{process_name} with pid {pid} failed to stop: {e:#}");
@@ -231,7 +244,10 @@ pub fn wait_until_stopped(process_name: &str, pid: Pid) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
        }
    }
    println!();
-    anyhow::bail!("{process_name} with pid {pid} did not stop in {RETRY_UNTIL_SECS} seconds");
+    anyhow::bail!(format!(
+        "{} with pid {} did not stop in {:?} seconds",
+        process_name, pid, STOP_RETRY_TIMEOUT
+    ));
 }

 fn fill_rust_env_vars(cmd: &mut Command) -> &mut Command {
--- a/control_plane/src/bin/neon_local.rs
+++ b/control_plane/src/bin/neon_local.rs
@@ -21,10 +21,8 @@ use pageserver_api::config::{
    DEFAULT_HTTP_LISTEN_PORT as DEFAULT_PAGESERVER_HTTP_PORT,
    DEFAULT_PG_LISTEN_PORT as DEFAULT_PAGESERVER_PG_PORT,
 };
-use pageserver_api::controller_api::PlacementPolicy;
-use pageserver_api::models::{
-    ShardParameters, TenantCreateRequest, TimelineCreateRequest, TimelineInfo,
-};
+use pageserver_api::controller_api::{PlacementPolicy, TenantCreateRequest};
+use pageserver_api::models::{ShardParameters, TimelineCreateRequest, TimelineInfo};
 use pageserver_api::shard::{ShardCount, ShardStripeSize, TenantShardId};
 use postgres_backend::AuthType;
 use postgres_connection::parse_host_port;
@@ -36,6 +34,7 @@ use std::collections::{BTreeSet, HashMap};
 use std::path::PathBuf;
 use std::process::exit;
 use std::str::FromStr;
+use std::time::Duration;
 use storage_broker::DEFAULT_LISTEN_ADDR as DEFAULT_BROKER_ADDR;
 use url::Host;
 use utils::{
@@ -87,7 +86,8 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
        handle_init(sub_args).map(Some)
    } else {
        // all other commands need an existing config
-        let mut env = LocalEnv::load_config().context("Error loading config")?;
+        let mut env =
+            LocalEnv::load_config(&local_env::base_path()).context("Error loading config")?;
        let original_env = env.clone();

        let rt = tokio::runtime::Builder::new_current_thread()
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
        let subcommand_result = match sub_name {
            "tenant" => rt.block_on(handle_tenant(sub_args, &mut env)),
            "timeline" => rt.block_on(handle_timeline(sub_args, &mut env)),
-            "start" => rt.block_on(handle_start_all(&env)),
+            "start" => rt.block_on(handle_start_all(&env, get_start_timeout(sub_args))),
            "stop" => rt.block_on(handle_stop_all(sub_args, &env)),
            "pageserver" => rt.block_on(handle_pageserver(sub_args, &env)),
            "storage_controller" => rt.block_on(handle_storage_controller(sub_args, &env)),
@@ -364,7 +364,8 @@ fn handle_init(init_match: &ArgMatches) -> anyhow::Result<LocalEnv> {

    LocalEnv::init(init_conf, force)
        .context("materialize initial neon_local environment on disk")?;
-    Ok(LocalEnv::load_config().expect("freshly written config should be loadable"))
+    Ok(LocalEnv::load_config(&local_env::base_path())
+        .expect("freshly written config should be loadable"))
 }

 /// The default pageserver is the one where CLI tenant/timeline operations are sent by default.
@@ -597,13 +598,9 @@ async fn handle_timeline(timeline_match: &ArgMatches, env: &mut local_env::Local
        Some(("import", import_match)) => {
            let tenant_id = get_tenant_id(import_match, env)?;
            let timeline_id = parse_timeline_id(import_match)?.expect("No timeline id provided");
-            let name = import_match
-                .get_one::<String>("node-name")
-                .ok_or_else(|| anyhow!("No node name provided"))?;
-            let update_catalog = import_match
-                .get_one::<bool>("update-catalog")
-                .cloned()
-                .unwrap_or_default();
+            let branch_name = import_match
+                .get_one::<String>("branch-name")
+                .ok_or_else(|| anyhow!("No branch name provided"))?;

            // Parse base inputs
            let base_tarfile = import_match
@@ -630,24 +627,11 @@ async fn handle_timeline(timeline_match: &ArgMatches, env: &mut local_env::Local
                .copied()
                .context("Failed to parse postgres version from the argument string")?;

-            let mut cplane = ComputeControlPlane::load(env.clone())?;
            println!("Importing timeline into pageserver ...");
            pageserver
                .timeline_import(tenant_id, timeline_id, base, pg_wal, pg_version)
                .await?;
-            env.register_branch_mapping(name.to_string(), tenant_id, timeline_id)?;
-
-            println!("Creating endpoint for imported timeline ...");
-            cplane.new_endpoint(
-                name,
-                tenant_id,
-                timeline_id,
-                None,
-                None,
-                pg_version,
-                ComputeMode::Primary,
-                !update_catalog,
-            )?;
+            env.register_branch_mapping(branch_name.to_string(), tenant_id, timeline_id)?;
            println!("Done");
        }
        Some(("branch", branch_match)) => {
@@ -862,20 +846,13 @@ async fn handle_endpoint(ep_match: &ArgMatches, env: &local_env::LocalEnv) -> Re

            let allow_multiple = sub_args.get_flag("allow-multiple");

-            // If --safekeepers argument is given, use only the listed safekeeper nodes.
-            let safekeepers =
-                if let Some(safekeepers_str) = sub_args.get_one::<String>("safekeepers") {
-                    let mut safekeepers: Vec<NodeId> = Vec::new();
-                    for sk_id in safekeepers_str.split(',').map(str::trim) {
-                        let sk_id = NodeId(u64::from_str(sk_id).map_err(|_| {
-                            anyhow!("invalid node ID \"{sk_id}\" in --safekeepers list")
-                        })?);
-                        safekeepers.push(sk_id);
-                    }
-                    safekeepers
-                } else {
-                    env.safekeepers.iter().map(|sk| sk.id).collect()
-                };
+            // If --safekeepers argument is given, use only the listed
+            // safekeeper nodes; otherwise all from the env.
+            let safekeepers = if let Some(safekeepers) = parse_safekeepers(sub_args)? {
+                safekeepers
+            } else {
+                env.safekeepers.iter().map(|sk| sk.id).collect()
+            };

            let endpoint = cplane
                .endpoints
@@ -979,7 +956,10 @@ async fn handle_endpoint(ep_match: &ArgMatches, env: &local_env::LocalEnv) -> Re
                        })
                        .collect::<Vec<_>>()
                };
-            endpoint.reconfigure(pageservers, None).await?;
+            // If --safekeepers argument is given, use only the listed
+            // safekeeper nodes; otherwise all from the env.
+            let safekeepers = parse_safekeepers(sub_args)?;
+            endpoint.reconfigure(pageservers, None, safekeepers).await?;
        }
        "stop" => {
            let endpoint_id = sub_args
@@ -1001,6 +981,23 @@ async fn handle_endpoint(ep_match: &ArgMatches, env: &local_env::LocalEnv) -> Re
    Ok(())
 }

+/// Parse --safekeepers as list of safekeeper ids.
+fn parse_safekeepers(sub_args: &ArgMatches) -> Result<Option<Vec<NodeId>>> {
+    if let Some(safekeepers_str) = sub_args.get_one::<String>("safekeepers") {
+        let mut safekeepers: Vec<NodeId> = Vec::new();
+        for sk_id in safekeepers_str.split(',').map(str::trim) {
+            let sk_id = NodeId(
+                u64::from_str(sk_id)
+                    .map_err(|_| anyhow!("invalid node ID \"{sk_id}\" in --safekeepers list"))?,
+            );
+            safekeepers.push(sk_id);
+        }
+        Ok(Some(safekeepers))
+    } else {
+        Ok(None)
+    }
+}
+
 fn handle_mappings(sub_match: &ArgMatches, env: &mut local_env::LocalEnv) -> Result<()> {
    let (sub_name, sub_args) = match sub_match.subcommand() {
        Some(ep_subcommand_data) => ep_subcommand_data,
@@ -1046,10 +1043,20 @@ fn get_pageserver(env: &local_env::LocalEnv, args: &ArgMatches) -> Result<PageSe
    ))
 }

+fn get_start_timeout(args: &ArgMatches) -> &Duration {
+    let humantime_duration = args
+        .get_one::<humantime::Duration>("start-timeout")
+        .expect("invalid value for start-timeout");
+    humantime_duration.as_ref()
+}
+
 async fn handle_pageserver(sub_match: &ArgMatches, env: &local_env::LocalEnv) -> Result<()> {
    match sub_match.subcommand() {
        Some(("start", subcommand_args)) => {
-            if let Err(e) = get_pageserver(env, subcommand_args)?.start().await {
+            if let Err(e) = get_pageserver(env, subcommand_args)?
+                .start(get_start_timeout(subcommand_args))
+                .await
+            {
                eprintln!("pageserver start failed: {e}");
                exit(1);
            }
@@ -1075,7 +1082,7 @@ async fn handle_pageserver(sub_match: &ArgMatches, env: &local_env::LocalEnv) ->
                exit(1);
            }

-            if let Err(e) = pageserver.start().await {
+            if let Err(e) = pageserver.start(get_start_timeout(sub_match)).await {
                eprintln!("pageserver start failed: {e}");
                exit(1);
            }
@@ -1103,8 +1110,8 @@ async fn handle_storage_controller(
 ) -> Result<()> {
    let svc = StorageController::from_env(env);
    match sub_match.subcommand() {
-        Some(("start", _start_match)) => {
-            if let Err(e) = svc.start().await {
+        Some(("start", start_match)) => {
+            if let Err(e) = svc.start(get_start_timeout(start_match)).await {
                eprintln!("start failed: {e}");
                exit(1);
            }
@@ -1163,7 +1170,10 @@ async fn handle_safekeeper(sub_match: &ArgMatches, env: &local_env::LocalEnv) ->
        "start" => {
            let extra_opts = safekeeper_extra_opts(sub_args);

-            if let Err(e) = safekeeper.start(extra_opts).await {
+            if let Err(e) = safekeeper
+                .start(extra_opts, get_start_timeout(sub_args))
+                .await
+            {
                eprintln!("safekeeper start failed: {}", e);
                exit(1);
            }
@@ -1189,7 +1199,10 @@ async fn handle_safekeeper(sub_match: &ArgMatches, env: &local_env::LocalEnv) ->
            }

            let extra_opts = safekeeper_extra_opts(sub_args);
-            if let Err(e) = safekeeper.start(extra_opts).await {
+            if let Err(e) = safekeeper
+                .start(extra_opts, get_start_timeout(sub_args))
+                .await
+            {
                eprintln!("safekeeper start failed: {}", e);
                exit(1);
            }
@@ -1202,15 +1215,18 @@ async fn handle_safekeeper(sub_match: &ArgMatches, env: &local_env::LocalEnv) ->
    Ok(())
 }

-async fn handle_start_all(env: &local_env::LocalEnv) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+async fn handle_start_all(
+    env: &local_env::LocalEnv,
+    retry_timeout: &Duration,
+) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
    // Endpoints are not started automatically

-    broker::start_broker_process(env).await?;
+    broker::start_broker_process(env, retry_timeout).await?;

    // Only start the storage controller if the pageserver is configured to need it
    if env.control_plane_api.is_some() {
        let storage_controller = StorageController::from_env(env);
-        if let Err(e) = storage_controller.start().await {
+        if let Err(e) = storage_controller.start(retry_timeout).await {
            eprintln!("storage_controller start failed: {:#}", e);
            try_stop_all(env, true).await;
            exit(1);
@@ -1219,7 +1235,7 @@ async fn handle_start_all(env: &local_env::LocalEnv) -> anyhow::Result<()> {

    for ps_conf in &env.pageservers {
        let pageserver = PageServerNode::from_env(env, ps_conf);
-        if let Err(e) = pageserver.start().await {
+        if let Err(e) = pageserver.start(retry_timeout).await {
            eprintln!("pageserver {} start failed: {:#}", ps_conf.id, e);
            try_stop_all(env, true).await;
            exit(1);
@@ -1228,7 +1244,7 @@ async fn handle_start_all(env: &local_env::LocalEnv) -> anyhow::Result<()> {

    for node in env.safekeepers.iter() {
        let safekeeper = SafekeeperNode::from_env(env, node);
-        if let Err(e) = safekeeper.start(vec![]).await {
+        if let Err(e) = safekeeper.start(vec![], retry_timeout).await {
            eprintln!("safekeeper {} start failed: {:#}", safekeeper.id, e);
            try_stop_all(env, false).await;
            exit(1);
@@ -1288,6 +1304,15 @@ async fn try_stop_all(env: &local_env::LocalEnv, immediate: bool) {
 }

 fn cli() -> Command {
+    let timeout_arg = Arg::new("start-timeout")
+        .long("start-timeout")
+        .short('t')
+        .global(true)
+        .help("timeout until we fail the command, e.g. 30s")
+        .value_parser(value_parser!(humantime::Duration))
+        .default_value("10s")
+        .required(false);
+
    let branch_name_arg = Arg::new("branch-name")
        .long("branch-name")
        .help("Name of the branch to be created or used as an alias for other services")
@@ -1456,8 +1481,7 @@ fn cli() -> Command {
                .about("Import timeline from basebackup directory")
                .arg(tenant_id_arg.clone())
                .arg(timeline_id_arg.clone())
-                .arg(Arg::new("node-name").long("node-name")
-                    .help("Name to assign to the imported timeline"))
+                .arg(branch_name_arg.clone())
                .arg(Arg::new("base-tarfile")
                    .long("base-tarfile")
                    .value_parser(value_parser!(PathBuf))
@@ -1473,7 +1497,6 @@ fn cli() -> Command {
                .arg(Arg::new("end-lsn").long("end-lsn")
                    .help("Lsn the basebackup ends at"))
                .arg(pg_version_arg.clone())
-                .arg(update_catalog.clone())
            )
        ).subcommand(
            Command::new("tenant")
@@ -1507,6 +1530,7 @@ fn cli() -> Command {
                .subcommand(Command::new("status"))
                .subcommand(Command::new("start")
                    .about("Start local pageserver")
+                    .arg(timeout_arg.clone())
                )
                .subcommand(Command::new("stop")
                    .about("Stop local pageserver")
@@ -1514,13 +1538,15 @@ fn cli() -> Command {
                )
                .subcommand(Command::new("restart")
                    .about("Restart local pageserver")
+                    .arg(timeout_arg.clone())
                )
        )
        .subcommand(
            Command::new("storage_controller")
                .arg_required_else_help(true)
                .about("Manage storage_controller")
-                .subcommand(Command::new("start").about("Start storage controller"))
+                .subcommand(Command::new("start").about("Start storage controller")
+                            .arg(timeout_arg.clone()))
                .subcommand(Command::new("stop").about("Stop storage controller")
                            .arg(stop_mode_arg.clone()))
        )
@@ -1532,6 +1558,7 @@ fn cli() -> Command {
                            .about("Start local safekeeper")
                            .arg(safekeeper_id_arg.clone())
                            .arg(safekeeper_extra_opt_arg.clone())
+                            .arg(timeout_arg.clone())
                )
                .subcommand(Command::new("stop")
                            .about("Stop local safekeeper")
@@ -1543,6 +1570,7 @@ fn cli() -> Command {
                            .arg(safekeeper_id_arg)
                            .arg(stop_mode_arg.clone())
                            .arg(safekeeper_extra_opt_arg)
+                            .arg(timeout_arg.clone())
                )
        )
        .subcommand(
@@ -1573,14 +1601,16 @@ fn cli() -> Command {
                    .about("Start postgres.\n If the endpoint doesn't exist yet, it is created.")
                    .arg(endpoint_id_arg.clone())
                    .arg(endpoint_pageserver_id_arg.clone())
-                    .arg(safekeepers_arg)
+                    .arg(safekeepers_arg.clone())
                    .arg(remote_ext_config_args)
                    .arg(create_test_user)
                    .arg(allow_multiple.clone())
+                    .arg(timeout_arg.clone())
                )
                .subcommand(Command::new("reconfigure")
                            .about("Reconfigure the endpoint")
                            .arg(endpoint_pageserver_id_arg)
+                            .arg(safekeepers_arg)
                            .arg(endpoint_id_arg.clone())
                            .arg(tenant_id_arg.clone())
                )
@@ -1628,6 +1658,7 @@ fn cli() -> Command {
        .subcommand(
            Command::new("start")
                .about("Start page server and safekeepers")
+                .arg(timeout_arg.clone())
        )
        .subcommand(
            Command::new("stop")
--- a/control_plane/src/broker.rs
+++ b/control_plane/src/broker.rs
@@ -5,13 +5,18 @@
 //! ```text
 //!   .neon/safekeepers/<safekeeper id>
 //! ```
+use std::time::Duration;
+
 use anyhow::Context;

 use camino::Utf8PathBuf;

 use crate::{background_process, local_env};

-pub async fn start_broker_process(env: &local_env::LocalEnv) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+pub async fn start_broker_process(
+    env: &local_env::LocalEnv,
+    retry_timeout: &Duration,
+) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
    let broker = &env.broker;
    let listen_addr = &broker.listen_addr;

@@ -27,6 +32,7 @@ pub async fn start_broker_process(env: &local_env::LocalEnv) -> anyhow::Result<(
        args,
        [],
        background_process::InitialPidFile::Create(storage_broker_pid_file_path(env)),
+        retry_timeout,
        || async {
            let url = broker.client_url();
            let status_url = url.join("status").with_context(|| {
--- a/control_plane/src/endpoint.rs
+++ b/control_plane/src/endpoint.rs
@@ -499,6 +499,23 @@ impl Endpoint {
            .join(",")
    }

+    /// Map safekeepers ids to the actual connection strings.
+    fn build_safekeepers_connstrs(&self, sk_ids: Vec<NodeId>) -> Result<Vec<String>> {
+        let mut safekeeper_connstrings = Vec::new();
+        if self.mode == ComputeMode::Primary {
+            for sk_id in sk_ids {
+                let sk = self
+                    .env
+                    .safekeepers
+                    .iter()
+                    .find(|node| node.id == sk_id)
+                    .ok_or_else(|| anyhow!("safekeeper {sk_id} does not exist"))?;
+                safekeeper_connstrings.push(format!("127.0.0.1:{}", sk.get_compute_port()));
+            }
+        }
+        Ok(safekeeper_connstrings)
+    }
+
    pub async fn start(
        &self,
        auth_token: &Option<String>,
@@ -523,18 +540,7 @@ impl Endpoint {
        let pageserver_connstring = Self::build_pageserver_connstr(&pageservers);
        assert!(!pageserver_connstring.is_empty());

-        let mut safekeeper_connstrings = Vec::new();
-        if self.mode == ComputeMode::Primary {
-            for sk_id in safekeepers {
-                let sk = self
-                    .env
-                    .safekeepers
-                    .iter()
-                    .find(|node| node.id == sk_id)
-                    .ok_or_else(|| anyhow!("safekeeper {sk_id} does not exist"))?;
-                safekeeper_connstrings.push(format!("127.0.0.1:{}", sk.get_compute_port()));
-            }
-        }
+        let safekeeper_connstrings = self.build_safekeepers_connstrs(safekeepers)?;

        // check for file remote_extensions_spec.json
        // if it is present, read it and pass to compute_ctl
@@ -592,7 +598,6 @@ impl Endpoint {
            remote_extensions,
            pgbouncer_settings: None,
            shard_stripe_size: Some(shard_stripe_size),
-            primary_is_running: None,
        };
        let spec_path = self.endpoint_path().join("spec.json");
        std::fs::write(spec_path, serde_json::to_string_pretty(&spec)?)?;
@@ -741,6 +746,7 @@ impl Endpoint {
        &self,
        mut pageservers: Vec<(Host, u16)>,
        stripe_size: Option<ShardStripeSize>,
+        safekeepers: Option<Vec<NodeId>>,
    ) -> Result<()> {
        let mut spec: ComputeSpec = {
            let spec_path = self.endpoint_path().join("spec.json");
@@ -775,6 +781,12 @@ impl Endpoint {
            spec.shard_stripe_size = stripe_size.map(|s| s.0 as usize);
        }

+        // If safekeepers are not specified, don't change them.
+        if let Some(safekeepers) = safekeepers {
+            let safekeeper_connstrings = self.build_safekeepers_connstrs(safekeepers)?;
+            spec.safekeeper_connstrings = safekeeper_connstrings;
+        }
+
        let client = reqwest::Client::builder()
            .timeout(Duration::from_secs(30))
            .build()
--- a/control_plane/src/local_env.rs
+++ b/control_plane/src/local_env.rs
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ pub struct LocalEnv {
    // compute endpoints).
    //
    // This is not stored in the config file. Rather, this is the path where the
-    // config file itself is. It is read from the NEON_REPO_DIR env variable or
-    // '.neon' if not given.
+    // config file itself is. It is read from the NEON_REPO_DIR env variable which
+    // must be an absolute path. If the env var is not set, $PWD/.neon is used.
    pub base_data_dir: PathBuf,

    // Path to postgres distribution. It's expected that "bin", "include",
@@ -431,9 +431,7 @@ impl LocalEnv {
    }

    ///  Construct `Self` from on-disk state.
-    pub fn load_config() -> anyhow::Result<Self> {
-        let repopath = base_path();
-
+    pub fn load_config(repopath: &Path) -> anyhow::Result<Self> {
        if !repopath.exists() {
            bail!(
                "Neon config is not found in {}. You need to run 'neon_local init' first",
@@ -461,7 +459,7 @@ impl LocalEnv {
                branch_name_mappings,
            } = on_disk_config;
            LocalEnv {
-                base_data_dir: repopath.clone(),
+                base_data_dir: repopath.to_owned(),
                pg_distrib_dir,
                neon_distrib_dir,
                default_tenant_id,
@@ -482,7 +480,7 @@ impl LocalEnv {
            "we ensure this during deserialization"
        );
        env.pageservers = {
-            let iter = std::fs::read_dir(&repopath).context("open dir")?;
+            let iter = std::fs::read_dir(repopath).context("open dir")?;
            let mut pageservers = Vec::new();
            for res in iter {
                let dentry = res?;
@@ -719,10 +717,25 @@ impl LocalEnv {
 }

 pub fn base_path() -> PathBuf {
-    match std::env::var_os("NEON_REPO_DIR") {
-        Some(val) => PathBuf::from(val),
-        None => PathBuf::from(".neon"),
-    }
+    let path = match std::env::var_os("NEON_REPO_DIR") {
+        Some(val) => {
+            let path = PathBuf::from(val);
+            if !path.is_absolute() {
+                // repeat the env var in the error because our default is always absolute
+                panic!("NEON_REPO_DIR must be an absolute path, got {path:?}");
+            }
+            path
+        }
+        None => {
+            let pwd = std::env::current_dir()
+                // technically this can fail but it's quite unlikeley
+                .expect("determine current directory");
+            let pwd_abs = pwd.canonicalize().expect("canonicalize current directory");
+            pwd_abs.join(".neon")
+        }
+    };
+    assert!(path.is_absolute());
+    path
 }

 /// Generate a public/private key pair for JWT authentication
--- a/control_plane/src/pageserver.rs
+++ b/control_plane/src/pageserver.rs
@@ -17,8 +17,7 @@ use anyhow::{bail, Context};
 use camino::Utf8PathBuf;
 use futures::SinkExt;
 use pageserver_api::models::{
-    self, AuxFilePolicy, LocationConfig, ShardParameters, TenantHistorySize, TenantInfo,
-    TimelineInfo,
+    self, AuxFilePolicy, LocationConfig, TenantHistorySize, TenantInfo, TimelineInfo,
 };
 use pageserver_api::shard::TenantShardId;
 use pageserver_client::mgmt_api;
@@ -158,8 +157,8 @@ impl PageServerNode {
            .expect("non-Unicode path")
    }

-    pub async fn start(&self) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
-        self.start_node().await
+    pub async fn start(&self, retry_timeout: &Duration) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+        self.start_node(retry_timeout).await
    }

    fn pageserver_init(&self, conf: NeonLocalInitPageserverConf) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
@@ -214,14 +213,15 @@ impl PageServerNode {
        Ok(())
    }

-    async fn start_node(&self) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+    async fn start_node(&self, retry_timeout: &Duration) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
        // TODO: using a thread here because start_process() is not async but we need to call check_status()
        let datadir = self.repo_path();
        print!(
-            "Starting pageserver node {} at '{}' in {:?}",
+            "Starting pageserver node {} at '{}' in {:?}, retrying for {:?}",
            self.conf.id,
            self.pg_connection_config.raw_address(),
-            datadir
+            datadir,
+            retry_timeout
        );
        io::stdout().flush().context("flush stdout")?;

@@ -239,6 +239,7 @@ impl PageServerNode {
            args,
            self.pageserver_env_variables()?,
            background_process::InitialPidFile::Expect(self.pid_file()),
+            retry_timeout,
            || async {
                let st = self.check_status().await;
                match st {
@@ -383,6 +384,10 @@ impl PageServerNode {
                .map(|x| x.parse::<AuxFilePolicy>())
                .transpose()
                .context("Failed to parse 'switch_aux_file_policy'")?,
+            lsn_lease_length: settings.remove("lsn_lease_length").map(|x| x.to_string()),
+            lsn_lease_length_for_ts: settings
+                .remove("lsn_lease_length_for_ts")
+                .map(|x| x.to_string()),
        };
        if !settings.is_empty() {
            bail!("Unrecognized tenant settings: {settings:?}")
@@ -391,28 +396,6 @@ impl PageServerNode {
        }
    }

-    pub async fn tenant_create(
-        &self,
-        new_tenant_id: TenantId,
-        generation: Option<u32>,
-        settings: HashMap<&str, &str>,
-    ) -> anyhow::Result<TenantId> {
-        let config = Self::parse_config(settings.clone())?;
-
-        let request = models::TenantCreateRequest {
-            new_tenant_id: TenantShardId::unsharded(new_tenant_id),
-            generation,
-            config,
-            shard_parameters: ShardParameters::default(),
-            // Placement policy is not meaningful for creations not done via storage controller
-            placement_policy: None,
-        };
-        if !settings.is_empty() {
-            bail!("Unrecognized tenant settings: {settings:?}")
-        }
-        Ok(self.http_client.tenant_create(&request).await?)
-    }
-
    pub async fn tenant_config(
        &self,
        tenant_id: TenantId,
@@ -506,6 +489,10 @@ impl PageServerNode {
                    .map(|x| x.parse::<AuxFilePolicy>())
                    .transpose()
                    .context("Failed to parse 'switch_aux_file_policy'")?,
+                lsn_lease_length: settings.remove("lsn_lease_length").map(|x| x.to_string()),
+                lsn_lease_length_for_ts: settings
+                    .remove("lsn_lease_length_for_ts")
+                    .map(|x| x.to_string()),
            }
        };

--- a/control_plane/src/safekeeper.rs
+++ b/control_plane/src/safekeeper.rs
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 //! ```
 use std::io::Write;
 use std::path::PathBuf;
+use std::time::Duration;
 use std::{io, result};

 use anyhow::Context;
@@ -14,6 +15,7 @@ use camino::Utf8PathBuf;
 use postgres_connection::PgConnectionConfig;
 use reqwest::{IntoUrl, Method};
 use thiserror::Error;
+use utils::auth::{Claims, Scope};
 use utils::{http::error::HttpErrorBody, id::NodeId};

 use crate::{
@@ -110,11 +112,16 @@ impl SafekeeperNode {
            .expect("non-Unicode path")
    }

-    pub async fn start(&self, extra_opts: Vec<String>) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+    pub async fn start(
+        &self,
+        extra_opts: Vec<String>,
+        retry_timeout: &Duration,
+    ) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
        print!(
-            "Starting safekeeper at '{}' in '{}'",
+            "Starting safekeeper at '{}' in '{}', retrying for {:?}",
            self.pg_connection_config.raw_address(),
-            self.datadir_path().display()
+            self.datadir_path().display(),
+            retry_timeout,
        );
        io::stdout().flush().unwrap();

@@ -197,8 +204,9 @@ impl SafekeeperNode {
            &datadir,
            &self.env.safekeeper_bin(),
            &args,
-            [],
+            self.safekeeper_env_variables()?,
            background_process::InitialPidFile::Expect(self.pid_file()),
+            retry_timeout,
            || async {
                match self.check_status().await {
                    Ok(()) => Ok(true),
@@ -210,6 +218,18 @@ impl SafekeeperNode {
        .await
    }

+    fn safekeeper_env_variables(&self) -> anyhow::Result<Vec<(String, String)>> {
+        // Generate a token to connect from safekeeper to peers
+        if self.conf.auth_enabled {
+            let token = self
+                .env
+                .generate_auth_token(&Claims::new(None, Scope::SafekeeperData))?;
+            Ok(vec![("SAFEKEEPER_AUTH_TOKEN".to_owned(), token)])
+        } else {
+            Ok(Vec::new())
+        }
+    }
+
    ///
    /// Stop the server.
    ///
--- a/control_plane/src/storage_controller.rs
+++ b/control_plane/src/storage_controller.rs
@@ -5,12 +5,11 @@ use crate::{
 use camino::{Utf8Path, Utf8PathBuf};
 use pageserver_api::{
    controller_api::{
-        NodeConfigureRequest, NodeRegisterRequest, TenantCreateResponse, TenantLocateResponse,
-        TenantShardMigrateRequest, TenantShardMigrateResponse,
+        NodeConfigureRequest, NodeRegisterRequest, TenantCreateRequest, TenantCreateResponse,
+        TenantLocateResponse, TenantShardMigrateRequest, TenantShardMigrateResponse,
    },
    models::{
-        TenantCreateRequest, TenantShardSplitRequest, TenantShardSplitResponse,
-        TimelineCreateRequest, TimelineInfo,
+        TenantShardSplitRequest, TenantShardSplitResponse, TimelineCreateRequest, TimelineInfo,
    },
    shard::{ShardStripeSize, TenantShardId},
 };
@@ -18,7 +17,7 @@ use pageserver_client::mgmt_api::ResponseErrorMessageExt;
 use postgres_backend::AuthType;
 use reqwest::Method;
 use serde::{de::DeserializeOwned, Deserialize, Serialize};
-use std::{fs, str::FromStr};
+use std::{fs, str::FromStr, time::Duration};
 use tokio::process::Command;
 use tracing::instrument;
 use url::Url;
@@ -46,6 +45,7 @@ const STORAGE_CONTROLLER_POSTGRES_VERSION: u32 = 16;
 pub struct AttachHookRequest {
    pub tenant_shard_id: TenantShardId,
    pub node_id: Option<NodeId>,
+    pub generation_override: Option<i32>,
 }

 #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ impl StorageController {
        Ok(database_url)
    }

-    pub async fn start(&self) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+    pub async fn start(&self, retry_timeout: &Duration) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
        // Start a vanilla Postgres process used by the storage controller for persistence.
        let pg_data_path = Utf8PathBuf::from_path_buf(self.env.base_data_dir.clone())
            .unwrap()
@@ -271,6 +271,7 @@ impl StorageController {
            db_start_args,
            [],
            background_process::InitialPidFile::Create(self.postgres_pid_file()),
+            retry_timeout,
            || self.pg_isready(&pg_bin_dir),
        )
        .await?;
@@ -313,16 +314,19 @@ impl StorageController {
            args.push(format!("--split-threshold={split_threshold}"))
        }

+        args.push(format!(
+            "--neon-local-repo-dir={}",
+            self.env.base_data_dir.display()
+        ));
+
        background_process::start_process(
            COMMAND,
            &self.env.base_data_dir,
            &self.env.storage_controller_bin(),
            args,
-            [(
-                "NEON_REPO_DIR".to_string(),
-                self.env.base_data_dir.to_string_lossy().to_string(),
-            )],
+            [],
            background_process::InitialPidFile::Create(self.pid_file()),
+            retry_timeout,
            || async {
                match self.ready().await {
                    Ok(_) => Ok(true),
@@ -440,6 +444,7 @@ impl StorageController {
        let request = AttachHookRequest {
            tenant_shard_id,
            node_id: Some(pageserver_id),
+            generation_override: None,
        };

        let response = self
--- a/control_plane/storcon_cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/control_plane/storcon_cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ license.workspace = true
 anyhow.workspace = true
 clap.workspace = true
 comfy-table.workspace = true
+futures.workspace = true
 humantime.workspace = true
 hyper.workspace = true
 pageserver_api.workspace = true
--- a/control_plane/storcon_cli/src/main.rs
+++ b/control_plane/storcon_cli/src/main.rs
@@ -1,15 +1,16 @@
-use std::{collections::HashMap, str::FromStr, time::Duration};
+use futures::StreamExt;
+use std::{str::FromStr, time::Duration};

 use clap::{Parser, Subcommand};
 use pageserver_api::{
    controller_api::{
-        NodeAvailabilityWrapper, NodeDescribeResponse, ShardSchedulingPolicy,
+        NodeAvailabilityWrapper, NodeDescribeResponse, ShardSchedulingPolicy, TenantCreateRequest,
        TenantDescribeResponse, TenantPolicyRequest,
    },
    models::{
        EvictionPolicy, EvictionPolicyLayerAccessThreshold, LocationConfigSecondary,
-        ShardParameters, TenantConfig, TenantConfigRequest, TenantCreateRequest,
-        TenantShardSplitRequest, TenantShardSplitResponse,
+        ShardParameters, TenantConfig, TenantConfigRequest, TenantShardSplitRequest,
+        TenantShardSplitResponse,
    },
    shard::{ShardStripeSize, TenantShardId},
 };
@@ -20,7 +21,7 @@ use utils::id::{NodeId, TenantId};

 use pageserver_api::controller_api::{
    NodeConfigureRequest, NodeRegisterRequest, NodeSchedulingPolicy, PlacementPolicy,
-    TenantLocateResponse, TenantShardMigrateRequest, TenantShardMigrateResponse,
+    TenantShardMigrateRequest, TenantShardMigrateResponse,
 };

 #[derive(Subcommand, Debug)]
@@ -109,12 +110,6 @@ enum Command {
        #[arg(long)]
        config: String,
    },
-    /// Attempt to balance the locations for a tenant across pageservers.  This is a client-side
-    /// alternative to the storage controller's scheduling optimization behavior.
-    TenantScatter {
-        #[arg(long)]
-        tenant_id: TenantId,
-    },
    /// Print details about a particular tenant, including all its shards' states.
    TenantDescribe {
        #[arg(long)]
@@ -148,6 +143,22 @@ enum Command {
        #[arg(long)]
        threshold: humantime::Duration,
    },
+    // Drain a set of specified pageservers by moving the primary attachments to pageservers
+    // outside of the specified set.
+    Drain {
+        // Set of pageserver node ids to drain.
+        #[arg(long)]
+        nodes: Vec<NodeId>,
+        // Optional: migration concurrency (default is 8)
+        #[arg(long)]
+        concurrency: Option<usize>,
+        // Optional: maximum number of shards to migrate
+        #[arg(long)]
+        max_shards: Option<usize>,
+        // Optional: when set to true, nothing is migrated, but the plan is printed to stdout
+        #[arg(long)]
+        dry_run: Option<bool>,
+    },
 }

 #[derive(Parser)]
@@ -325,14 +336,18 @@ async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
                .await?;
        }
        Command::TenantCreate { tenant_id } => {
-            vps_client
-                .tenant_create(&TenantCreateRequest {
-                    new_tenant_id: TenantShardId::unsharded(tenant_id),
-                    generation: None,
-                    shard_parameters: ShardParameters::default(),
-                    placement_policy: Some(PlacementPolicy::Attached(1)),
-                    config: TenantConfig::default(),
-                })
+            storcon_client
+                .dispatch(
+                    Method::POST,
+                    "v1/tenant".to_string(),
+                    Some(TenantCreateRequest {
+                        new_tenant_id: TenantShardId::unsharded(tenant_id),
+                        generation: None,
+                        shard_parameters: ShardParameters::default(),
+                        placement_policy: Some(PlacementPolicy::Attached(1)),
+                        config: TenantConfig::default(),
+                    }),
+                )
                .await?;
        }
        Command::TenantDelete { tenant_id } => {
@@ -481,88 +496,6 @@ async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
                })
                .await?;
        }
-        Command::TenantScatter { tenant_id } => {
-            // Find the shards
-            let locate_response = storcon_client
-                .dispatch::<(), TenantLocateResponse>(
-                    Method::GET,
-                    format!("control/v1/tenant/{tenant_id}/locate"),
-                    None,
-                )
-                .await?;
-            let shards = locate_response.shards;
-
-            let mut node_to_shards: HashMap<NodeId, Vec<TenantShardId>> = HashMap::new();
-            let shard_count = shards.len();
-            for s in shards {
-                let entry = node_to_shards.entry(s.node_id).or_default();
-                entry.push(s.shard_id);
-            }
-
-            // Load list of available nodes
-            let nodes_resp = storcon_client
-                .dispatch::<(), Vec<NodeDescribeResponse>>(
-                    Method::GET,
-                    "control/v1/node".to_string(),
-                    None,
-                )
-                .await?;
-
-            for node in nodes_resp {
-                if matches!(node.availability, NodeAvailabilityWrapper::Active) {
-                    node_to_shards.entry(node.id).or_default();
-                }
-            }
-
-            let max_shard_per_node = shard_count / node_to_shards.len();
-
-            loop {
-                let mut migrate_shard = None;
-                for shards in node_to_shards.values_mut() {
-                    if shards.len() > max_shard_per_node {
-                        // Pick the emptiest
-                        migrate_shard = Some(shards.pop().unwrap());
-                    }
-                }
-                let Some(migrate_shard) = migrate_shard else {
-                    break;
-                };
-
-                // Pick the emptiest node to migrate to
-                let mut destinations = node_to_shards
-                    .iter()
-                    .map(|(k, v)| (k, v.len()))
-                    .collect::<Vec<_>>();
-                destinations.sort_by_key(|i| i.1);
-                let (destination_node, destination_count) = *destinations.first().unwrap();
-                if destination_count + 1 > max_shard_per_node {
-                    // Even the emptiest destination doesn't have space: we're done
-                    break;
-                }
-                let destination_node = *destination_node;
-
-                node_to_shards
-                    .get_mut(&destination_node)
-                    .unwrap()
-                    .push(migrate_shard);
-
-                println!("Migrate {} -> {} ...", migrate_shard, destination_node);
-
-                storcon_client
-                    .dispatch::<TenantShardMigrateRequest, TenantShardMigrateResponse>(
-                        Method::PUT,
-                        format!("control/v1/tenant/{migrate_shard}/migrate"),
-                        Some(TenantShardMigrateRequest {
-                            tenant_shard_id: migrate_shard,
-                            node_id: destination_node,
-                        }),
-                    )
-                    .await?;
-                println!("Migrate {} -> {} OK", migrate_shard, destination_node);
-            }
-
-            // Spread the shards across the nodes
-        }
        Command::TenantDescribe { tenant_id } => {
            let describe_response = storcon_client
                .dispatch::<(), TenantDescribeResponse>(
@@ -737,6 +670,194 @@ async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
                })
                .await?;
        }
+        Command::Drain {
+            nodes,
+            concurrency,
+            max_shards,
+            dry_run,
+        } => {
+            // Load the list of nodes, split them up into the drained and filled sets,
+            // and validate that draining is possible.
+            let node_descs = storcon_client
+                .dispatch::<(), Vec<NodeDescribeResponse>>(
+                    Method::GET,
+                    "control/v1/node".to_string(),
+                    None,
+                )
+                .await?;
+
+            let mut node_to_drain_descs = Vec::new();
+            let mut node_to_fill_descs = Vec::new();
+
+            for desc in node_descs {
+                let to_drain = nodes.iter().any(|id| *id == desc.id);
+                if to_drain {
+                    node_to_drain_descs.push(desc);
+                } else {
+                    node_to_fill_descs.push(desc);
+                }
+            }
+
+            if nodes.len() != node_to_drain_descs.len() {
+                anyhow::bail!("Drain requested for node which doesn't exist.")
+            }
+
+            node_to_fill_descs.retain(|desc| {
+                matches!(desc.availability, NodeAvailabilityWrapper::Active)
+                    && matches!(
+                        desc.scheduling,
+                        NodeSchedulingPolicy::Active | NodeSchedulingPolicy::Filling
+                    )
+            });
+
+            if node_to_fill_descs.is_empty() {
+                anyhow::bail!("There are no nodes to drain to")
+            }
+
+            // Set the node scheduling policy to draining for the nodes which
+            // we plan to drain.
+            for node_desc in node_to_drain_descs.iter() {
+                let req = NodeConfigureRequest {
+                    node_id: node_desc.id,
+                    availability: None,
+                    scheduling: Some(NodeSchedulingPolicy::Draining),
+                };
+
+                storcon_client
+                    .dispatch::<_, ()>(
+                        Method::PUT,
+                        format!("control/v1/node/{}/config", node_desc.id),
+                        Some(req),
+                    )
+                    .await?;
+            }
+
+            // Perform the drain: move each tenant shard scheduled on a node to
+            // be drained to a node which is being filled. A simple round robin
+            // strategy is used to pick the new node.
+            let tenants = storcon_client
+                .dispatch::<(), Vec<TenantDescribeResponse>>(
+                    Method::GET,
+                    "control/v1/tenant".to_string(),
+                    None,
+                )
+                .await?;
+
+            let mut selected_node_idx = 0;
+
+            struct DrainMove {
+                tenant_shard_id: TenantShardId,
+                from: NodeId,
+                to: NodeId,
+            }
+
+            let mut moves: Vec<DrainMove> = Vec::new();
+
+            let shards = tenants
+                .into_iter()
+                .flat_map(|tenant| tenant.shards.into_iter());
+            for shard in shards {
+                if let Some(max_shards) = max_shards {
+                    if moves.len() >= max_shards {
+                        println!(
+                            "Stop planning shard moves since the requested maximum was reached"
+                        );
+                        break;
+                    }
+                }
+
+                let should_migrate = {
+                    if let Some(attached_to) = shard.node_attached {
+                        node_to_drain_descs
+                            .iter()
+                            .map(|desc| desc.id)
+                            .any(|id| id == attached_to)
+                    } else {
+                        false
+                    }
+                };
+
+                if !should_migrate {
+                    continue;
+                }
+
+                moves.push(DrainMove {
+                    tenant_shard_id: shard.tenant_shard_id,
+                    from: shard
+                        .node_attached
+                        .expect("We only migrate attached tenant shards"),
+                    to: node_to_fill_descs[selected_node_idx].id,
+                });
+                selected_node_idx = (selected_node_idx + 1) % node_to_fill_descs.len();
+            }
+
+            let total_moves = moves.len();
+
+            if dry_run == Some(true) {
+                println!("Dryrun requested. Planned {total_moves} moves:");
+                for mv in &moves {
+                    println!("{}: {} -> {}", mv.tenant_shard_id, mv.from, mv.to)
+                }
+
+                return Ok(());
+            }
+
+            const DEFAULT_MIGRATE_CONCURRENCY: usize = 8;
+            let mut stream = futures::stream::iter(moves)
+                .map(|mv| {
+                    let client = Client::new(cli.api.clone(), cli.jwt.clone());
+                    async move {
+                        client
+                            .dispatch::<TenantShardMigrateRequest, TenantShardMigrateResponse>(
+                                Method::PUT,
+                                format!("control/v1/tenant/{}/migrate", mv.tenant_shard_id),
+                                Some(TenantShardMigrateRequest {
+                                    tenant_shard_id: mv.tenant_shard_id,
+                                    node_id: mv.to,
+                                }),
+                            )
+                            .await
+                            .map_err(|e| (mv.tenant_shard_id, mv.from, mv.to, e))
+                    }
+                })
+                .buffered(concurrency.unwrap_or(DEFAULT_MIGRATE_CONCURRENCY));
+
+            let mut success = 0;
+            let mut failure = 0;
+
+            while let Some(res) = stream.next().await {
+                match res {
+                    Ok(_) => {
+                        success += 1;
+                    }
+                    Err((tenant_shard_id, from, to, error)) => {
+                        failure += 1;
+                        println!(
+                            "Failed to migrate {} from node {} to node {}: {}",
+                            tenant_shard_id, from, to, error
+                        );
+                    }
+                }
+
+                if (success + failure) % 20 == 0 {
+                    println!(
+                        "Processed {}/{} shards: {} succeeded, {} failed",
+                        success + failure,
+                        total_moves,
+                        success,
+                        failure
+                    );
+                }
+            }
+
+            println!(
+                "Processed {}/{} shards: {} succeeded, {} failed",
+                success + failure,
+                total_moves,
+                success,
+                failure
+            );
+        }
    }

    Ok(())
--- a/docker-compose/README.md
+++ b/docker-compose/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+
+# Example docker compose configuration
+
+The configuration in this directory is used for testing Neon docker images: it is
+not intended for deploying a usable system.  To run a development environment where
+you can experiment with a minature Neon system, use `cargo neon` rather than container images.
+
+This configuration does not start the storage controller, because the controller
+needs a way to reconfigure running computes, and no such thing exists in this setup.
+
--- a/docker-compose/compute_wrapper/shell/compute.sh
+++ b/docker-compose/compute_wrapper/shell/compute.sh
@@ -23,11 +23,10 @@ echo "Page server is ready."
 echo "Create a tenant and timeline"
 generate_id tenant_id
 PARAMS=(
-     -sb 
-     -X POST
+     -X PUT
     -H "Content-Type: application/json"
-     -d "{\"new_tenant_id\": \"${tenant_id}\"}"
-     http://pageserver:9898/v1/tenant/
+     -d "{\"mode\": \"AttachedSingle\", \"generation\": 1, \"tenant_conf\": {}}"
+     "http://pageserver:9898/v1/tenant/${tenant_id}/location_config"
 )
 result=$(curl "${PARAMS[@]}")
 echo $result | jq .
--- a/docker-compose/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose/docker-compose.yml
@@ -159,12 +159,12 @@ services:
      context: ./compute_wrapper/
      args:
        - REPOSITORY=${REPOSITORY:-neondatabase}
-        - COMPUTE_IMAGE=compute-node-v${PG_VERSION:-14}
+        - COMPUTE_IMAGE=compute-node-v${PG_VERSION:-16}
        - TAG=${TAG:-latest}
        - http_proxy=$http_proxy
        - https_proxy=$https_proxy
    environment:
-      - PG_VERSION=${PG_VERSION:-14}
+      - PG_VERSION=${PG_VERSION:-16}
      #- RUST_BACKTRACE=1
    # Mount the test files directly, for faster editing cycle.
    volumes:
@@ -194,6 +194,7 @@ services:
      - compute

  neon-test-extensions:
+    profiles: ["test-extensions"]
    image: ${REPOSITORY:-neondatabase}/neon-test-extensions-v${PG_TEST_VERSION:-16}:${TAG:-latest}
    entrypoint:
      - "/bin/bash"
--- a/docker-compose/docker_compose_test.sh
+++ b/docker-compose/docker_compose_test.sh
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ set -eux -o pipefail

 COMPOSE_FILE='docker-compose.yml'
 cd $(dirname $0)
-docker compose -f $COMPOSE_FILE 
 COMPUTE_CONTAINER_NAME=docker-compose-compute-1
 TEST_CONTAINER_NAME=docker-compose-neon-test-extensions-1
 PSQL_OPTION="-h localhost -U cloud_admin -p 55433 -d postgres"
@@ -26,16 +25,16 @@ export http_proxy https_proxy
 cleanup() {
    echo "show container information"
    docker ps
-    docker compose -f $COMPOSE_FILE logs
+    docker compose --profile test-extensions -f $COMPOSE_FILE logs
    echo "stop containers..."
-    docker compose -f $COMPOSE_FILE down
+    docker compose --profile test-extensions -f $COMPOSE_FILE down
 }

 for pg_version in 14 15 16; do
    echo "clean up containers if exists"
    cleanup
    PG_TEST_VERSION=$(($pg_version < 16 ? 16 : $pg_version))
-    PG_VERSION=$pg_version PG_TEST_VERSION=$PG_TEST_VERSION docker compose -f $COMPOSE_FILE up --build -d
+    PG_VERSION=$pg_version PG_TEST_VERSION=$PG_TEST_VERSION docker compose --profile test-extensions -f $COMPOSE_FILE up --build -d

    echo "wait until the compute is ready. timeout after 60s. "
    cnt=0
@@ -47,7 +46,7 @@ for pg_version in 14 15 16; do
            cleanup
            exit 1
        fi
-        if docker compose -f $COMPOSE_FILE logs "compute_is_ready" | grep -q "accepting connections"; then
+        if docker compose --profile test-extensions -f $COMPOSE_FILE logs "compute_is_ready" | grep -q "accepting connections"; then
            echo "OK. The compute is ready to connect."
            echo "execute simple queries."
            docker exec $COMPUTE_CONTAINER_NAME /bin/bash -c "psql $PSQL_OPTION"
--- a/docs/core_changes.md
+++ b/docs/core_changes.md
@@ -11,15 +11,28 @@ page server. We currently use the same binary for both, with --wal-redo runtime
 the WAL redo mode. Some PostgreSQL changes are needed in the compute node, while others are just for
 the WAL redo process.

-In addition to core PostgreSQL changes, there is a Neon extension in contrib/neon, to hook into the
-smgr interface. Once all the core changes have been submitted to upstream or eliminated some other
-way, the extension could live outside the postgres repository and build against vanilla PostgreSQL.
+In addition to core PostgreSQL changes, there is a Neon extension in the pgxn/neon directory that
+hooks into the smgr interface, and rmgr extension in pgxn/neon_rmgr. The extensions are loaded into
+the Postgres processes with shared_preload_libraries. Most of the Neon-specific code is in the
+extensions, and for any new features, that is preferred over modifying core PostgreSQL code.

 Below is a list of all the PostgreSQL source code changes, categorized into changes needed for
 compute, and changes needed for the WAL redo process:

 # Changes for Compute node

+## Prefetching
+
+There are changes in many places to perform prefetching, for example for sequential scans. Neon
+doesn't benefit from OS readahead, and the latency to pageservers is quite high compared to local
+disk, so prefetching is critical for performance, also for sequential scans.
+
+### How to get rid of the patch
+
+Upcoming "streaming read" work in v17 might simplify this. And async I/O work in v18 will hopefully
+do more.
+
+
 ## Add t_cid to heap WAL records

 ```
@@ -37,54 +50,11 @@ The problem is that the XLOG_HEAP_INSERT record does not include the command id

 Bite the bullet and submit the patch to PostgreSQL, to add the t_cid to the WAL records. It makes the WAL records larger, which could make this unpopular in the PostgreSQL community. However, it might simplify some logical decoding code; Andres Freund briefly mentioned in PGCon 2022 discussion on Heikki's Neon presentation that logical decoding currently needs to jump through some hoops to reconstruct the same information.

+Update from Heikki (2024-04-17): I tried to write an upstream patch for that, to use the t_cid field for logical decoding, but it was not as straightforward as it first sounded.

 ### Alternatives
 Perhaps we could write an extra WAL record with the t_cid information, when a page is evicted that contains rows that were touched a transaction that's still running. However, that seems very complicated.

-## ginfast.c
-
-```
-diff --git a/src/backend/access/gin/ginfast.c b/src/backend/access/gin/ginfast.c
-index e0d9940946..2d964c02e9 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/gin/ginfast.c
-+++ b/src/backend/access/gin/ginfast.c
-@@ -285,6 +285,17 @@ ginHeapTupleFastInsert(GinState *ginstate, GinTupleCollector *collector)
-                memset(&sublist, 0, sizeof(GinMetaPageData));
-                makeSublist(index, collector->tuples, collector->ntuples, &sublist);
- 
-+               if (metadata->head != InvalidBlockNumber)
-+               {
-+                       /*
-+                        * ZENITH: Get buffer before XLogBeginInsert() to avoid recursive call
-+                        * of XLogBeginInsert(). Reading a new buffer might evict a dirty page from
-+                        * the buffer cache, and if that page happens to be an FSM or VM page, zenith_write()
-+                        * will try to WAL-log an image of the page.
-+                        */
-+                       buffer = ReadBuffer(index, metadata->tail);
-+               }
-+
-                if (needWal)
-                        XLogBeginInsert();
- 
-@@ -316,7 +327,6 @@ ginHeapTupleFastInsert(GinState *ginstate, GinTupleCollector *collector)
-                        data.prevTail = metadata->tail;
-                        data.newRightlink = sublist.head;
- 
-                       buffer = ReadBuffer(index, metadata->tail);
-                        LockBuffer(buffer, GIN_EXCLUSIVE);
-                        page = BufferGetPage(buffer);
-```
-
-The problem is explained in the comment above
-
-### How to get rid of the patch
-
-Can we stop WAL-logging FSM or VM pages? Or delay the WAL logging until we're out of the critical
-section or something.
-
-Maybe some bigger rewrite of FSM and VM would help to avoid WAL-logging FSM and VM page images?
-
-
 ## Mark index builds that use buffer manager without logging explicitly

 ```
@@ -95,6 +65,8 @@ Maybe some bigger rewrite of FSM and VM would help to avoid WAL-logging FSM and
 also some changes in src/backend/storage/smgr/smgr.c
 ```

+pgvector 0.6.0 also needs a similar change, which would be very nice to get rid of too.
+
 When a GIN index is built, for example, it is built by inserting the entries into the index more or
 less normally, but without WAL-logging anything. After the index has been built, we iterate through
 all pages and write them to the WAL. That doesn't work for Neon, because if a page is not WAL-logged
@@ -109,6 +81,10 @@ an operation: `smgr_start_unlogged_build`, `smgr_finish_unlogged_build_phase_1`
 I think it would make sense to be more explicit about that in PostgreSQL too. So extract these
 changes to a patch and post to pgsql-hackers.

+Perhaps we could deduce that an unlogged index build has started when we see a page being evicted
+with zero LSN. How to be sure it's an unlogged index build rather than a bug? Currently we have a
+check for that and PANIC if we see page with zero LSN being evicted. And how do we detect when the
+index build has finished? See https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/7440 for an attempt at that.

 ## Track last-written page LSN

@@ -140,57 +116,6 @@ The old method is still available, though.
 Wait until v15?


-## Cache relation sizes
-
-The Neon extension contains a little cache for smgrnblocks() and smgrexists() calls, to avoid going
-to the page server every time. It might be useful to cache those in PostgreSQL, maybe in the
-relcache? (I think we do cache nblocks in relcache already, check why that's not good enough for
-Neon)
-
-
-## Use buffer manager when extending VM or FSM
-
-```
- src/backend/storage/freespace/freespace.c                   |   14 +-
- src/backend/access/heap/visibilitymap.c                     |   15 +-
-
-diff --git a/src/backend/access/heap/visibilitymap.c b/src/backend/access/heap/visibilitymap.c
-index e198df65d8..addfe93eac 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/heap/visibilitymap.c
-+++ b/src/backend/access/heap/visibilitymap.c
-@@ -652,10 +652,19 @@ vm_extend(Relation rel, BlockNumber vm_nblocks)
-        /* Now extend the file */
-        while (vm_nblocks_now < vm_nblocks)
-        {
-               PageSetChecksumInplace((Page) pg.data, vm_nblocks_now);
-+               /*
-+                * ZENITH: Initialize VM pages through buffer cache to prevent loading
-+                * them from pageserver.
-+                */
-+               Buffer  buffer = ReadBufferExtended(rel, VISIBILITYMAP_FORKNUM, P_NEW,
-+                                                                                       RBM_ZERO_AND_LOCK, NULL);
-+               Page    page = BufferGetPage(buffer);
-+
-+               PageInit((Page) page, BLCKSZ, 0);
-+               PageSetChecksumInplace(page, vm_nblocks_now);
-+               MarkBufferDirty(buffer);
-+               UnlockReleaseBuffer(buffer);
- 
-               smgrextend(rel->rd_smgr, VISIBILITYMAP_FORKNUM, vm_nblocks_now,
-                                  pg.data, false);
-                vm_nblocks_now++;
-        }
-```
-
-### Problem we're trying to solve
-
-???
-
-### How to get rid of the patch
-
-Maybe this would be a reasonable change in PostgreSQL too?
-
-
 ## Allow startup without reading checkpoint record

 In Neon, the compute node is stateless. So when we are launching compute node, we need to provide
@@ -231,7 +156,7 @@ index 0415df9ccb..9f9db3c8bc 100644
  * crash we can lose (skip over) as many values as we pre-logged.
  */
 -#define SEQ_LOG_VALS   32
-+/* Zenith XXX: to ensure sequence order of sequence in Zenith we need to WAL log each sequence update. */
+/* Neon XXX: to ensure sequence order of sequence in Zenith we need to WAL log each sequence update. */
 +/* #define SEQ_LOG_VALS        32 */
 +#define SEQ_LOG_VALS   0
 ```
@@ -250,66 +175,6 @@ would be weird if the sequence moved backwards though, think of PITR.
 Or add a GUC for the amount to prefix to PostgreSQL, and force it to 1 in Neon.


-## Walproposer
-
-```
- src/Makefile                                                |    1 +
- src/backend/replication/libpqwalproposer/Makefile           |   37 +
- src/backend/replication/libpqwalproposer/libpqwalproposer.c |  416 ++++++++++++
- src/backend/postmaster/bgworker.c                           |    4 +
- src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c                         |    6 +
- src/backend/replication/Makefile                            |    4 +-
- src/backend/replication/walproposer.c                       | 2350 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
- src/backend/replication/walproposer_utils.c                 |  402 +++++++++++
- src/backend/replication/walreceiver.c                       |    7 +
- src/backend/replication/walsender.c                         |  320 ++++++---
- src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c                              |    6 +
- src/include/replication/walproposer.h                       |  565 ++++++++++++++++
-```
-
-WAL proposer is communicating with safekeeper and ensures WAL durability by quorum writes.  It is
-currently implemented as patch to standard WAL sender.
-
-### How to get rid of the patch
-
-Refactor into an extension. Submit hooks or APIs into upstream if necessary.
-
-@MMeent did some work on this already: https://github.com/neondatabase/postgres/pull/96
-
-## Ignore unexpected data beyond EOF in bufmgr.c
-
-```
-@@ -922,11 +928,14 @@ ReadBuffer_common(SMgrRelation smgr, char relpersistence, ForkNumber forkNum,
-                 */
-                bufBlock = isLocalBuf ? LocalBufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr) : BufHdrGetBlock(bufHdr);
-                if (!PageIsNew((Page) bufBlock))
-                       ereport(ERROR,
-+               {
-+                        // XXX-ZENITH
-+                        MemSet((char *) bufBlock, 0, BLCKSZ);
-+                        ereport(DEBUG1,
-                                        (errmsg("unexpected data beyond EOF in block %u of relation %s",
-                                                        blockNum, relpath(smgr->smgr_rnode, forkNum)),
-                                         errhint("This has been seen to occur with buggy kernels; consider updating your system.")));
-
-+               }
-                /*
-                 * We *must* do smgrextend before succeeding, else the page will not
-                 * be reserved by the kernel, and the next P_NEW call will decide to
-```
-
-PostgreSQL is a bit sloppy with extending relations. Usually, the relation is extended with zeros
-first, then the page is filled, and finally the new page WAL-logged. But if multiple backends extend
-a relation at the same time, the pages can be WAL-logged in different order.
-
-I'm not sure what scenario exactly required this change in Neon, though.
-
-### How to get rid of the patch
-
-Submit patches to pgsql-hackers, to tighten up the WAL-logging around relation extension. It's a bit
-confusing even in PostgreSQL. Maybe WAL log the intention to extend first, then extend the relation,
-and finally WAL-log that the extension succeeded.
-
 ## Make smgr interface available to extensions

 ```
@@ -321,6 +186,8 @@ and finally WAL-log that the extension succeeded.

 Submit to upstream. This could be useful for the Disk Encryption patches too, or for compression.

+We have submitted this to upstream, but it's moving at glacial a speed.
+https://commitfest.postgresql.org/47/4428/

 ## Added relpersistence argument to smgropen()

@@ -444,6 +311,148 @@ Ignore it. This is only needed for disaster recovery, so once we've eliminated a
 patches, we can just keep it around as a patch or as separate branch in a repo.


+## pg_waldump flags to ignore errors
+
+After creating a new project or branch in Neon, the first timeline can begin in the middle of a WAL segment. pg_waldump chokes on that, so we added some flags to make it possible to ignore errors.
+
+### How to get rid of the patch
+
+Like previous one, ignore it.
+
+
+
+## Backpressure if pageserver doesn't ingest WAL fast enough
+
+```
+@@ -3200,6 +3202,7 @@ ProcessInterrupts(void)
+                return;
+        InterruptPending = false;
+ 
+retry:
+        if (ProcDiePending)
+        {
+                ProcDiePending = false;
+@@ -3447,6 +3450,13 @@ ProcessInterrupts(void)
+ 
+        if (ParallelApplyMessagePending)
+                HandleParallelApplyMessages();
+
+       /* Call registered callback if any */
+       if (ProcessInterruptsCallback)
+       {
+               if (ProcessInterruptsCallback())
+                       goto retry;
+       }
+ }
+```
+
+
+### How to get rid of the patch
+
+Submit a patch to upstream, for a hook in ProcessInterrupts. Could be useful for other extensions
+too.
+
+
+## SLRU on-demand download
+
+```
+ src/backend/access/transam/slru.c | 105 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
+ 1 file changed, 92 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
+```
+
+### Problem we're trying to solve
+
+Previously, SLRU files were included in the basebackup, but the total size of them can be large,
+several GB, and downloading them all made the startup time too long.
+
+### Alternatives
+
+FUSE hook or LD_PRELOAD trick to intercept the reads on SLRU files
+
+
+## WAL-log an all-zeros page as one large hole
+
+- In XLogRecordAssemble()
+
+### Problem we're trying to solve
+
+This change was made in v16. Starting with v16, when PostgreSQL extends a relation, it first extends
+it with zeros, and it can extend the relation more than one block at a time. The all-zeros page is WAL-ogged, but it's very wasteful to include 8 kB of zeros in the WAL for that. This hack was made so that we WAL logged a compact record with a whole-page "hole". However, PostgreSQL has assertions that prevent that such WAL records from being replayed, so this breaks compatibility such that unmodified PostreSQL cannot process Neon-generated WAL.
+
+### How to get rid of the patch
+
+Find another compact representation for a full-page image of an all-zeros page. A compressed image perhaps.
+
+
+## Shut down walproposer after checkpointer
+
+```
+                       /* Neon: Also allow walproposer background worker to be treated like a WAL sender, so that it's shut down last */
+                       if ((bp->bkend_type == BACKEND_TYPE_NORMAL || bp->bkend_type == BACKEND_TYPE_BGWORKER) &&
+```
+
+This changes was needed so that postmaster shuts down the walproposer process only after the shutdown checkpoint record is written. Otherwise, the shutdown record will never make it to the safekeepers.
+
+### How to get rid of the patch
+
+Do a bigger refactoring of the postmaster state machine, such that a background worker can specify
+the shutdown ordering by itself. The postmaster state machine has grown pretty complicated, and
+would benefit from a refactoring for the sake of readability anyway.
+
+
+## EXPLAIN changes for prefetch and LFC
+
+### How to get rid of the patch
+
+Konstantin submitted a patch to -hackers already: https://commitfest.postgresql.org/47/4643/. Get that into a committable state.
+
+
+## On-demand download of extensions
+
+### How to get rid of the patch
+
+FUSE or LD_PRELOAD trickery to intercept reads?
+
+
+## Publication superuser checks
+
+We have hacked CreatePublication so that also neon_superuser can create them.
+
+### How to get rid of the patch
+
+Create an upstream patch with more fine-grained privileges for publications CREATE/DROP that can be GRANTed to users.
+
+
+## WAL log replication slots
+
+### How to get rid of the patch
+
+Utilize the upcoming v17 "slot sync worker", or a similar neon-specific background worker process, to periodically WAL-log the slots, or to export them somewhere else.
+
+
+## WAL-log replication snapshots
+
+### How to get rid of the patch
+
+WAL-log them periodically, from a backgound worker.
+
+
+## WAL-log relmapper files
+
+Similarly to replications snapshot files, the CID mapping files generated during VACUUM FULL of a catalog table are WAL-logged
+
+### How to get rid of the patch
+
+WAL-log them periodically, from a backgound worker.
+
+
+## XLogWaitForReplayOf()
+
+??
+
+
+
+
 # Not currently committed but proposed

 ## Disable ring buffer buffer manager strategies
@@ -472,23 +481,10 @@ hint bits are set. Wal logging hint bits updates requires FPI which significantl

 Add special WAL record for setting page hints.

-## Prefetching
-
-### Why?
-
-As far as pages in Neon are loaded on demand, to reduce node startup time
-and also speedup some massive queries we need some mechanism for bulk loading to
-reduce page request round-trip overhead.
-
-Currently Postgres is supporting prefetching only for bitmap scan.
-In Neon we should also use prefetch for sequential and index scans, because the OS is not doing it for us.
-For sequential scan we could prefetch some number of following pages. For index scan we could prefetch pages
-of heap relation addressed by TIDs.
-
 ## Prewarming

 ### Why?

-Short downtime (or, in other words, fast compute node restart time) is one of the key feature of Zenith.
+Short downtime (or, in other words, fast compute node restart time) is one of the key feature of Neon.
 But overhead of request-response round-trip for loading pages on demand can make started node warm-up quite slow.
 We can capture state of compute node buffer cache and send bulk request for this pages at startup.
--- a/docs/docker.md
+++ b/docs/docker.md
@@ -4,18 +4,18 @@

 Currently we build two main images:

- [neondatabase/neon](https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/zenithdb/zenith) — image with pre-built `pageserver`, `safekeeper` and `proxy` binaries and all the required runtime dependencies. Built from [/Dockerfile](/Dockerfile).
- [neondatabase/compute-node](https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/zenithdb/compute-node) — compute node image with pre-built Postgres binaries from [neondatabase/postgres](https://github.com/neondatabase/postgres).
+- [neondatabase/neon](https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/neondatabase/neon) — image with pre-built `pageserver`, `safekeeper` and `proxy` binaries and all the required runtime dependencies. Built from [/Dockerfile](/Dockerfile).
+- [neondatabase/compute-node-v16](https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/neondatabase/compute-node-v16) — compute node image with pre-built Postgres binaries from [neondatabase/postgres](https://github.com/neondatabase/postgres). Similar images exist for v15 and v14.

 And additional intermediate image:

 - [neondatabase/compute-tools](https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/neondatabase/compute-tools) — compute node configuration management tools.

-## Building pipeline
+## Build pipeline

 We build all images after a successful `release` tests run and push automatically to Docker Hub with two parallel CI jobs

-1. `neondatabase/compute-tools` and `neondatabase/compute-node`
+1. `neondatabase/compute-tools` and `neondatabase/compute-node-v16` (and -v15 and -v14)

 2. `neondatabase/neon`

@@ -34,12 +34,12 @@ You can see a [docker compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/) example to crea
 1. create containers

 You can specify version of neon cluster using following environment values.
- PG_VERSION: postgres version for compute (default is 14)
- TAG: the tag version of [docker image](https://registry.hub.docker.com/r/neondatabase/neon/tags) (default is latest), which is tagged in [CI test](/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml)
+- PG_VERSION: postgres version for compute (default is 16 as of this writing)
+- TAG: the tag version of [docker image](https://registry.hub.docker.com/r/neondatabase/neon/tags), which is tagged in [CI test](/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml). Default is 'latest'
 ```
 $ cd docker-compose/
 $ docker-compose down   # remove the containers if exists
-$ PG_VERSION=15 TAG=2937 docker-compose up --build -d  # You can specify the postgres and image version
+$ PG_VERSION=16 TAG=latest docker-compose up --build -d  # You can specify the postgres and image version
 Creating network "dockercompose_default" with the default driver
 Creating docker-compose_storage_broker_1       ... done
 (...omit...)
@@ -47,29 +47,31 @@ Creating docker-compose_storage_broker_1       ... done

 2. connect compute node
 ```
-$ echo "localhost:55433:postgres:cloud_admin:cloud_admin" >> ~/.pgpass
-$ chmod 600 ~/.pgpass
-$ psql -h localhost -p 55433 -U cloud_admin
+$ psql postgresql://cloud_admin:cloud_admin@localhost:55433/postgres
+psql (16.3)
+Type "help" for help.
+
 postgres=# CREATE TABLE t(key int primary key, value text);
 CREATE TABLE
-postgres=# insert into t values(1,1);
+postgres=# insert into t values(1, 1);
 INSERT 0 1
 postgres=# select * from t;
- key | value
+ key | value 
 -----+-------
   1 | 1
 (1 row)
+
 ```

 3. If you want to see the log, you can use `docker-compose logs` command.
 ```
 # check the container name you want to see
 $ docker ps
-CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                                              COMMAND                  CREATED         STATUS         PORTS                                                                                                                                  NAMES
-d6968a5ae912   dockercompose_compute                              "/shell/compute.sh"      5 minutes ago   Up 5 minutes   0.0.0.0:3080->3080/tcp, 0.0.0.0:55433->55433/tcp                                                                                       dockercompose_compute_1
+CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                                              COMMAND                  CREATED         STATUS         PORTS                                                                                      NAMES
+3582f6d76227   docker-compose_compute                             "/shell/compute.sh"      2 minutes ago   Up 2 minutes   0.0.0.0:3080->3080/tcp, :::3080->3080/tcp, 0.0.0.0:55433->55433/tcp, :::55433->55433/tcp   docker-compose_compute_1
 (...omit...)

-$ docker logs -f dockercompose_compute_1
+$ docker logs -f docker-compose_compute_1
 2022-10-21 06:15:48.757 GMT [56] LOG:  connection authorized: user=cloud_admin database=postgres application_name=psql
 2022-10-21 06:17:00.307 GMT [56] LOG:  [NEON_SMGR] libpagestore: connected to 'host=pageserver port=6400'
 (...omit...)
--- a/docs/pageserver-pagecache.md
+++ b/docs/pageserver-pagecache.md
@@ -5,4 +5,3 @@ TODO:
 - shared across tenants
 - store pages from layer files
 - store pages from "in-memory layer"
- store materialized pages
--- a/docs/pageserver-services.md
+++ b/docs/pageserver-services.md
@@ -101,11 +101,12 @@ or
 ```toml
 [remote_storage]
 container_name = 'some-container-name'
+storage_account = 'somestorageaccnt'
 container_region = 'us-east'
 prefix_in_container = '/test-prefix/'
 ```

-`AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT` and `AZURE_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY` env variables can be used to specify the azure credentials if needed.
+The `AZURE_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY` env variable can be used to specify the azure credentials if needed.

 ## Repository background tasks

--- a/docs/settings.md
+++ b/docs/settings.md
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ depends on that, so if you change it, bad things will happen.

 #### page_cache_size

-Size of the page cache, to hold materialized page versions. Unit is
+Size of the page cache. Unit is
 number of 8 kB blocks. The default is 8192, which means 64 MB.

 #### max_file_descriptors
--- a/libs/compute_api/src/spec.rs
+++ b/libs/compute_api/src/spec.rs
@@ -96,12 +96,6 @@ pub struct ComputeSpec {
    // Stripe size for pageserver sharding, in pages
    #[serde(default)]
    pub shard_stripe_size: Option<usize>,
-
-    // When we are starting a new replica in hot standby mode,
-    // we need to know if the primary is running.
-    // This is used to determine if replica should wait for
-    // RUNNING_XACTS from primary or not.
-    pub primary_is_running: Option<bool>,
 }

 /// Feature flag to signal `compute_ctl` to enable certain experimental functionality.
--- a/libs/metrics/src/lib.rs
+++ b/libs/metrics/src/lib.rs
@@ -103,9 +103,10 @@ static MAXRSS_KB: Lazy<IntGauge> = Lazy::new(|| {
    .expect("Failed to register maxrss_kb int gauge")
 });

-pub const DISK_WRITE_SECONDS_BUCKETS: &[f64] = &[
-    0.000_050, 0.000_100, 0.000_500, 0.001, 0.003, 0.005, 0.01, 0.05, 0.1, 0.3, 0.5,
-];
+/// Most common fsync latency is 50 µs - 100 µs, but it can be much higher,
+/// especially during many concurrent disk operations.
+pub const DISK_FSYNC_SECONDS_BUCKETS: &[f64] =
+    &[0.001, 0.005, 0.01, 0.05, 0.1, 0.5, 1.0, 5.0, 10.0, 30.0];

 pub struct BuildInfo {
    pub revision: &'static str,
--- a/libs/pageserver_api/src/controller_api.rs
+++ b/libs/pageserver_api/src/controller_api.rs
@@ -11,6 +11,27 @@ use crate::{
    shard::{ShardStripeSize, TenantShardId},
 };

+#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug)]
+#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
+pub struct TenantCreateRequest {
+    pub new_tenant_id: TenantShardId,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub generation: Option<u32>,
+
+    // If omitted, create a single shard with TenantShardId::unsharded()
+    #[serde(default)]
+    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "ShardParameters::is_unsharded")]
+    pub shard_parameters: ShardParameters,
+
+    #[serde(default)]
+    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub placement_policy: Option<PlacementPolicy>,
+
+    #[serde(flatten)]
+    pub config: TenantConfig, // as we have a flattened field, we should reject all unknown fields in it
+}
+
 #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
 pub struct TenantCreateResponseShard {
    pub shard_id: TenantShardId,
@@ -209,6 +230,7 @@ pub enum NodeSchedulingPolicy {
    Active,
    Filling,
    Pause,
+    PauseForRestart,
    Draining,
 }

@@ -220,6 +242,7 @@ impl FromStr for NodeSchedulingPolicy {
            "active" => Ok(Self::Active),
            "filling" => Ok(Self::Filling),
            "pause" => Ok(Self::Pause),
+            "pause_for_restart" => Ok(Self::PauseForRestart),
            "draining" => Ok(Self::Draining),
            _ => Err(anyhow::anyhow!("Unknown scheduling state '{s}'")),
        }
@@ -233,6 +256,7 @@ impl From<NodeSchedulingPolicy> for String {
            Active => "active",
            Filling => "filling",
            Pause => "pause",
+            PauseForRestart => "pause_for_restart",
            Draining => "draining",
        }
        .to_string()
@@ -277,4 +301,19 @@ mod test {
        assert_eq!(serde_json::from_str::<PlacementPolicy>(&encoded)?, v);
        Ok(())
    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_reject_unknown_field() {
+        let id = TenantId::generate();
+        let create_request = serde_json::json!({
+            "new_tenant_id": id.to_string(),
+            "unknown_field": "unknown_value".to_string(),
+        });
+        let err = serde_json::from_value::<TenantCreateRequest>(create_request).unwrap_err();
+        assert!(
+            err.to_string().contains("unknown field `unknown_field`"),
+            "expect unknown field `unknown_field` error, got: {}",
+            err
+        );
+    }
 }
--- a/libs/pageserver_api/src/key.rs
+++ b/libs/pageserver_api/src/key.rs
@@ -160,8 +160,9 @@ impl Key {
        key
    }

-    /// Convert a 18B slice to a key. This function should not be used for metadata keys because field2 is handled differently.
-    /// Use [`Key::from_i128`] instead if you want to handle 16B keys (i.e., metadata keys).
+    /// Convert a 18B slice to a key. This function should not be used for 16B metadata keys because `field2` is handled differently.
+    /// Use [`Key::from_i128`] instead if you want to handle 16B keys (i.e., metadata keys). There are some restrictions on `field2`,
+    /// and therefore not all 18B slices are valid page server keys.
    pub fn from_slice(b: &[u8]) -> Self {
        Key {
            field1: b[0],
@@ -173,7 +174,7 @@ impl Key {
        }
    }

-    /// Convert a key to a 18B slice. This function should not be used for metadata keys because field2 is handled differently.
+    /// Convert a key to a 18B slice. This function should not be used for getting a 16B metadata key because `field2` is handled differently.
    /// Use [`Key::to_i128`] instead if you want to get a 16B key (i.e., metadata keys).
    pub fn write_to_byte_slice(&self, buf: &mut [u8]) {
        buf[0] = self.field1;
--- a/libs/pageserver_api/src/keyspace.rs
+++ b/libs/pageserver_api/src/keyspace.rs
@@ -558,6 +558,12 @@ impl KeySpaceRandomAccum {
        self.ranges.push(range);
    }

+    pub fn add_keyspace(&mut self, keyspace: KeySpace) {
+        for range in keyspace.ranges {
+            self.add_range(range);
+        }
+    }
+
    pub fn to_keyspace(mut self) -> KeySpace {
        let mut ranges = Vec::new();
        if !self.ranges.is_empty() {
--- a/libs/pageserver_api/src/models.rs
+++ b/libs/pageserver_api/src/models.rs
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ use utils::{
    serde_system_time,
 };

-use crate::controller_api::PlacementPolicy;
 use crate::{
    reltag::RelTag,
    shard::{ShardCount, ShardStripeSize, TenantShardId},
@@ -177,6 +176,20 @@ serde_with::serde_conv!(
    |value: String| -> Result<_, humantime::TimestampError> { humantime::parse_rfc3339(&value) }
 );

+impl LsnLease {
+    /// The default length for an explicit LSN lease request (10 minutes).
+    pub const DEFAULT_LENGTH: Duration = Duration::from_secs(10 * 60);
+
+    /// The default length for an implicit LSN lease granted during
+    /// `get_lsn_by_timestamp` request (1 minutes).
+    pub const DEFAULT_LENGTH_FOR_TS: Duration = Duration::from_secs(60);
+
+    /// Checks whether the lease is expired.
+    pub fn is_expired(&self, now: &SystemTime) -> bool {
+        now > &self.valid_until
+    }
+}
+
 /// The only [`TenantState`] variants we could be `TenantState::Activating` from.
 #[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq, serde::Serialize, serde::Deserialize)]
 pub enum ActivatingFrom {
@@ -257,44 +270,6 @@ impl Default for ShardParameters {
    }
 }

-#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug)]
-#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
-pub struct TenantCreateRequest {
-    pub new_tenant_id: TenantShardId,
-    #[serde(default)]
-    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
-    pub generation: Option<u32>,
-
-    // If omitted, create a single shard with TenantShardId::unsharded()
-    #[serde(default)]
-    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "ShardParameters::is_unsharded")]
-    pub shard_parameters: ShardParameters,
-
-    // This parameter is only meaningful in requests sent to the storage controller
-    #[serde(default)]
-    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
-    pub placement_policy: Option<PlacementPolicy>,
-
-    #[serde(flatten)]
-    pub config: TenantConfig, // as we have a flattened field, we should reject all unknown fields in it
-}
-
-#[derive(Deserialize, Debug)]
-#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
-pub struct TenantLoadRequest {
-    #[serde(default)]
-    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
-    pub generation: Option<u32>,
-}
-
-impl std::ops::Deref for TenantCreateRequest {
-    type Target = TenantConfig;
-
-    fn deref(&self) -> &Self::Target {
-        &self.config
-    }
-}
-
 /// An alternative representation of `pageserver::tenant::TenantConf` with
 /// simpler types.
 #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug, Default, Clone, Eq, PartialEq)]
@@ -322,6 +297,8 @@ pub struct TenantConfig {
    pub timeline_get_throttle: Option<ThrottleConfig>,
    pub image_layer_creation_check_threshold: Option<u8>,
    pub switch_aux_file_policy: Option<AuxFilePolicy>,
+    pub lsn_lease_length: Option<String>,
+    pub lsn_lease_length_for_ts: Option<String>,
 }

 /// The policy for the aux file storage. It can be switched through `switch_aux_file_policy`
@@ -547,10 +524,6 @@ pub struct LocationConfigListResponse {
    pub tenant_shards: Vec<(TenantShardId, Option<LocationConfig>)>,
 }

-#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
-#[serde(transparent)]
-pub struct TenantCreateResponse(pub TenantId);
-
 #[derive(Serialize)]
 pub struct StatusResponse {
    pub id: NodeId,
@@ -607,31 +580,6 @@ impl TenantConfigRequest {
    }
 }

-#[derive(Debug, Deserialize)]
-pub struct TenantAttachRequest {
-    #[serde(default)]
-    pub config: TenantAttachConfig,
-    #[serde(default)]
-    pub generation: Option<u32>,
-}
-
-/// Newtype to enforce deny_unknown_fields on TenantConfig for
-/// its usage inside `TenantAttachRequest`.
-#[derive(Debug, Serialize, Deserialize, Default)]
-#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
-pub struct TenantAttachConfig {
-    #[serde(flatten)]
-    allowing_unknown_fields: TenantConfig,
-}
-
-impl std::ops::Deref for TenantAttachConfig {
-    type Target = TenantConfig;
-
-    fn deref(&self) -> &Self::Target {
-        &self.allowing_unknown_fields
-    }
-}
-
 /// See [`TenantState::attachment_status`] and the OpenAPI docs for context.
 #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Clone)]
 #[serde(tag = "slug", content = "data", rename_all = "snake_case")]
@@ -650,8 +598,7 @@ pub struct TenantInfo {
    /// If a layer is present in both local FS and S3, it counts only once.
    pub current_physical_size: Option<u64>, // physical size is only included in `tenant_status` endpoint
    pub attachment_status: TenantAttachmentStatus,
-    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
-    pub generation: Option<u32>,
+    pub generation: u32,
 }

 #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Clone)]
@@ -1478,7 +1425,7 @@ mod tests {
            state: TenantState::Active,
            current_physical_size: Some(42),
            attachment_status: TenantAttachmentStatus::Attached,
-            generation: None,
+            generation: 1,
        };
        let expected_active = json!({
            "id": original_active.id.to_string(),
@@ -1488,7 +1435,8 @@ mod tests {
            "current_physical_size": 42,
            "attachment_status": {
                "slug":"attached",
-            }
+            },
+            "generation" : 1
        });

        let original_broken = TenantInfo {
@@ -1499,7 +1447,7 @@ mod tests {
            },
            current_physical_size: Some(42),
            attachment_status: TenantAttachmentStatus::Attached,
-            generation: None,
+            generation: 1,
        };
        let expected_broken = json!({
            "id": original_broken.id.to_string(),
@@ -1513,7 +1461,8 @@ mod tests {
            "current_physical_size": 42,
            "attachment_status": {
                "slug":"attached",
-            }
+            },
+            "generation" : 1
        });

        assert_eq!(
@@ -1531,18 +1480,6 @@ mod tests {

    #[test]
    fn test_reject_unknown_field() {
-        let id = TenantId::generate();
-        let create_request = json!({
-            "new_tenant_id": id.to_string(),
-            "unknown_field": "unknown_value".to_string(),
-        });
-        let err = serde_json::from_value::<TenantCreateRequest>(create_request).unwrap_err();
-        assert!(
-            err.to_string().contains("unknown field `unknown_field`"),
-            "expect unknown field `unknown_field` error, got: {}",
-            err
-        );
-
        let id = TenantId::generate();
        let config_request = json!({
            "tenant_id": id.to_string(),
@@ -1554,18 +1491,6 @@ mod tests {
            "expect unknown field `unknown_field` error, got: {}",
            err
        );
-
-        let attach_request = json!({
-            "config": {
-                "unknown_field": "unknown_value".to_string(),
-            },
-        });
-        let err = serde_json::from_value::<TenantAttachRequest>(attach_request).unwrap_err();
-        assert!(
-            err.to_string().contains("unknown field `unknown_field`"),
-            "expect unknown field `unknown_field` error, got: {}",
-            err
-        );
    }

    #[test]
--- a/libs/postgres_connection/src/lib.rs
+++ b/libs/postgres_connection/src/lib.rs
@@ -144,20 +144,7 @@ impl PgConnectionConfig {
            // implement and this function is hardly a bottleneck. The function is only called around
            // establishing a new connection.
            #[allow(unstable_name_collisions)]
-            config.options(
-                &self
-                    .options
-                    .iter()
-                    .map(|s| {
-                        if s.contains(['\\', ' ']) {
-                            Cow::Owned(s.replace('\\', "\\\\").replace(' ', "\\ "))
-                        } else {
-                            Cow::Borrowed(s.as_str())
-                        }
-                    })
-                    .intersperse(Cow::Borrowed(" ")) // TODO: use impl from std once it's stabilized
-                    .collect::<String>(),
-            );
+            config.options(&encode_options(&self.options));
        }
        config
    }
@@ -178,6 +165,21 @@ impl PgConnectionConfig {
    }
 }

+#[allow(unstable_name_collisions)]
+fn encode_options(options: &[String]) -> String {
+    options
+        .iter()
+        .map(|s| {
+            if s.contains(['\\', ' ']) {
+                Cow::Owned(s.replace('\\', "\\\\").replace(' ', "\\ "))
+            } else {
+                Cow::Borrowed(s.as_str())
+            }
+        })
+        .intersperse(Cow::Borrowed(" ")) // TODO: use impl from std once it's stabilized
+        .collect::<String>()
+}
+
 impl fmt::Display for PgConnectionConfig {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
        // The password is intentionally hidden and not part of this display string.
@@ -206,7 +208,7 @@ impl fmt::Debug for PgConnectionConfig {

 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests_pg_connection_config {
-    use crate::PgConnectionConfig;
+    use crate::{encode_options, PgConnectionConfig};
    use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
    use url::Host;

@@ -255,18 +257,12 @@ mod tests_pg_connection_config {

    #[test]
    fn test_with_options() {
-        let cfg = PgConnectionConfig::new_host_port(STUB_HOST.clone(), 123).extend_options([
-            "hello",
-            "world",
-            "with space",
-            "and \\ backslashes",
+        let options = encode_options(&[
+            "hello".to_owned(),
+            "world".to_owned(),
+            "with space".to_owned(),
+            "and \\ backslashes".to_owned(),
        ]);
-        assert_eq!(cfg.host(), &*STUB_HOST);
-        assert_eq!(cfg.port(), 123);
-        assert_eq!(cfg.raw_address(), "stub.host.example:123");
-        assert_eq!(
-            cfg.to_tokio_postgres_config().get_options(),
-            Some("hello world with\\ space and\\ \\\\\\ backslashes")
-        );
+        assert_eq!(options, "hello world with\\ space and\\ \\\\\\ backslashes");
    }
 }
--- a/libs/remote_storage/Cargo.toml
+++ b/libs/remote_storage/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,8 +14,9 @@ aws-config.workspace = true
 aws-sdk-s3.workspace = true
 aws-credential-types.workspace = true
 bytes.workspace = true
-camino.workspace = true
+camino = { workspace = true, features = ["serde1"] }
 humantime.workspace = true
+humantime-serde.workspace = true
 hyper = { workspace = true, features = ["stream"] }
 futures.workspace = true
 rand.workspace = true
--- a/libs/remote_storage/src/azure_blob.rs
+++ b/libs/remote_storage/src/azure_blob.rs
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ use utils::backoff;

 use crate::metrics::{start_measuring_requests, AttemptOutcome, RequestKind};
 use crate::{
-    error::Cancelled, AzureConfig, ConcurrencyLimiter, Download, DownloadError, Listing,
+    config::AzureConfig, error::Cancelled, ConcurrencyLimiter, Download, DownloadError, Listing,
    ListingMode, RemotePath, RemoteStorage, StorageMetadata, TimeTravelError, TimeoutOrCancel,
 };

@@ -54,7 +54,10 @@ impl AzureBlobStorage {
            azure_config.container_name
        );

-        let account = env::var("AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT").expect("missing AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT");
+        // Use the storage account from the config by default, fall back to env var if not present.
+        let account = azure_config.storage_account.clone().unwrap_or_else(|| {
+            env::var("AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT").expect("missing AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT")
+        });

        // If the `AZURE_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY` env var has an access key, use that,
        // otherwise try the token based credentials.
--- a/libs/remote_storage/src/config.rs
+++ b/libs/remote_storage/src/config.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,277 @@
+use std::{fmt::Debug, num::NonZeroUsize, str::FromStr, time::Duration};
+
+use anyhow::bail;
+use aws_sdk_s3::types::StorageClass;
+use camino::Utf8PathBuf;
+
+use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
+
+use crate::{
+    DEFAULT_MAX_KEYS_PER_LIST_RESPONSE, DEFAULT_REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_CONCURRENCY_LIMIT,
+    DEFAULT_REMOTE_STORAGE_S3_CONCURRENCY_LIMIT,
+};
+
+/// External backup storage configuration, enough for creating a client for that storage.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Deserialize, Serialize)]
+pub struct RemoteStorageConfig {
+    /// The storage connection configuration.
+    #[serde(flatten)]
+    pub storage: RemoteStorageKind,
+    /// A common timeout enforced for all requests after concurrency limiter permit has been
+    /// acquired.
+    #[serde(
+        with = "humantime_serde",
+        default = "default_timeout",
+        skip_serializing_if = "is_default_timeout"
+    )]
+    pub timeout: Duration,
+}
+
+fn default_timeout() -> Duration {
+    RemoteStorageConfig::DEFAULT_TIMEOUT
+}
+
+fn is_default_timeout(d: &Duration) -> bool {
+    *d == RemoteStorageConfig::DEFAULT_TIMEOUT
+}
+
+/// A kind of a remote storage to connect to, with its connection configuration.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Deserialize, Serialize)]
+#[serde(untagged)]
+pub enum RemoteStorageKind {
+    /// Storage based on local file system.
+    /// Specify a root folder to place all stored files into.
+    LocalFs { local_path: Utf8PathBuf },
+    /// AWS S3 based storage, storing all files in the S3 bucket
+    /// specified by the config
+    AwsS3(S3Config),
+    /// Azure Blob based storage, storing all files in the container
+    /// specified by the config
+    AzureContainer(AzureConfig),
+}
+
+/// AWS S3 bucket coordinates and access credentials to manage the bucket contents (read and write).
+#[derive(Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Deserialize, Serialize)]
+pub struct S3Config {
+    /// Name of the bucket to connect to.
+    pub bucket_name: String,
+    /// The region where the bucket is located at.
+    pub bucket_region: String,
+    /// A "subfolder" in the bucket, to use the same bucket separately by multiple remote storage users at once.
+    pub prefix_in_bucket: Option<String>,
+    /// A base URL to send S3 requests to.
+    /// By default, the endpoint is derived from a region name, assuming it's
+    /// an AWS S3 region name, erroring on wrong region name.
+    /// Endpoint provides a way to support other S3 flavors and their regions.
+    ///
+    /// Example: `http://127.0.0.1:5000`
+    pub endpoint: Option<String>,
+    /// AWS S3 has various limits on its API calls, we need not to exceed those.
+    /// See [`DEFAULT_REMOTE_STORAGE_S3_CONCURRENCY_LIMIT`] for more details.
+    #[serde(default = "default_remote_storage_s3_concurrency_limit")]
+    pub concurrency_limit: NonZeroUsize,
+    #[serde(default = "default_max_keys_per_list_response")]
+    pub max_keys_per_list_response: Option<i32>,
+    #[serde(
+        deserialize_with = "deserialize_storage_class",
+        serialize_with = "serialize_storage_class",
+        default
+    )]
+    pub upload_storage_class: Option<StorageClass>,
+}
+
+fn default_remote_storage_s3_concurrency_limit() -> NonZeroUsize {
+    DEFAULT_REMOTE_STORAGE_S3_CONCURRENCY_LIMIT
+        .try_into()
+        .unwrap()
+}
+
+fn default_max_keys_per_list_response() -> Option<i32> {
+    DEFAULT_MAX_KEYS_PER_LIST_RESPONSE
+}
+
+impl Debug for S3Config {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
+        f.debug_struct("S3Config")
+            .field("bucket_name", &self.bucket_name)
+            .field("bucket_region", &self.bucket_region)
+            .field("prefix_in_bucket", &self.prefix_in_bucket)
+            .field("concurrency_limit", &self.concurrency_limit)
+            .field(
+                "max_keys_per_list_response",
+                &self.max_keys_per_list_response,
+            )
+            .finish()
+    }
+}
+
+/// Azure  bucket coordinates and access credentials to manage the bucket contents (read and write).
+#[derive(Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+pub struct AzureConfig {
+    /// Name of the container to connect to.
+    pub container_name: String,
+    /// Name of the storage account the container is inside of
+    pub storage_account: Option<String>,
+    /// The region where the bucket is located at.
+    pub container_region: String,
+    /// A "subfolder" in the container, to use the same container separately by multiple remote storage users at once.
+    pub prefix_in_container: Option<String>,
+    /// Azure has various limits on its API calls, we need not to exceed those.
+    /// See [`DEFAULT_REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_CONCURRENCY_LIMIT`] for more details.
+    #[serde(default = "default_remote_storage_azure_concurrency_limit")]
+    pub concurrency_limit: NonZeroUsize,
+    #[serde(default = "default_max_keys_per_list_response")]
+    pub max_keys_per_list_response: Option<i32>,
+}
+
+fn default_remote_storage_azure_concurrency_limit() -> NonZeroUsize {
+    NonZeroUsize::new(DEFAULT_REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_CONCURRENCY_LIMIT).unwrap()
+}
+
+impl Debug for AzureConfig {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
+        f.debug_struct("AzureConfig")
+            .field("bucket_name", &self.container_name)
+            .field("storage_account", &self.storage_account)
+            .field("bucket_region", &self.container_region)
+            .field("prefix_in_container", &self.prefix_in_container)
+            .field("concurrency_limit", &self.concurrency_limit)
+            .field(
+                "max_keys_per_list_response",
+                &self.max_keys_per_list_response,
+            )
+            .finish()
+    }
+}
+
+fn deserialize_storage_class<'de, D: serde::Deserializer<'de>>(
+    deserializer: D,
+) -> Result<Option<StorageClass>, D::Error> {
+    Option::<String>::deserialize(deserializer).and_then(|s| {
+        if let Some(s) = s {
+            use serde::de::Error;
+            let storage_class = StorageClass::from_str(&s).expect("infallible");
+            #[allow(deprecated)]
+            if matches!(storage_class, StorageClass::Unknown(_)) {
+                return Err(D::Error::custom(format!(
+                    "Specified storage class unknown to SDK: '{s}'. Allowed values: {:?}",
+                    StorageClass::values()
+                )));
+            }
+            Ok(Some(storage_class))
+        } else {
+            Ok(None)
+        }
+    })
+}
+
+fn serialize_storage_class<S: serde::Serializer>(
+    val: &Option<StorageClass>,
+    serializer: S,
+) -> Result<S::Ok, S::Error> {
+    let val = val.as_ref().map(StorageClass::as_str);
+    Option::<&str>::serialize(&val, serializer)
+}
+
+impl RemoteStorageConfig {
+    pub const DEFAULT_TIMEOUT: Duration = std::time::Duration::from_secs(120);
+
+    pub fn from_toml(toml: &toml_edit::Item) -> anyhow::Result<Option<RemoteStorageConfig>> {
+        let document: toml_edit::Document = match toml {
+            toml_edit::Item::Table(toml) => toml.clone().into(),
+            toml_edit::Item::Value(toml_edit::Value::InlineTable(toml)) => {
+                toml.clone().into_table().into()
+            }
+            _ => bail!("toml not a table or inline table"),
+        };
+
+        if document.is_empty() {
+            return Ok(None);
+        }
+
+        Ok(Some(toml_edit::de::from_document(document)?))
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    fn parse(input: &str) -> anyhow::Result<Option<RemoteStorageConfig>> {
+        let toml = input.parse::<toml_edit::Document>().unwrap();
+        RemoteStorageConfig::from_toml(toml.as_item())
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn parse_localfs_config_with_timeout() {
+        let input = "local_path = '.'
+timeout = '5s'";
+
+        let config = parse(input).unwrap().expect("it exists");
+
+        assert_eq!(
+            config,
+            RemoteStorageConfig {
+                storage: RemoteStorageKind::LocalFs {
+                    local_path: Utf8PathBuf::from(".")
+                },
+                timeout: Duration::from_secs(5)
+            }
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_s3_parsing() {
+        let toml = "\
+    bucket_name = 'foo-bar'
+    bucket_region = 'eu-central-1'
+    upload_storage_class = 'INTELLIGENT_TIERING'
+    timeout = '7s'
+    ";
+
+        let config = parse(toml).unwrap().expect("it exists");
+
+        assert_eq!(
+            config,
+            RemoteStorageConfig {
+                storage: RemoteStorageKind::AwsS3(S3Config {
+                    bucket_name: "foo-bar".into(),
+                    bucket_region: "eu-central-1".into(),
+                    prefix_in_bucket: None,
+                    endpoint: None,
+                    concurrency_limit: default_remote_storage_s3_concurrency_limit(),
+                    max_keys_per_list_response: DEFAULT_MAX_KEYS_PER_LIST_RESPONSE,
+                    upload_storage_class: Some(StorageClass::IntelligentTiering),
+                }),
+                timeout: Duration::from_secs(7)
+            }
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_azure_parsing() {
+        let toml = "\
+    container_name = 'foo-bar'
+    container_region = 'westeurope'
+    upload_storage_class = 'INTELLIGENT_TIERING'
+    timeout = '7s'
+    ";
+
+        let config = parse(toml).unwrap().expect("it exists");
+
+        assert_eq!(
+            config,
+            RemoteStorageConfig {
+                storage: RemoteStorageKind::AzureContainer(AzureConfig {
+                    container_name: "foo-bar".into(),
+                    storage_account: None,
+                    container_region: "westeurope".into(),
+                    prefix_in_container: None,
+                    concurrency_limit: default_remote_storage_azure_concurrency_limit(),
+                    max_keys_per_list_response: DEFAULT_MAX_KEYS_PER_LIST_RESPONSE,
+                }),
+                timeout: Duration::from_secs(7)
+            }
+        );
+    }
+}
--- a/libs/remote_storage/src/lib.rs
+++ b/libs/remote_storage/src/lib.rs
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #![deny(clippy::undocumented_unsafe_blocks)]

 mod azure_blob;
+mod config;
 mod error;
 mod local_fs;
 mod metrics;
@@ -18,17 +19,10 @@ mod simulate_failures;
 mod support;

 use std::{
-    collections::HashMap,
-    fmt::Debug,
-    num::{NonZeroU32, NonZeroUsize},
-    pin::Pin,
-    str::FromStr,
-    sync::Arc,
-    time::{Duration, SystemTime},
+    collections::HashMap, fmt::Debug, num::NonZeroU32, pin::Pin, sync::Arc, time::SystemTime,
 };

-use anyhow::{bail, Context};
-use aws_sdk_s3::types::StorageClass;
+use anyhow::Context;
 use camino::{Utf8Path, Utf8PathBuf};

 use bytes::Bytes;
@@ -36,7 +30,6 @@ use futures::stream::Stream;
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use tokio::sync::Semaphore;
 use tokio_util::sync::CancellationToken;
-use toml_edit::Item;
 use tracing::info;

 pub use self::{
@@ -45,6 +38,8 @@ pub use self::{
 };
 use s3_bucket::RequestKind;

+pub use crate::config::{AzureConfig, RemoteStorageConfig, RemoteStorageKind, S3Config};
+
 /// Azure SDK's ETag type is a simple String wrapper: we use this internally instead of repeating it here.
 pub use azure_core::Etag;

@@ -451,7 +446,7 @@ impl GenericRemoteStorage {
    pub fn from_config(storage_config: &RemoteStorageConfig) -> anyhow::Result<Self> {
        let timeout = storage_config.timeout;
        Ok(match &storage_config.storage {
-            RemoteStorageKind::LocalFs(path) => {
+            RemoteStorageKind::LocalFs { local_path: path } => {
                info!("Using fs root '{path}' as a remote storage");
                Self::LocalFs(LocalFs::new(path.clone(), timeout)?)
            }
@@ -466,7 +461,11 @@ impl GenericRemoteStorage {
                Self::AwsS3(Arc::new(S3Bucket::new(s3_config, timeout)?))
            }
            RemoteStorageKind::AzureContainer(azure_config) => {
-                info!("Using azure container '{}' in region '{}' as a remote storage, prefix in container: '{:?}'",
+                let storage_account = azure_config
+                    .storage_account
+                    .as_deref()
+                    .unwrap_or("<AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT>");
+                info!("Using azure container '{}' in account '{storage_account}' in region '{}' as a remote storage, prefix in container: '{:?}'",
                      azure_config.container_name, azure_config.container_region, azure_config.prefix_in_container);
                Self::AzureBlob(Arc::new(AzureBlobStorage::new(azure_config, timeout)?))
            }
@@ -522,253 +521,6 @@ impl<const N: usize> From<[(&str, &str); N]> for StorageMetadata {
    }
 }

-/// External backup storage configuration, enough for creating a client for that storage.
-#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
-pub struct RemoteStorageConfig {
-    /// The storage connection configuration.
-    pub storage: RemoteStorageKind,
-    /// A common timeout enforced for all requests after concurrency limiter permit has been
-    /// acquired.
-    pub timeout: Duration,
-}
-
-/// A kind of a remote storage to connect to, with its connection configuration.
-#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
-pub enum RemoteStorageKind {
-    /// Storage based on local file system.
-    /// Specify a root folder to place all stored files into.
-    LocalFs(Utf8PathBuf),
-    /// AWS S3 based storage, storing all files in the S3 bucket
-    /// specified by the config
-    AwsS3(S3Config),
-    /// Azure Blob based storage, storing all files in the container
-    /// specified by the config
-    AzureContainer(AzureConfig),
-}
-
-/// AWS S3 bucket coordinates and access credentials to manage the bucket contents (read and write).
-#[derive(Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
-pub struct S3Config {
-    /// Name of the bucket to connect to.
-    pub bucket_name: String,
-    /// The region where the bucket is located at.
-    pub bucket_region: String,
-    /// A "subfolder" in the bucket, to use the same bucket separately by multiple remote storage users at once.
-    pub prefix_in_bucket: Option<String>,
-    /// A base URL to send S3 requests to.
-    /// By default, the endpoint is derived from a region name, assuming it's
-    /// an AWS S3 region name, erroring on wrong region name.
-    /// Endpoint provides a way to support other S3 flavors and their regions.
-    ///
-    /// Example: `http://127.0.0.1:5000`
-    pub endpoint: Option<String>,
-    /// AWS S3 has various limits on its API calls, we need not to exceed those.
-    /// See [`DEFAULT_REMOTE_STORAGE_S3_CONCURRENCY_LIMIT`] for more details.
-    pub concurrency_limit: NonZeroUsize,
-    pub max_keys_per_list_response: Option<i32>,
-    pub upload_storage_class: Option<StorageClass>,
-}
-
-impl Debug for S3Config {
-    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
-        f.debug_struct("S3Config")
-            .field("bucket_name", &self.bucket_name)
-            .field("bucket_region", &self.bucket_region)
-            .field("prefix_in_bucket", &self.prefix_in_bucket)
-            .field("concurrency_limit", &self.concurrency_limit)
-            .field(
-                "max_keys_per_list_response",
-                &self.max_keys_per_list_response,
-            )
-            .finish()
-    }
-}
-
-/// Azure  bucket coordinates and access credentials to manage the bucket contents (read and write).
-#[derive(Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
-pub struct AzureConfig {
-    /// Name of the container to connect to.
-    pub container_name: String,
-    /// The region where the bucket is located at.
-    pub container_region: String,
-    /// A "subfolder" in the container, to use the same container separately by multiple remote storage users at once.
-    pub prefix_in_container: Option<String>,
-    /// Azure has various limits on its API calls, we need not to exceed those.
-    /// See [`DEFAULT_REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_CONCURRENCY_LIMIT`] for more details.
-    pub concurrency_limit: NonZeroUsize,
-    pub max_keys_per_list_response: Option<i32>,
-}
-
-impl Debug for AzureConfig {
-    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
-        f.debug_struct("AzureConfig")
-            .field("bucket_name", &self.container_name)
-            .field("bucket_region", &self.container_region)
-            .field("prefix_in_bucket", &self.prefix_in_container)
-            .field("concurrency_limit", &self.concurrency_limit)
-            .field(
-                "max_keys_per_list_response",
-                &self.max_keys_per_list_response,
-            )
-            .finish()
-    }
-}
-
-impl RemoteStorageConfig {
-    pub const DEFAULT_TIMEOUT: Duration = std::time::Duration::from_secs(120);
-
-    pub fn from_toml(toml: &toml_edit::Item) -> anyhow::Result<Option<RemoteStorageConfig>> {
-        let local_path = toml.get("local_path");
-        let bucket_name = toml.get("bucket_name");
-        let bucket_region = toml.get("bucket_region");
-        let container_name = toml.get("container_name");
-        let container_region = toml.get("container_region");
-
-        let use_azure = container_name.is_some() && container_region.is_some();
-
-        let default_concurrency_limit = if use_azure {
-            DEFAULT_REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_CONCURRENCY_LIMIT
-        } else {
-            DEFAULT_REMOTE_STORAGE_S3_CONCURRENCY_LIMIT
-        };
-        let concurrency_limit = NonZeroUsize::new(
-            parse_optional_integer("concurrency_limit", toml)?.unwrap_or(default_concurrency_limit),
-        )
-        .context("Failed to parse 'concurrency_limit' as a positive integer")?;
-
-        let max_keys_per_list_response =
-            parse_optional_integer::<i32, _>("max_keys_per_list_response", toml)
-                .context("Failed to parse 'max_keys_per_list_response' as a positive integer")?
-                .or(DEFAULT_MAX_KEYS_PER_LIST_RESPONSE);
-
-        let endpoint = toml
-            .get("endpoint")
-            .map(|endpoint| parse_toml_string("endpoint", endpoint))
-            .transpose()?;
-
-        let timeout = toml
-            .get("timeout")
-            .map(|timeout| {
-                timeout
-                    .as_str()
-                    .ok_or_else(|| anyhow::Error::msg("timeout was not a string"))
-            })
-            .transpose()
-            .and_then(|timeout| {
-                timeout
-                    .map(humantime::parse_duration)
-                    .transpose()
-                    .map_err(anyhow::Error::new)
-            })
-            .context("parse timeout")?
-            .unwrap_or(Self::DEFAULT_TIMEOUT);
-
-        if timeout < Duration::from_secs(1) {
-            bail!("timeout was specified as {timeout:?} which is too low");
-        }
-
-        let storage = match (
-            local_path,
-            bucket_name,
-            bucket_region,
-            container_name,
-            container_region,
-        ) {
-            // no 'local_path' nor 'bucket_name' options are provided, consider this remote storage disabled
-            (None, None, None, None, None) => return Ok(None),
-            (_, Some(_), None, ..) => {
-                bail!("'bucket_region' option is mandatory if 'bucket_name' is given ")
-            }
-            (_, None, Some(_), ..) => {
-                bail!("'bucket_name' option is mandatory if 'bucket_region' is given ")
-            }
-            (None, Some(bucket_name), Some(bucket_region), ..) => {
-                RemoteStorageKind::AwsS3(S3Config {
-                    bucket_name: parse_toml_string("bucket_name", bucket_name)?,
-                    bucket_region: parse_toml_string("bucket_region", bucket_region)?,
-                    prefix_in_bucket: toml
-                        .get("prefix_in_bucket")
-                        .map(|prefix_in_bucket| {
-                            parse_toml_string("prefix_in_bucket", prefix_in_bucket)
-                        })
-                        .transpose()?,
-                    endpoint,
-                    concurrency_limit,
-                    max_keys_per_list_response,
-                    upload_storage_class: toml
-                        .get("upload_storage_class")
-                        .map(|prefix_in_bucket| -> anyhow::Result<_> {
-                            let s = parse_toml_string("upload_storage_class", prefix_in_bucket)?;
-                            let storage_class = StorageClass::from_str(&s).expect("infallible");
-                            #[allow(deprecated)]
-                            if matches!(storage_class, StorageClass::Unknown(_)) {
-                                bail!("Specified storage class unknown to SDK: '{s}'. Allowed values: {:?}", StorageClass::values());
-                            }
-                            Ok(storage_class)
-                        })
-                        .transpose()?,
-                })
-            }
-            (_, _, _, Some(_), None) => {
-                bail!("'container_name' option is mandatory if 'container_region' is given ")
-            }
-            (_, _, _, None, Some(_)) => {
-                bail!("'container_name' option is mandatory if 'container_region' is given ")
-            }
-            (None, None, None, Some(container_name), Some(container_region)) => {
-                RemoteStorageKind::AzureContainer(AzureConfig {
-                    container_name: parse_toml_string("container_name", container_name)?,
-                    container_region: parse_toml_string("container_region", container_region)?,
-                    prefix_in_container: toml
-                        .get("prefix_in_container")
-                        .map(|prefix_in_container| {
-                            parse_toml_string("prefix_in_container", prefix_in_container)
-                        })
-                        .transpose()?,
-                    concurrency_limit,
-                    max_keys_per_list_response,
-                })
-            }
-            (Some(local_path), None, None, None, None) => RemoteStorageKind::LocalFs(
-                Utf8PathBuf::from(parse_toml_string("local_path", local_path)?),
-            ),
-            (Some(_), Some(_), ..) => {
-                bail!("'local_path' and 'bucket_name' are mutually exclusive")
-            }
-            (Some(_), _, _, Some(_), Some(_)) => {
-                bail!("local_path and 'container_name' are mutually exclusive")
-            }
-        };
-
-        Ok(Some(RemoteStorageConfig { storage, timeout }))
-    }
-}
-
-// Helper functions to parse a toml Item
-fn parse_optional_integer<I, E>(name: &str, item: &toml_edit::Item) -> anyhow::Result<Option<I>>
-where
-    I: TryFrom<i64, Error = E>,
-    E: std::error::Error + Send + Sync + 'static,
-{
-    let toml_integer = match item.get(name) {
-        Some(item) => item
-            .as_integer()
-            .with_context(|| format!("configure option {name} is not an integer"))?,
-        None => return Ok(None),
-    };
-
-    I::try_from(toml_integer)
-        .map(Some)
-        .with_context(|| format!("configure option {name} is too large"))
-}
-
-fn parse_toml_string(name: &str, item: &Item) -> anyhow::Result<String> {
-    let s = item
-        .as_str()
-        .with_context(|| format!("configure option {name} is not a string"))?;
-    Ok(s.to_string())
-}
-
 struct ConcurrencyLimiter {
    // Every request to S3 can be throttled or cancelled, if a certain number of requests per second is exceeded.
    // Same goes to IAM, which is queried before every S3 request, if enabled. IAM has even lower RPS threshold.
@@ -836,24 +588,4 @@ mod tests {
        let err = RemotePath::new(Utf8Path::new("/")).expect_err("Should fail on absolute paths");
        assert_eq!(err.to_string(), "Path \"/\" is not relative");
    }
-
-    #[test]
-    fn parse_localfs_config_with_timeout() {
-        let input = "local_path = '.'
-timeout = '5s'";
-
-        let toml = input.parse::<toml_edit::Document>().unwrap();
-
-        let config = RemoteStorageConfig::from_toml(toml.as_item())
-            .unwrap()
-            .expect("it exists");
-
-        assert_eq!(
-            config,
-            RemoteStorageConfig {
-                storage: RemoteStorageKind::LocalFs(Utf8PathBuf::from(".")),
-                timeout: Duration::from_secs(5)
-            }
-        );
-    }
 }
--- a/libs/remote_storage/src/s3_bucket.rs
+++ b/libs/remote_storage/src/s3_bucket.rs
@@ -46,12 +46,12 @@ use utils::backoff;

 use super::StorageMetadata;
 use crate::{
+    config::S3Config,
    error::Cancelled,
    metrics::{start_counting_cancelled_wait, start_measuring_requests},
    support::PermitCarrying,
    ConcurrencyLimiter, Download, DownloadError, Listing, ListingMode, RemotePath, RemoteStorage,
-    S3Config, TimeTravelError, TimeoutOrCancel, MAX_KEYS_PER_DELETE,
-    REMOTE_STORAGE_PREFIX_SEPARATOR,
+    TimeTravelError, TimeoutOrCancel, MAX_KEYS_PER_DELETE, REMOTE_STORAGE_PREFIX_SEPARATOR,
 };

 use crate::metrics::AttemptOutcome;
--- a/libs/remote_storage/tests/test_real_azure.rs
+++ b/libs/remote_storage/tests/test_real_azure.rs
@@ -212,6 +212,7 @@ fn create_azure_client(
    let remote_storage_config = RemoteStorageConfig {
        storage: RemoteStorageKind::AzureContainer(AzureConfig {
            container_name: remote_storage_azure_container,
+            storage_account: None,
            container_region: remote_storage_azure_region,
            prefix_in_container: Some(format!("test_{millis}_{random:08x}/")),
            concurrency_limit: NonZeroUsize::new(100).unwrap(),
--- a/libs/tracing-utils/Cargo.toml
+++ b/libs/tracing-utils/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ license.workspace = true
 [dependencies]
 hyper.workspace = true
 opentelemetry = { workspace = true, features=["rt-tokio"] }
-opentelemetry-otlp = { workspace = true, default_features=false, features = ["http-proto", "trace", "http", "reqwest-client"] }
+opentelemetry-otlp = { workspace = true, default-features=false, features = ["http-proto", "trace", "http", "reqwest-client"] }
 opentelemetry-semantic-conventions.workspace = true
 reqwest = { workspace = true, default-features = false, features = ["rustls-tls"] }
 tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["rt", "rt-multi-thread"] }
--- a/libs/utils/src/generation.rs
+++ b/libs/utils/src/generation.rs
@@ -9,20 +9,11 @@ use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 /// numbers are used.
 #[derive(Copy, Clone, Eq, PartialEq, PartialOrd, Ord, Hash)]
 pub enum Generation {
-    // Generations with this magic value will not add a suffix to S3 keys, and will not
-    // be included in persisted index_part.json.  This value is only to be used
-    // during migration from pre-generation metadata to generation-aware metadata,
-    // and should eventually go away.
-    //
-    // A special Generation is used rather than always wrapping Generation in an Option,
-    // so that code handling generations doesn't have to be aware of the legacy
-    // case everywhere it touches a generation.
+    // The None Generation is used in the metadata of layers written before generations were
+    // introduced.  A running Tenant always has a valid generation, but the layer metadata may
+    // include None generations.
    None,
-    // Generations with this magic value may never be used to construct S3 keys:
-    // we will panic if someone tries to.  This is for Tenants in the "Broken" state,
-    // so that we can satisfy their constructor with a Generation without risking
-    // a code bug using it in an S3 write (broken tenants should never write)
-    Broken,
+
    Valid(u32),
 }

@@ -42,11 +33,6 @@ impl Generation {
        Self::None
    }

-    // Create a new generation that will panic if you try to use get_suffix
-    pub fn broken() -> Self {
-        Self::Broken
-    }
-
    pub const fn new(v: u32) -> Self {
        Self::Valid(v)
    }
@@ -60,9 +46,6 @@ impl Generation {
        match self {
            Self::Valid(v) => GenerationFileSuffix(Some(*v)),
            Self::None => GenerationFileSuffix(None),
-            Self::Broken => {
-                panic!("Tried to use a broken generation");
-            }
        }
    }

@@ -86,7 +69,6 @@ impl Generation {
                }
            }
            Self::None => Self::None,
-            Self::Broken => panic!("Attempted to use a broken generation"),
        }
    }

@@ -95,7 +77,6 @@ impl Generation {
        match self {
            Self::Valid(n) => Self::Valid(*n + 1),
            Self::None => Self::Valid(1),
-            Self::Broken => panic!("Attempted to use a broken generation"),
        }
    }

@@ -128,7 +109,7 @@ impl Serialize for Generation {
        if let Self::Valid(v) = self {
            v.serialize(serializer)
        } else {
-            // We should never be asked to serialize a None or Broken.  Structures
+            // We should never be asked to serialize a None. Structures
            // that include an optional generation should convert None to an
            // Option<Generation>::None
            Err(serde::ser::Error::custom(
@@ -159,9 +140,6 @@ impl Debug for Generation {
            Self::None => {
                write!(f, "<none>")
            }
-            Self::Broken => {
-                write!(f, "<broken>")
-            }
        }
    }
 }
--- a/libs/utils/src/http/json.rs
+++ b/libs/utils/src/http/json.rs
@@ -8,22 +8,15 @@ use super::error::ApiError;
 pub async fn json_request<T: for<'de> Deserialize<'de>>(
    request: &mut Request<Body>,
 ) -> Result<T, ApiError> {
-    json_request_or_empty_body(request)
-        .await?
-        .context("missing request body")
-        .map_err(ApiError::BadRequest)
-}
-
-/// Will be removed as part of <https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/4282>
-pub async fn json_request_or_empty_body<T: for<'de> Deserialize<'de>>(
-    request: &mut Request<Body>,
-) -> Result<Option<T>, ApiError> {
    let body = hyper::body::aggregate(request.body_mut())
        .await
        .context("Failed to read request body")
        .map_err(ApiError::BadRequest)?;
+
    if body.remaining() == 0 {
-        return Ok(None);
+        return Err(ApiError::BadRequest(anyhow::anyhow!(
+            "missing request body"
+        )));
    }

    let mut deser = serde_json::de::Deserializer::from_reader(body.reader());
@@ -31,7 +24,6 @@ pub async fn json_request_or_empty_body<T: for<'de> Deserialize<'de>>(
    serde_path_to_error::deserialize(&mut deser)
        // intentionally stringify because the debug version is not helpful in python logs
        .map_err(|e| anyhow::anyhow!("Failed to parse json request: {e}"))
-        .map(Some)
        .map_err(ApiError::BadRequest)
 }

--- a/libs/vm_monitor/src/cgroup.rs
+++ b/libs/vm_monitor/src/cgroup.rs
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ pub struct Config {
    ///
    /// For simplicity, this value must be greater than or equal to `memory_history_len`.
    memory_history_log_interval: usize,
+    /// The max number of iterations to skip before logging the next iteration
+    memory_history_log_noskip_interval: Duration,
 }

 impl Default for Config {
@@ -33,6 +35,7 @@ impl Default for Config {
            memory_poll_interval: Duration::from_millis(100),
            memory_history_len: 5, // use 500ms of history for decision-making
            memory_history_log_interval: 20, // but only log every ~2s (otherwise it's spammy)
+            memory_history_log_noskip_interval: Duration::from_secs(15), // but only if it's changed, or 60 seconds have passed
        }
    }
 }
@@ -85,7 +88,12 @@ impl CgroupWatcher {

        // buffer for samples that will be logged. once full, it remains so.
        let history_log_len = self.config.memory_history_log_interval;
+        let max_skip = self.config.memory_history_log_noskip_interval;
        let mut history_log_buf = vec![MemoryStatus::zeroed(); history_log_len];
+        let mut last_logged_memusage = MemoryStatus::zeroed();
+
+        // Ensure that we're tracking a value that's definitely in the past, as Instant::now is only guaranteed to be non-decreasing on Rust's T1-supported systems.
+        let mut can_skip_logs_until = Instant::now() - max_skip;

        for t in 0_u64.. {
            ticker.tick().await;
@@ -115,12 +123,24 @@ impl CgroupWatcher {
            // equal to the logging interval, we can just log the entire buffer every time we set
            // the last entry, which also means that for this log line, we can ignore that it's a
            // ring buffer (because all the entries are in order of increasing time).
-            if i == history_log_len - 1 {
+            //
+            // We skip logging the data if data hasn't meaningfully changed in a while, unless
+            // we've already ignored previous iterations for the last max_skip period.
+            if i == history_log_len - 1
+                && (now > can_skip_logs_until
+                    || !history_log_buf
+                        .iter()
+                        .all(|usage| last_logged_memusage.status_is_close_or_similar(usage)))
+            {
                info!(
                    history = ?MemoryStatus::debug_slice(&history_log_buf),
                    summary = ?summary,
                    "Recent cgroup memory statistics history"
                );
+
+                can_skip_logs_until = now + max_skip;
+
+                last_logged_memusage = *history_log_buf.last().unwrap();
            }

            updates
@@ -232,6 +252,24 @@ impl MemoryStatus {

        DS(slice)
    }
+
+    /// Check if the other memory status is a close or similar result.
+    /// Returns true if the larger value is not larger than the smaller value
+    /// by 1/8 of the smaller value, and within 128MiB.
+    /// See tests::check_similarity_behaviour for examples of behaviour
+    fn status_is_close_or_similar(&self, other: &MemoryStatus) -> bool {
+        let margin;
+        let diff;
+        if self.non_reclaimable >= other.non_reclaimable {
+            margin = other.non_reclaimable / 8;
+            diff = self.non_reclaimable - other.non_reclaimable;
+        } else {
+            margin = self.non_reclaimable / 8;
+            diff = other.non_reclaimable - self.non_reclaimable;
+        }
+
+        diff < margin && diff < 128 * 1024 * 1024
+    }
 }

 #[cfg(test)]
@@ -261,4 +299,65 @@ mod tests {
        assert_eq!(values(2, 4), [9, 0, 1, 2]);
        assert_eq!(values(2, 10), [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, 1, 2]);
    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn check_similarity_behaviour() {
+        // This all accesses private methods, so we can't actually run this
+        // as doctests, because doctests run as an external crate.
+        let mut small = super::MemoryStatus {
+            non_reclaimable: 1024,
+        };
+        let mut large = super::MemoryStatus {
+            non_reclaimable: 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024,
+        };
+
+        // objects are self-similar, no matter the size
+        assert!(small.status_is_close_or_similar(&small));
+        assert!(large.status_is_close_or_similar(&large));
+
+        // inequality is symmetric
+        assert!(!small.status_is_close_or_similar(&large));
+        assert!(!large.status_is_close_or_similar(&small));
+
+        small.non_reclaimable = 64;
+        large.non_reclaimable = (small.non_reclaimable / 8) * 9;
+
+        // objects are self-similar, no matter the size
+        assert!(small.status_is_close_or_similar(&small));
+        assert!(large.status_is_close_or_similar(&large));
+
+        // values are similar if the larger value is larger by less than
+        // 12.5%, i.e. 1/8 of the smaller value.
+        // In the example above, large is exactly 12.5% larger, so this doesn't
+        // match.
+        assert!(!small.status_is_close_or_similar(&large));
+        assert!(!large.status_is_close_or_similar(&small));
+
+        large.non_reclaimable -= 1;
+        assert!(large.status_is_close_or_similar(&large));
+
+        assert!(small.status_is_close_or_similar(&large));
+        assert!(large.status_is_close_or_similar(&small));
+
+        // The 1/8 rule only applies up to 128MiB of difference
+        small.non_reclaimable = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024;
+        large.non_reclaimable = small.non_reclaimable / 8 * 9;
+        assert!(small.status_is_close_or_similar(&small));
+        assert!(large.status_is_close_or_similar(&large));
+
+        assert!(!small.status_is_close_or_similar(&large));
+        assert!(!large.status_is_close_or_similar(&small));
+        // the large value is put just above the threshold
+        large.non_reclaimable = small.non_reclaimable + 128 * 1024 * 1024;
+        assert!(large.status_is_close_or_similar(&large));
+
+        assert!(!small.status_is_close_or_similar(&large));
+        assert!(!large.status_is_close_or_similar(&small));
+        // now below
+        large.non_reclaimable -= 1;
+        assert!(large.status_is_close_or_similar(&large));
+
+        assert!(small.status_is_close_or_similar(&large));
+        assert!(large.status_is_close_or_similar(&small));
+    }
 }
--- a/libs/vm_monitor/src/dispatcher.rs
+++ b/libs/vm_monitor/src/dispatcher.rs
@@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ use futures::{
    stream::{SplitSink, SplitStream},
    SinkExt, StreamExt,
 };
-use tracing::info;
+use tracing::{debug, info};

 use crate::protocol::{
-    OutboundMsg, ProtocolRange, ProtocolResponse, ProtocolVersion, PROTOCOL_MAX_VERSION,
-    PROTOCOL_MIN_VERSION,
+    OutboundMsg, OutboundMsgKind, ProtocolRange, ProtocolResponse, ProtocolVersion,
+    PROTOCOL_MAX_VERSION, PROTOCOL_MIN_VERSION,
 };

 /// The central handler for all communications in the monitor.
@@ -118,7 +118,12 @@ impl Dispatcher {
    /// serialize the wrong thing and send it, since `self.sink.send` will take
    /// any string.
    pub async fn send(&mut self, message: OutboundMsg) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
-        info!(?message, "sending message");
+        if matches!(&message.inner, OutboundMsgKind::HealthCheck { .. }) {
+            debug!(?message, "sending message");
+        } else {
+            info!(?message, "sending message");
+        }
+
        let json = serde_json::to_string(&message).context("failed to serialize message")?;
        self.sink
            .send(Message::Text(json))
--- a/libs/vm_monitor/src/runner.rs
+++ b/libs/vm_monitor/src/runner.rs
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ use axum::extract::ws::{Message, WebSocket};
 use futures::StreamExt;
 use tokio::sync::{broadcast, watch};
 use tokio_util::sync::CancellationToken;
-use tracing::{error, info, warn};
+use tracing::{debug, error, info, warn};

 use crate::cgroup::{self, CgroupWatcher};
 use crate::dispatcher::Dispatcher;
@@ -474,26 +474,29 @@ impl Runner {
                // there is a message from the agent
                msg = self.dispatcher.source.next() => {
                    if let Some(msg) = msg {
-                        // Don't use 'message' as a key as the string also uses
-                        // that for its key
-                        info!(?msg, "received message");
-                        match msg {
+                        match &msg {
                            Ok(msg) => {
                                let message: InboundMsg = match msg {
                                    Message::Text(text) => {
-                                        serde_json::from_str(&text).context("failed to deserialize text message")?
+                                        serde_json::from_str(text).context("failed to deserialize text message")?
                                    }
                                    other => {
                                        warn!(
                                            // Don't use 'message' as a key as the
                                            // string also uses that for its key
                                            msg = ?other,
-                                            "agent should only send text messages but received different type"
+                                            "problem processing incoming message: agent should only send text messages but received different type"
                                        );
                                        continue
                                    },
                                };

+                                if matches!(&message.inner, InboundMsgKind::HealthCheck { .. }) {
+                                    debug!(?msg, "received message");
+                                } else {
+                                    info!(?msg, "received message");
+                                }
+
                                let out = match self.process_message(message.clone()).await {
                                    Ok(Some(out)) => out,
                                    Ok(None) => continue,
@@ -517,7 +520,11 @@ impl Runner {
                                    .await
                                    .context("failed to send message")?;
                            }
-                            Err(e) => warn!("{e}"),
+                            Err(e) => warn!(
+                                error = format!("{e}"),
+                                msg = ?msg,
+                                "received error message"
+                            ),
                        }
                    } else {
                        anyhow::bail!("dispatcher connection closed")
--- a/libs/walproposer/src/walproposer.rs
+++ b/libs/walproposer/src/walproposer.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+#![allow(clippy::todo)]
+
 use std::ffi::CString;

 use crate::{
--- a/pageserver/benches/bench_walredo.rs
+++ b/pageserver/benches/bench_walredo.rs
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
 //! medium/128        time:   [8.8311 ms 8.9849 ms 9.1263 ms]
 //! ```

+use anyhow::Context;
 use bytes::{Buf, Bytes};
 use criterion::{BenchmarkId, Criterion};
 use pageserver::{config::PageServerConf, walrecord::NeonWalRecord, walredo::PostgresRedoManager};
@@ -188,6 +189,7 @@ impl Request {
        manager
            .request_redo(*key, *lsn, base_img.clone(), records.clone(), *pg_version)
            .await
+            .context("request_redo")
    }

    fn pg_record(will_init: bool, bytes: &'static [u8]) -> NeonWalRecord {
--- a/pageserver/client/src/mgmt_api.rs
+++ b/pageserver/client/src/mgmt_api.rs
@@ -205,15 +205,6 @@ impl Client {
        Ok(())
    }

-    pub async fn tenant_create(&self, req: &TenantCreateRequest) -> Result<TenantId> {
-        let uri = format!("{}/v1/tenant", self.mgmt_api_endpoint);
-        self.request(Method::POST, &uri, req)
-            .await?
-            .json()
-            .await
-            .map_err(Error::ReceiveBody)
-    }
-
    /// The tenant deletion API can return 202 if deletion is incomplete, or
    /// 404 if it is complete.  Callers are responsible for checking the status
    /// code and retrying.  Error codes other than 404 will return Err().
--- a/pageserver/ctl/src/draw_timeline_dir.rs
+++ b/pageserver/ctl/src/draw_timeline_dir.rs
@@ -83,10 +83,18 @@ fn parse_filename(name: &str) -> (Range<Key>, Range<Lsn>) {
    let keys: Vec<&str> = split[0].split('-').collect();
    let mut lsns: Vec<&str> = split[1].split('-').collect();

+    // The current format of the layer file name: 000000067F0000000400000B150100000000-000000067F0000000400000D350100000000__00000000014B7AC8-v1-00000001
+
+    // Handle generation number `-00000001` part
    if lsns.last().expect("should").len() == 8 {
        lsns.pop();
    }

+    // Handle version number `-v1` part
+    if lsns.last().expect("should").starts_with('v') {
+        lsns.pop();
+    }
+
    if lsns.len() == 1 {
        lsns.push(lsns[0]);
    }
--- a/pageserver/src/config.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/config.rs
@@ -33,15 +33,10 @@ use utils::{
 use crate::tenant::timeline::GetVectoredImpl;
 use crate::tenant::vectored_blob_io::MaxVectoredReadBytes;
 use crate::tenant::{config::TenantConfOpt, timeline::GetImpl};
-use crate::tenant::{
-    TENANTS_SEGMENT_NAME, TENANT_DELETED_MARKER_FILE_NAME, TIMELINES_SEGMENT_NAME,
-};
+use crate::tenant::{TENANTS_SEGMENT_NAME, TIMELINES_SEGMENT_NAME};
 use crate::{disk_usage_eviction_task::DiskUsageEvictionTaskConfig, virtual_file::io_engine};
 use crate::{tenant::config::TenantConf, virtual_file};
-use crate::{
-    IGNORED_TENANT_FILE_NAME, TENANT_CONFIG_NAME, TENANT_HEATMAP_BASENAME,
-    TENANT_LOCATION_CONFIG_NAME, TIMELINE_DELETE_MARK_SUFFIX,
-};
+use crate::{TENANT_HEATMAP_BASENAME, TENANT_LOCATION_CONFIG_NAME, TIMELINE_DELETE_MARK_SUFFIX};

 use self::defaults::DEFAULT_CONCURRENT_TENANT_WARMUP;

@@ -811,21 +806,12 @@ impl PageServerConf {
        self.tenants_path().join(tenant_shard_id.to_string())
    }

-    pub fn tenant_ignore_mark_file_path(&self, tenant_shard_id: &TenantShardId) -> Utf8PathBuf {
-        self.tenant_path(tenant_shard_id)
-            .join(IGNORED_TENANT_FILE_NAME)
-    }
-
    /// Points to a place in pageserver's local directory,
-    /// where certain tenant's tenantconf file should be located.
-    ///
-    /// Legacy: superseded by tenant_location_config_path.  Eventually
-    /// remove this function.
-    pub fn tenant_config_path(&self, tenant_shard_id: &TenantShardId) -> Utf8PathBuf {
-        self.tenant_path(tenant_shard_id).join(TENANT_CONFIG_NAME)
-    }
-
-    pub fn tenant_location_config_path(&self, tenant_shard_id: &TenantShardId) -> Utf8PathBuf {
+    /// where certain tenant's LocationConf be stored.
+    pub(crate) fn tenant_location_config_path(
+        &self,
+        tenant_shard_id: &TenantShardId,
+    ) -> Utf8PathBuf {
        self.tenant_path(tenant_shard_id)
            .join(TENANT_LOCATION_CONFIG_NAME)
    }
@@ -860,14 +846,6 @@ impl PageServerConf {
        )
    }

-    pub(crate) fn tenant_deleted_mark_file_path(
-        &self,
-        tenant_shard_id: &TenantShardId,
-    ) -> Utf8PathBuf {
-        self.tenant_path(tenant_shard_id)
-            .join(TENANT_DELETED_MARKER_FILE_NAME)
-    }
-
    pub fn traces_path(&self) -> Utf8PathBuf {
        self.workdir.join("traces")
    }
@@ -1468,7 +1446,7 @@ broker_endpoint = '{broker_endpoint}'
            assert_eq!(
                parsed_remote_storage_config,
                RemoteStorageConfig {
-                    storage: RemoteStorageKind::LocalFs(local_storage_path.clone()),
+                    storage: RemoteStorageKind::LocalFs { local_path: local_storage_path.clone() },
                    timeout: RemoteStorageConfig::DEFAULT_TIMEOUT,
                },
                "Remote storage config should correctly parse the local FS config and fill other storage defaults"
--- a/pageserver/src/consumption_metrics.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/consumption_metrics.rs
@@ -2,10 +2,9 @@
 //! and push them to a HTTP endpoint.
 use crate::context::{DownloadBehavior, RequestContext};
 use crate::task_mgr::{self, TaskKind, BACKGROUND_RUNTIME};
+use crate::tenant::size::CalculateSyntheticSizeError;
 use crate::tenant::tasks::BackgroundLoopKind;
-use crate::tenant::{
-    mgr::TenantManager, LogicalSizeCalculationCause, PageReconstructError, Tenant,
-};
+use crate::tenant::{mgr::TenantManager, LogicalSizeCalculationCause, Tenant};
 use camino::Utf8PathBuf;
 use consumption_metrics::EventType;
 use pageserver_api::models::TenantState;
@@ -350,19 +349,12 @@ async fn calculate_and_log(tenant: &Tenant, cancel: &CancellationToken, ctx: &Re
    // Same for the loop that fetches computed metrics.
    // By using the same limiter, we centralize metrics collection for "start" and "finished" counters,
    // which turns out is really handy to understand the system.
-    let Err(e) = tenant.calculate_synthetic_size(CAUSE, cancel, ctx).await else {
-        return;
-    };
-
-    // this error can be returned if timeline is shutting down, but it does not
-    // mean the synthetic size worker should terminate.
-    let shutting_down = matches!(
-        e.downcast_ref::<PageReconstructError>(),
-        Some(PageReconstructError::Cancelled)
-    );
-
-    if !shutting_down {
-        let tenant_shard_id = tenant.tenant_shard_id();
-        error!("failed to calculate synthetic size for tenant {tenant_shard_id}: {e:#}");
+    match tenant.calculate_synthetic_size(CAUSE, cancel, ctx).await {
+        Ok(_) => {}
+        Err(CalculateSyntheticSizeError::Cancelled) => {}
+        Err(e) => {
+            let tenant_shard_id = tenant.tenant_shard_id();
+            error!("failed to calculate synthetic size for tenant {tenant_shard_id}: {e:#}");
+        }
    }
 }
--- a/pageserver/src/deletion_queue.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/deletion_queue.rs
@@ -382,17 +382,6 @@ pub enum DeletionQueueError {
 }

 impl DeletionQueueClient {
-    pub(crate) fn broken() -> Self {
-        // Channels whose receivers are immediately dropped.
-        let (tx, _rx) = tokio::sync::mpsc::unbounded_channel();
-        let (executor_tx, _executor_rx) = tokio::sync::mpsc::channel(1);
-        Self {
-            tx,
-            executor_tx,
-            lsn_table: Arc::default(),
-        }
-    }
-
    /// This is cancel-safe.  If you drop the future before it completes, the message
    /// is not pushed, although in the context of the deletion queue it doesn't matter: once
    /// we decide to do a deletion the decision is always final.
@@ -850,7 +839,9 @@ mod test {
        std::fs::create_dir_all(remote_fs_dir)?;
        let remote_fs_dir = harness.conf.workdir.join("remote_fs").canonicalize_utf8()?;
        let storage_config = RemoteStorageConfig {
-            storage: RemoteStorageKind::LocalFs(remote_fs_dir.clone()),
+            storage: RemoteStorageKind::LocalFs {
+                local_path: remote_fs_dir.clone(),
+            },
            timeout: RemoteStorageConfig::DEFAULT_TIMEOUT,
        };
        let storage = GenericRemoteStorage::from_config(&storage_config).unwrap();
--- a/pageserver/src/http/openapi_spec.yml
+++ b/pageserver/src/http/openapi_spec.yml
@@ -78,29 +78,14 @@ paths:

    delete:
      description: |
-        Attempts to delete specified tenant. 500, 503 and 409 errors should be retried until 404 is retrieved.
-        404 means that deletion successfully finished"
+        Attempts to delete specified tenant. 500, 503 and 409 errors should be retried.  Deleting
+        a non-existent tenant is considered successful (returns 200).
      responses:
        "200":
          description: Tenant was successfully deleted, or was already not found.
-        "404":
-          description: Tenant not found. This is a success result, equivalent to 200.
-          content:
-            application/json:
-              schema:
-                $ref: "#/components/schemas/NotFoundError"
-        "409":
-          description: Deletion is already in progress, continue polling
-          content:
-            application/json:
-              schema:
-                $ref: "#/components/schemas/ConflictError"
-        "412":
-          description: Deletion may not proceed, tenant is not in Active state
-          content:
-            application/json:
-              schema:
-                $ref: "#/components/schemas/PreconditionFailedError"
+        "503":
+          description: Service is unavailable, or tenant is already being modified (perhaps concurrently deleted)
+

  /v1/tenant/{tenant_id}/time_travel_remote_storage:
    parameters:
@@ -251,6 +236,13 @@ paths:
            type: string
            format: date-time
          description: A timestamp to get the LSN
+        - name: with_lease
+          in: query
+          required: false
+          schema:
+            type: boolean
+          description: Whether to grant a lease to the corresponding LSN. Default to false.
+
      responses:
        "200":
          description: OK
@@ -375,62 +367,11 @@ paths:
                $ref: "#/components/schemas/TenantLocationConfigResponse"
        "409":
          description: |
-            The tenant is already known to Pageserver in some way,
-            and hence this `/attach` call has been rejected.
-
-            Some examples of how this can happen:
-            - tenant was created on this pageserver
-            - tenant attachment was started by an earlier call to `/attach`.
-
-            Callers should poll the tenant status's `attachment_status` field,
-            like for status 202. See the longer description for `POST /attach`
-            for details.
+            The tenant is already being modified, perhaps by a concurrent call to this API
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: "#/components/schemas/ConflictError"
-  /v1/tenant/{tenant_id}/ignore:
-    parameters:
-      - name: tenant_id
-        in: path
-        required: true
-        schema:
-          type: string
-    post:
-      description: |
-        Remove tenant data (including all corresponding timelines) from pageserver's memory.
-        Files on local disk and remote storage are not affected.
-
-        Future pageserver restarts won't load the data back until `load` is called on such tenant.
-      responses:
-        "200":
-          description: Tenant ignored
-
-
-  /v1/tenant/{tenant_id}/load:
-    parameters:
-      - name: tenant_id
-        in: path
-        required: true
-        schema:
-          type: string
-    post:
-      description: |
-        Schedules an operation that attempts to load a tenant from the local disk and
-        synchronise it with the remote storage (if enabled), repeating pageserver's restart logic for tenant load.
-        If the tenant was ignored before, removes the ignore mark and continues with load scheduling.
-
-        Errors if the tenant is absent on disk, already present in memory or fails to schedule its load.
-        Scheduling a load does not mean that the tenant would load successfully, check tenant status to ensure load correctness.
-      requestBody:
-        required: false
-        content:
-          application/json:
-            schema:
-              $ref: "#/components/schemas/TenantLoadRequest"
-      responses:
-        "202":
-          description: Tenant scheduled to load successfully

  /v1/tenant/{tenant_id}/{timeline_id}/preserve_initdb_archive:
    parameters:
@@ -812,8 +753,6 @@ components:
              For example this can be caused by s3 being unreachable. The retry may be implemented
              with call to detach, though it would be better to not automate it and inspec failed state
              manually before proceeding with a retry.
-
-            See the tenant `/attach` endpoint for more information.
          type: object
          required:
            - slug
@@ -1086,6 +1025,10 @@ components:
        kind:
          type: string
          enum: [past, present, future, nodata]
+        valid_until:
+          type: string
+          format: date-time
+          description: The expiration time of the granted lease.

    LsnLease:
      type: object
--- a/pageserver/src/http/routes.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/http/routes.rs
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ use pageserver_api::models::IngestAuxFilesRequest;
 use pageserver_api::models::ListAuxFilesRequest;
 use pageserver_api::models::LocationConfig;
 use pageserver_api::models::LocationConfigListResponse;
+use pageserver_api::models::LsnLease;
 use pageserver_api::models::ShardParameters;
 use pageserver_api::models::TenantDetails;
 use pageserver_api::models::TenantLocationConfigResponse;
@@ -30,13 +31,11 @@ use pageserver_api::models::TenantShardLocation;
 use pageserver_api::models::TenantShardSplitRequest;
 use pageserver_api::models::TenantShardSplitResponse;
 use pageserver_api::models::TenantSorting;
-use pageserver_api::models::TenantState;
 use pageserver_api::models::TopTenantShardItem;
 use pageserver_api::models::TopTenantShardsRequest;
 use pageserver_api::models::TopTenantShardsResponse;
 use pageserver_api::models::{
-    DownloadRemoteLayersTaskSpawnRequest, LocationConfigMode, TenantAttachRequest,
-    TenantLoadRequest, TenantLocationConfigRequest,
+    DownloadRemoteLayersTaskSpawnRequest, LocationConfigMode, TenantLocationConfigRequest,
 };
 use pageserver_api::shard::ShardCount;
 use pageserver_api::shard::TenantShardId;
@@ -50,12 +49,10 @@ use utils::auth::JwtAuth;
 use utils::failpoint_support::failpoints_handler;
 use utils::http::endpoint::prometheus_metrics_handler;
 use utils::http::endpoint::request_span;
-use utils::http::json::json_request_or_empty_body;
 use utils::http::request::{get_request_param, must_get_query_param, parse_query_param};

 use crate::context::{DownloadBehavior, RequestContext};
 use crate::deletion_queue::DeletionQueueClient;
-use crate::metrics::{StorageTimeOperation, STORAGE_TIME_GLOBAL};
 use crate::pgdatadir_mapping::LsnForTimestamp;
 use crate::task_mgr::TaskKind;
 use crate::tenant::config::{LocationConf, TenantConfOpt};
@@ -77,13 +74,12 @@ use crate::tenant::timeline::CompactFlags;
 use crate::tenant::timeline::CompactionError;
 use crate::tenant::timeline::Timeline;
 use crate::tenant::GetTimelineError;
-use crate::tenant::SpawnMode;
 use crate::tenant::{LogicalSizeCalculationCause, PageReconstructError};
 use crate::{config::PageServerConf, tenant::mgr};
 use crate::{disk_usage_eviction_task, tenant};
 use pageserver_api::models::{
-    StatusResponse, TenantConfigRequest, TenantCreateRequest, TenantCreateResponse, TenantInfo,
-    TimelineCreateRequest, TimelineGcRequest, TimelineInfo,
+    StatusResponse, TenantConfigRequest, TenantInfo, TimelineCreateRequest, TimelineGcRequest,
+    TimelineInfo,
 };
 use utils::{
    auth::SwappableJwtAuth,
@@ -205,7 +201,6 @@ impl From<TenantSlotError> for ApiError {
            NotFound(tenant_id) => {
                ApiError::NotFound(anyhow::anyhow!("NotFound: tenant {tenant_id}").into())
            }
-            e @ AlreadyExists(_, _) => ApiError::Conflict(format!("{e}")),
            InProgress => {
                ApiError::ResourceUnavailable("Tenant is being modified concurrently".into())
            }
@@ -330,18 +325,12 @@ impl From<crate::tenant::mgr::DeleteTimelineError> for ApiError {
    }
 }

-impl From<crate::tenant::delete::DeleteTenantError> for ApiError {
-    fn from(value: crate::tenant::delete::DeleteTenantError) -> Self {
-        use crate::tenant::delete::DeleteTenantError::*;
+impl From<crate::tenant::mgr::DeleteTenantError> for ApiError {
+    fn from(value: crate::tenant::mgr::DeleteTenantError) -> Self {
+        use crate::tenant::mgr::DeleteTenantError::*;
        match value {
-            Get(g) => ApiError::from(g),
-            e @ AlreadyInProgress => ApiError::Conflict(e.to_string()),
-            Timeline(t) => ApiError::from(t),
-            NotAttached => ApiError::NotFound(anyhow::anyhow!("Tenant is not attached").into()),
            SlotError(e) => e.into(),
-            SlotUpsertError(e) => e.into(),
            Other(o) => ApiError::InternalServerError(o),
-            e @ InvalidState(_) => ApiError::PreconditionFailed(e.to_string().into_boxed_str()),
            Cancelled => ApiError::ShuttingDown,
        }
    }
@@ -735,6 +724,8 @@ async fn get_lsn_by_timestamp_handler(
        .map_err(ApiError::BadRequest)?;
    let timestamp_pg = postgres_ffi::to_pg_timestamp(timestamp);

+    let with_lease = parse_query_param(&request, "with_lease")?.unwrap_or(false);
+
    let ctx = RequestContext::new(TaskKind::MgmtRequest, DownloadBehavior::Download);

    let timeline =
@@ -743,10 +734,15 @@ async fn get_lsn_by_timestamp_handler(
    let result = timeline
        .find_lsn_for_timestamp(timestamp_pg, &cancel, &ctx)
        .await?;
+
    #[derive(serde::Serialize, Debug)]
    struct Result {
        lsn: Lsn,
        kind: &'static str,
+        #[serde(default)]
+        #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+        #[serde(flatten)]
+        lease: Option<LsnLease>,
    }
    let (lsn, kind) = match result {
        LsnForTimestamp::Present(lsn) => (lsn, "present"),
@@ -754,11 +750,28 @@ async fn get_lsn_by_timestamp_handler(
        LsnForTimestamp::Past(lsn) => (lsn, "past"),
        LsnForTimestamp::NoData(lsn) => (lsn, "nodata"),
    };
-    let result = Result { lsn, kind };
+
+    let lease = if with_lease {
+        timeline
+            .make_lsn_lease(lsn, timeline.get_lsn_lease_length_for_ts(), &ctx)
+            .inspect_err(|_| {
+                warn!("fail to grant a lease to {}", lsn);
+            })
+            .ok()
+    } else {
+        None
+    };
+
+    let result = Result { lsn, kind, lease };
+    let valid_until = result
+        .lease
+        .as_ref()
+        .map(|l| humantime::format_rfc3339_millis(l.valid_until).to_string());
    tracing::info!(
        lsn=?result.lsn,
        kind=%result.kind,
        timestamp=%timestamp_raw,
+        valid_until=?valid_until,
        "lsn_by_timestamp finished"
    );
    json_response(StatusCode::OK, result)
@@ -803,58 +816,6 @@ async fn get_timestamp_of_lsn_handler(
    }
 }

-async fn tenant_attach_handler(
-    mut request: Request<Body>,
-    _cancel: CancellationToken,
-) -> Result<Response<Body>, ApiError> {
-    let tenant_id: TenantId = parse_request_param(&request, "tenant_id")?;
-    check_permission(&request, Some(tenant_id))?;
-
-    let maybe_body: Option<TenantAttachRequest> = json_request_or_empty_body(&mut request).await?;
-    let tenant_conf = match &maybe_body {
-        Some(request) => TenantConfOpt::try_from(&*request.config).map_err(ApiError::BadRequest)?,
-        None => TenantConfOpt::default(),
-    };
-
-    let ctx = RequestContext::new(TaskKind::MgmtRequest, DownloadBehavior::Warn);
-
-    info!("Handling tenant attach {tenant_id}");
-
-    let state = get_state(&request);
-
-    let generation = get_request_generation(state, maybe_body.as_ref().and_then(|r| r.generation))?;
-
-    let tenant_shard_id = TenantShardId::unsharded(tenant_id);
-    let shard_params = ShardParameters::default();
-    let location_conf = LocationConf::attached_single(tenant_conf, generation, &shard_params);
-
-    let tenant = state
-        .tenant_manager
-        .upsert_location(tenant_shard_id, location_conf, None, SpawnMode::Eager, &ctx)
-        .await?;
-
-    let Some(tenant) = tenant else {
-        // This should never happen: indicates a bug in upsert_location
-        return Err(ApiError::InternalServerError(anyhow::anyhow!(
-            "Upsert succeeded but didn't return tenant!"
-        )));
-    };
-
-    // We might have successfully constructed a Tenant, but it could still
-    // end up in a broken state:
-    if let TenantState::Broken {
-        reason,
-        backtrace: _,
-    } = tenant.current_state()
-    {
-        return Err(ApiError::InternalServerError(anyhow::anyhow!(
-            "Tenant state is Broken: {reason}"
-        )));
-    }
-
-    json_response(StatusCode::ACCEPTED, ())
-}
-
 async fn timeline_delete_handler(
    request: Request<Body>,
    _cancel: CancellationToken,
@@ -885,33 +846,6 @@ async fn timeline_delete_handler(
    json_response(StatusCode::ACCEPTED, ())
 }

-async fn tenant_detach_handler(
-    request: Request<Body>,
-    _cancel: CancellationToken,
-) -> Result<Response<Body>, ApiError> {
-    let tenant_id: TenantId = parse_request_param(&request, "tenant_id")?;
-    check_permission(&request, Some(tenant_id))?;
-    let detach_ignored: Option<bool> = parse_query_param(&request, "detach_ignored")?;
-
-    // This is a legacy API (`/location_conf` is the replacement).  It only supports unsharded tenants
-    let tenant_shard_id = TenantShardId::unsharded(tenant_id);
-
-    let state = get_state(&request);
-    let conf = state.conf;
-    state
-        .tenant_manager
-        .detach_tenant(
-            conf,
-            tenant_shard_id,
-            detach_ignored.unwrap_or(false),
-            &state.deletion_queue_client,
-        )
-        .instrument(info_span!("tenant_detach", %tenant_id, shard_id=%tenant_shard_id.shard_slug()))
-        .await?;
-
-    json_response(StatusCode::OK, ())
-}
-
 async fn tenant_reset_handler(
    request: Request<Body>,
    _cancel: CancellationToken,
@@ -932,54 +866,6 @@ async fn tenant_reset_handler(
    json_response(StatusCode::OK, ())
 }

-async fn tenant_load_handler(
-    mut request: Request<Body>,
-    _cancel: CancellationToken,
-) -> Result<Response<Body>, ApiError> {
-    let tenant_id: TenantId = parse_request_param(&request, "tenant_id")?;
-    check_permission(&request, Some(tenant_id))?;
-
-    let ctx = RequestContext::new(TaskKind::MgmtRequest, DownloadBehavior::Warn);
-
-    let maybe_body: Option<TenantLoadRequest> = json_request_or_empty_body(&mut request).await?;
-
-    let state = get_state(&request);
-
-    // The /load request is only usable when control_plane_api is not set.  Once it is set, callers
-    // should always use /attach instead.
-    let generation = get_request_generation(state, maybe_body.as_ref().and_then(|r| r.generation))?;
-
-    mgr::load_tenant(
-        state.conf,
-        tenant_id,
-        generation,
-        state.broker_client.clone(),
-        state.remote_storage.clone(),
-        state.deletion_queue_client.clone(),
-        &ctx,
-    )
-    .instrument(info_span!("load", %tenant_id))
-    .await?;
-
-    json_response(StatusCode::ACCEPTED, ())
-}
-
-async fn tenant_ignore_handler(
-    request: Request<Body>,
-    _cancel: CancellationToken,
-) -> Result<Response<Body>, ApiError> {
-    let tenant_id: TenantId = parse_request_param(&request, "tenant_id")?;
-    check_permission(&request, Some(tenant_id))?;
-
-    let state = get_state(&request);
-    let conf = state.conf;
-    mgr::ignore_tenant(conf, tenant_id)
-        .instrument(info_span!("ignore_tenant", %tenant_id))
-        .await?;
-
-    json_response(StatusCode::OK, ())
-}
-
 async fn tenant_list_handler(
    request: Request<Body>,
    _cancel: CancellationToken,
@@ -999,7 +885,9 @@ async fn tenant_list_handler(
            state: state.clone(),
            current_physical_size: None,
            attachment_status: state.attachment_status(),
-            generation: (*gen).into(),
+            generation: (*gen)
+                .into()
+                .expect("Tenants are always attached with a generation"),
        })
        .collect::<Vec<TenantInfo>>();

@@ -1047,7 +935,10 @@ async fn tenant_status(
                state: state.clone(),
                current_physical_size: Some(current_physical_size),
                attachment_status: state.attachment_status(),
-                generation: tenant.generation().into(),
+                generation: tenant
+                    .generation()
+                    .into()
+                    .expect("Tenants are always attached with a generation"),
            },
            walredo: tenant.wal_redo_manager_status(),
            timelines: tenant.list_timeline_ids(),
@@ -1071,23 +962,16 @@ async fn tenant_delete_handler(

    let state = get_state(&request);

-    let status = state
+    state
        .tenant_manager
-        .delete_tenant(tenant_shard_id, ACTIVE_TENANT_TIMEOUT)
+        .delete_tenant(tenant_shard_id)
        .instrument(info_span!("tenant_delete_handler",
            tenant_id = %tenant_shard_id.tenant_id,
            shard_id = %tenant_shard_id.shard_slug()
        ))
        .await?;

-    // Callers use 404 as success for deletions, for historical reasons.
-    if status == StatusCode::NOT_FOUND {
-        return Err(ApiError::NotFound(
-            anyhow::anyhow!("Deletion complete").into(),
-        ));
-    }
-
-    json_response(status, ())
+    json_response(StatusCode::OK, ())
 }

 /// HTTP endpoint to query the current tenant_size of a tenant.
@@ -1135,7 +1019,10 @@ async fn tenant_size_handler(
            &ctx,
        )
        .await
-        .map_err(ApiError::InternalServerError)?;
+        .map_err(|e| match e {
+            crate::tenant::size::CalculateSyntheticSizeError::Cancelled => ApiError::ShuttingDown,
+            other => ApiError::InternalServerError(anyhow::anyhow!(other)),
+        })?;

    let mut sizes = None;
    let accepts_html = headers
@@ -1143,9 +1030,7 @@ async fn tenant_size_handler(
        .map(|v| v == "text/html")
        .unwrap_or_default();
    if !inputs_only.unwrap_or(false) {
-        let storage_model = inputs
-            .calculate_model()
-            .map_err(ApiError::InternalServerError)?;
+        let storage_model = inputs.calculate_model();
        let size = storage_model.calculate();

        // If request header expects html, return html
@@ -1350,75 +1235,6 @@ pub fn html_response(status: StatusCode, data: String) -> Result<Response<Body>,
    Ok(response)
 }

-/// Helper for requests that may take a generation, which is mandatory
-/// when control_plane_api is set, but otherwise defaults to Generation::none()
-fn get_request_generation(state: &State, req_gen: Option<u32>) -> Result<Generation, ApiError> {
-    if state.conf.control_plane_api.is_some() {
-        req_gen
-            .map(Generation::new)
-            .ok_or(ApiError::BadRequest(anyhow!(
-                "generation attribute missing"
-            )))
-    } else {
-        // Legacy mode: all tenants operate with no generation
-        Ok(Generation::none())
-    }
-}
-
-async fn tenant_create_handler(
-    mut request: Request<Body>,
-    _cancel: CancellationToken,
-) -> Result<Response<Body>, ApiError> {
-    let request_data: TenantCreateRequest = json_request(&mut request).await?;
-    let target_tenant_id = request_data.new_tenant_id;
-    check_permission(&request, None)?;
-
-    let _timer = STORAGE_TIME_GLOBAL
-        .get_metric_with_label_values(&[StorageTimeOperation::CreateTenant.into()])
-        .expect("bug")
-        .start_timer();
-
-    let tenant_conf =
-        TenantConfOpt::try_from(&request_data.config).map_err(ApiError::BadRequest)?;
-
-    let state = get_state(&request);
-
-    let generation = get_request_generation(state, request_data.generation)?;
-
-    let ctx = RequestContext::new(TaskKind::MgmtRequest, DownloadBehavior::Warn);
-
-    let location_conf =
-        LocationConf::attached_single(tenant_conf, generation, &request_data.shard_parameters);
-
-    let new_tenant = state
-        .tenant_manager
-        .upsert_location(
-            target_tenant_id,
-            location_conf,
-            None,
-            SpawnMode::Create,
-            &ctx,
-        )
-        .await?;
-
-    let Some(new_tenant) = new_tenant else {
-        // This should never happen: indicates a bug in upsert_location
-        return Err(ApiError::InternalServerError(anyhow::anyhow!(
-            "Upsert succeeded but didn't return tenant!"
-        )));
-    };
-    // We created the tenant. Existing API semantics are that the tenant
-    // is Active when this function returns.
-    new_tenant
-        .wait_to_become_active(ACTIVE_TENANT_TIMEOUT)
-        .await?;
-
-    json_response(
-        StatusCode::CREATED,
-        TenantCreateResponse(new_tenant.tenant_shard_id().tenant_id),
-    )
-}
-
 async fn get_tenant_config_handler(
    request: Request<Body>,
    _cancel: CancellationToken,
@@ -1506,7 +1322,7 @@ async fn put_tenant_location_config_handler(
    if let LocationConfigMode::Detached = request_data.config.mode {
        if let Err(e) = state
            .tenant_manager
-            .detach_tenant(conf, tenant_shard_id, true, &state.deletion_queue_client)
+            .detach_tenant(conf, tenant_shard_id, &state.deletion_queue_client)
            .instrument(info_span!("tenant_detach",
                tenant_id = %tenant_shard_id.tenant_id,
                shard_id = %tenant_shard_id.shard_slug()
@@ -1729,7 +1545,7 @@ async fn lsn_lease_handler(
        active_timeline_of_active_tenant(&state.tenant_manager, tenant_shard_id, timeline_id)
            .await?;
    let result = timeline
-        .make_lsn_lease(lsn, &ctx)
+        .make_lsn_lease(lsn, timeline.get_lsn_lease_length(), &ctx)
        .map_err(|e| ApiError::InternalServerError(e.context("lsn lease http handler")))?;

    json_response(StatusCode::OK, result)
@@ -1770,6 +1586,14 @@ async fn timeline_compact_handler(
    if Some(true) == parse_query_param::<_, bool>(&request, "force_image_layer_creation")? {
        flags |= CompactFlags::ForceImageLayerCreation;
    }
+    if Some(true) == parse_query_param::<_, bool>(&request, "enhanced_gc_bottom_most_compaction")? {
+        if !cfg!(feature = "testing") {
+            return Err(ApiError::InternalServerError(anyhow!(
+                "enhanced_gc_bottom_most_compaction is only available in testing mode"
+            )));
+        }
+        flags |= CompactFlags::EnhancedGcBottomMostCompaction;
+    }
    let wait_until_uploaded =
        parse_query_param::<_, bool>(&request, "wait_until_uploaded")?.unwrap_or(false);

@@ -2716,7 +2540,6 @@ pub fn make_router(
            api_handler(r, reload_auth_validation_keys_handler)
        })
        .get("/v1/tenant", |r| api_handler(r, tenant_list_handler))
-        .post("/v1/tenant", |r| api_handler(r, tenant_create_handler))
        .get("/v1/tenant/:tenant_shard_id", |r| {
            api_handler(r, tenant_status)
        })
@@ -2754,21 +2577,9 @@ pub fn make_router(
        .post("/v1/tenant/:tenant_shard_id/timeline", |r| {
            api_handler(r, timeline_create_handler)
        })
-        .post("/v1/tenant/:tenant_id/attach", |r| {
-            api_handler(r, tenant_attach_handler)
-        })
-        .post("/v1/tenant/:tenant_id/detach", |r| {
-            api_handler(r, tenant_detach_handler)
-        })
        .post("/v1/tenant/:tenant_shard_id/reset", |r| {
            api_handler(r, tenant_reset_handler)
        })
-        .post("/v1/tenant/:tenant_id/load", |r| {
-            api_handler(r, tenant_load_handler)
-        })
-        .post("/v1/tenant/:tenant_id/ignore", |r| {
-            api_handler(r, tenant_ignore_handler)
-        })
        .post(
            "/v1/tenant/:tenant_shard_id/timeline/:timeline_id/preserve_initdb_archive",
            |r| api_handler(r, timeline_preserve_initdb_handler),
--- a/pageserver/src/lib.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/lib.rs
@@ -113,11 +113,7 @@ pub async fn shutdown_pageserver(
 }

 /// Per-tenant configuration file.
-/// Full path: `tenants/<tenant_id>/config`.
-pub(crate) const TENANT_CONFIG_NAME: &str = "config";
-
-/// Per-tenant configuration file.
-/// Full path: `tenants/<tenant_id>/config`.
+/// Full path: `tenants/<tenant_id>/config-v1`.
 pub(crate) const TENANT_LOCATION_CONFIG_NAME: &str = "config-v1";

 /// Per-tenant copy of their remote heatmap, downloaded into the local
@@ -136,13 +132,6 @@ pub(crate) const TIMELINE_UNINIT_MARK_SUFFIX: &str = "___uninit";

 pub(crate) const TIMELINE_DELETE_MARK_SUFFIX: &str = "___delete";

-/// A marker file to prevent pageserver from loading a certain tenant on restart.
-/// Different from [`TIMELINE_UNINIT_MARK_SUFFIX`] due to semantics of the corresponding
-/// `ignore` management API command, that expects the ignored tenant to be properly loaded
-/// into pageserver's memory before being ignored.
-/// Full path: `tenants/<tenant_id>/___ignored_tenant`.
-pub const IGNORED_TENANT_FILE_NAME: &str = "___ignored_tenant";
-
 pub fn is_temporary(path: &Utf8Path) -> bool {
    match path.file_name() {
        Some(name) => name.ends_with(TEMP_FILE_SUFFIX),
--- a/pageserver/src/metrics.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/metrics.rs
@@ -53,9 +53,6 @@ pub(crate) enum StorageTimeOperation {

    #[strum(serialize = "find gc cutoffs")]
    FindGcCutoffs,
-
-    #[strum(serialize = "create tenant")]
-    CreateTenant,
 }

 pub(crate) static STORAGE_TIME_SUM_PER_TIMELINE: Lazy<CounterVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
@@ -145,14 +142,6 @@ impl ReconstructTimeMetrics {
    }
 }

-pub(crate) static MATERIALIZED_PAGE_CACHE_HIT_DIRECT: Lazy<IntCounter> = Lazy::new(|| {
-    register_int_counter!(
-        "pageserver_materialized_cache_hits_direct_total",
-        "Number of cache hits from materialized page cache without redo",
-    )
-    .expect("failed to define a metric")
-});
-
 pub(crate) struct ReconstructDataTimeMetrics {
    singular: Histogram,
    vectored: Histogram,
@@ -182,14 +171,6 @@ pub(crate) static GET_RECONSTRUCT_DATA_TIME: Lazy<ReconstructDataTimeMetrics> =
    }
 });

-pub(crate) static MATERIALIZED_PAGE_CACHE_HIT: Lazy<IntCounter> = Lazy::new(|| {
-    register_int_counter!(
-        "pageserver_materialized_cache_hits_total",
-        "Number of cache hits from materialized page cache",
-    )
-    .expect("failed to define a metric")
-});
-
 pub(crate) struct GetVectoredLatency {
    map: EnumMap<TaskKind, Option<Histogram>>,
 }
@@ -298,12 +279,8 @@ pub(crate) static SCAN_LATENCY: Lazy<ScanLatency> = Lazy::new(|| {
 });

 pub(crate) struct PageCacheMetricsForTaskKind {
-    pub read_accesses_materialized_page: IntCounter,
    pub read_accesses_immutable: IntCounter,
-
    pub read_hits_immutable: IntCounter,
-    pub read_hits_materialized_page_exact: IntCounter,
-    pub read_hits_materialized_page_older_lsn: IntCounter,
 }

 pub(crate) struct PageCacheMetrics {
@@ -336,16 +313,6 @@ pub(crate) static PAGE_CACHE: Lazy<PageCacheMetrics> = Lazy::new(|| PageCacheMet
            let content_kind = <PageContentKind as enum_map::Enum>::from_usize(content_kind);
            let content_kind: &'static str = content_kind.into();
            PageCacheMetricsForTaskKind {
-                read_accesses_materialized_page: {
-                    PAGE_CACHE_READ_ACCESSES
-                        .get_metric_with_label_values(&[
-                            task_kind,
-                            "materialized_page",
-                            content_kind,
-                        ])
-                        .unwrap()
-                },
-
                read_accesses_immutable: {
                    PAGE_CACHE_READ_ACCESSES
                        .get_metric_with_label_values(&[task_kind, "immutable", content_kind])
@@ -357,28 +324,6 @@ pub(crate) static PAGE_CACHE: Lazy<PageCacheMetrics> = Lazy::new(|| PageCacheMet
                        .get_metric_with_label_values(&[task_kind, "immutable", content_kind, "-"])
                        .unwrap()
                },
-
-                read_hits_materialized_page_exact: {
-                    PAGE_CACHE_READ_HITS
-                        .get_metric_with_label_values(&[
-                            task_kind,
-                            "materialized_page",
-                            content_kind,
-                            "exact",
-                        ])
-                        .unwrap()
-                },
-
-                read_hits_materialized_page_older_lsn: {
-                    PAGE_CACHE_READ_HITS
-                        .get_metric_with_label_values(&[
-                            task_kind,
-                            "materialized_page",
-                            content_kind,
-                            "older_lsn",
-                        ])
-                        .unwrap()
-                },
            }
        }))
    })),
@@ -394,7 +339,6 @@ pub(crate) struct PageCacheSizeMetrics {
    pub max_bytes: UIntGauge,

    pub current_bytes_immutable: UIntGauge,
-    pub current_bytes_materialized_page: UIntGauge,
 }

 static PAGE_CACHE_SIZE_CURRENT_BYTES: Lazy<UIntGaugeVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
@@ -420,11 +364,6 @@ pub(crate) static PAGE_CACHE_SIZE: Lazy<PageCacheSizeMetrics> =
                .get_metric_with_label_values(&["immutable"])
                .unwrap()
        },
-        current_bytes_materialized_page: {
-            PAGE_CACHE_SIZE_CURRENT_BYTES
-                .get_metric_with_label_values(&["materialized_page"])
-                .unwrap()
-        },
    });

 pub(crate) mod page_cache_eviction_metrics {
@@ -603,6 +542,15 @@ static AUX_FILE_SIZE: Lazy<IntGaugeVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
    .expect("failed to define a metric")
 });

+static VALID_LSN_LEASE_COUNT: Lazy<UIntGaugeVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
+    register_uint_gauge_vec!(
+        "pageserver_valid_lsn_lease_count",
+        "The number of valid leases after refreshing gc info.",
+        &["tenant_id", "shard_id", "timeline_id"],
+    )
+    .expect("failed to define a metric")
+});
+
 pub(crate) mod initial_logical_size {
    use metrics::{register_int_counter, register_int_counter_vec, IntCounter, IntCounterVec};
    use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
@@ -1405,17 +1353,23 @@ static COMPUTE_STARTUP_BUCKETS: Lazy<[f64; 28]> = Lazy::new(|| {
    .map(|ms| (ms as f64) / 1000.0)
 });

-pub(crate) struct BasebackupQueryTime(HistogramVec);
+pub(crate) struct BasebackupQueryTime {
+    ok: Histogram,
+    error: Histogram,
+}
+
 pub(crate) static BASEBACKUP_QUERY_TIME: Lazy<BasebackupQueryTime> = Lazy::new(|| {
-    BasebackupQueryTime({
-        register_histogram_vec!(
-            "pageserver_basebackup_query_seconds",
-            "Histogram of basebackup queries durations, by result type",
-            &["result"],
-            COMPUTE_STARTUP_BUCKETS.to_vec(),
-        )
-        .expect("failed to define a metric")
-    })
+    let vec = register_histogram_vec!(
+        "pageserver_basebackup_query_seconds",
+        "Histogram of basebackup queries durations, by result type",
+        &["result"],
+        COMPUTE_STARTUP_BUCKETS.to_vec(),
+    )
+    .expect("failed to define a metric");
+    BasebackupQueryTime {
+        ok: vec.get_metric_with_label_values(&["ok"]).unwrap(),
+        error: vec.get_metric_with_label_values(&["error"]).unwrap(),
+    }
 });

 pub(crate) struct BasebackupQueryTimeOngoingRecording<'a, 'c> {
@@ -1470,12 +1424,11 @@ impl<'a, 'c> BasebackupQueryTimeOngoingRecording<'a, 'c> {
                elapsed
            }
        };
-        let label_value = if res.is_ok() { "ok" } else { "error" };
-        let metric = self
-            .parent
-            .0
-            .get_metric_with_label_values(&[label_value])
-            .unwrap();
+        let metric = if res.is_ok() {
+            &self.parent.ok
+        } else {
+            &self.parent.error
+        };
        metric.observe(ex_throttled.as_secs_f64());
    }
 }
@@ -1489,6 +1442,46 @@ pub(crate) static LIVE_CONNECTIONS_COUNT: Lazy<IntGaugeVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
    .expect("failed to define a metric")
 });

+#[derive(Clone, Copy, enum_map::Enum, IntoStaticStr)]
+pub(crate) enum ComputeCommandKind {
+    PageStreamV2,
+    PageStream,
+    Basebackup,
+    GetLastRecordRlsn,
+    Fullbackup,
+    ImportBasebackup,
+    ImportWal,
+    LeaseLsn,
+    Show,
+}
+
+pub(crate) struct ComputeCommandCounters {
+    map: EnumMap<ComputeCommandKind, IntCounter>,
+}
+
+pub(crate) static COMPUTE_COMMANDS_COUNTERS: Lazy<ComputeCommandCounters> = Lazy::new(|| {
+    let inner = register_int_counter_vec!(
+        "pageserver_compute_commands",
+        "Number of compute -> pageserver commands processed",
+        &["command"]
+    )
+    .expect("failed to define a metric");
+
+    ComputeCommandCounters {
+        map: EnumMap::from_array(std::array::from_fn(|i| {
+            let command = <ComputeCommandKind as enum_map::Enum>::from_usize(i);
+            let command_str: &'static str = command.into();
+            inner.with_label_values(&[command_str])
+        })),
+    }
+});
+
+impl ComputeCommandCounters {
+    pub(crate) fn for_command(&self, command: ComputeCommandKind) -> &IntCounter {
+        &self.map[command]
+    }
+}
+
 // remote storage metrics

 static REMOTE_TIMELINE_CLIENT_CALLS: Lazy<IntCounterPairVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
@@ -2108,6 +2101,8 @@ pub(crate) struct TimelineMetrics {
    pub directory_entries_count_gauge: Lazy<UIntGauge, Box<dyn Send + Fn() -> UIntGauge>>,
    pub evictions: IntCounter,
    pub evictions_with_low_residence_duration: std::sync::RwLock<EvictionsWithLowResidenceDuration>,
+    /// Number of valid LSN leases.
+    pub valid_lsn_lease_count_gauge: UIntGauge,
    shutdown: std::sync::atomic::AtomicBool,
 }

@@ -2206,6 +2201,10 @@ impl TimelineMetrics {
        let evictions_with_low_residence_duration = evictions_with_low_residence_duration_builder
            .build(&tenant_id, &shard_id, &timeline_id);

+        let valid_lsn_lease_count_gauge = VALID_LSN_LEASE_COUNT
+            .get_metric_with_label_values(&[&tenant_id, &shard_id, &timeline_id])
+            .unwrap();
+
        TimelineMetrics {
            tenant_id,
            shard_id,
@@ -2228,6 +2227,7 @@ impl TimelineMetrics {
            evictions_with_low_residence_duration: std::sync::RwLock::new(
                evictions_with_low_residence_duration,
            ),
+            valid_lsn_lease_count_gauge,
            shutdown: std::sync::atomic::AtomicBool::default(),
        }
    }
@@ -2277,6 +2277,7 @@ impl TimelineMetrics {
        }
        let _ = EVICTIONS.remove_label_values(&[tenant_id, shard_id, timeline_id]);
        let _ = AUX_FILE_SIZE.remove_label_values(&[tenant_id, shard_id, timeline_id]);
+        let _ = VALID_LSN_LEASE_COUNT.remove_label_values(&[tenant_id, shard_id, timeline_id]);

        self.evictions_with_low_residence_duration
            .write()
@@ -2918,13 +2919,11 @@ pub fn preinitialize_metrics() {
    // FIXME(4813): make it so that we have no top level metrics as this fn will easily fall out of
    // order:
    // - global metrics reside in a Lazy<PageserverMetrics>
-    //   - access via crate::metrics::PS_METRICS.materialized_page_cache_hit.inc()
+    //   - access via crate::metrics::PS_METRICS.some_metric.inc()
    // - could move the statics into TimelineMetrics::new()?

    // counters
    [
-        &MATERIALIZED_PAGE_CACHE_HIT,
-        &MATERIALIZED_PAGE_CACHE_HIT_DIRECT,
        &UNEXPECTED_ONDEMAND_DOWNLOADS,
        &WALRECEIVER_STARTED_CONNECTIONS,
        &WALRECEIVER_BROKER_UPDATES,
@@ -2986,4 +2985,6 @@ pub fn preinitialize_metrics() {
    // Custom
    Lazy::force(&RECONSTRUCT_TIME);
    Lazy::force(&tenant_throttling::TIMELINE_GET);
+    Lazy::force(&BASEBACKUP_QUERY_TIME);
+    Lazy::force(&COMPUTE_COMMANDS_COUNTERS);
 }
--- a/pageserver/src/page_cache.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/page_cache.rs
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 //!
 //! Two types of pages are supported:
 //!
-//! * **Materialized pages**, filled & used by page reconstruction
 //! * **Immutable File pages**, filled & used by [`crate::tenant::block_io`] and [`crate::tenant::ephemeral_file`].
 //!
 //! Note that [`crate::tenant::ephemeral_file::EphemeralFile`] is generally mutable, but, it's append-only.
@@ -28,9 +27,6 @@
 //! Page cache maps from a cache key to a buffer slot.
 //! The cache key uniquely identifies the piece of data that is being cached.
 //!
-//! The cache key for **materialized pages** is  [`TenantShardId`], [`TimelineId`], [`Key`], and [`Lsn`].
-//! Use [`PageCache::memorize_materialized_page`] and [`PageCache::lookup_materialized_page`] for fill & access.
-//!
 //! The cache key for **immutable file** pages is [`FileId`] and a block number.
 //! Users of page cache that wish to page-cache an arbitrary (immutable!) on-disk file do the following:
 //! * Have a mechanism to deterministically associate the on-disk file with a [`FileId`].
@@ -82,13 +78,10 @@ use std::{

 use anyhow::Context;
 use once_cell::sync::OnceCell;
-use pageserver_api::shard::TenantShardId;
-use utils::{id::TimelineId, lsn::Lsn};

 use crate::{
    context::RequestContext,
    metrics::{page_cache_eviction_metrics, PageCacheSizeMetrics},
-    repository::Key,
 };

 static PAGE_CACHE: OnceCell<PageCache> = OnceCell::new();
@@ -139,33 +132,7 @@ pub fn next_file_id() -> FileId {
 #[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Clone)]
 #[allow(clippy::enum_variant_names)]
 enum CacheKey {
-    MaterializedPage {
-        hash_key: MaterializedPageHashKey,
-        lsn: Lsn,
-    },
-    ImmutableFilePage {
-        file_id: FileId,
-        blkno: u32,
-    },
-}
-
-#[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Hash, Clone)]
-struct MaterializedPageHashKey {
-    /// Why is this TenantShardId rather than TenantId?
-    ///
-    /// Usually, the materialized value of a page@lsn is identical on any shard in the same tenant.  However, this
-    /// this not the case for certain internally-generated pages (e.g. relation sizes).  In future, we may make this
-    /// key smaller by omitting the shard, if we ensure that reads to such pages always skip the cache, or are
-    /// special-cased in some other way.
-    tenant_shard_id: TenantShardId,
-    timeline_id: TimelineId,
-    key: Key,
-}
-
-#[derive(Clone)]
-struct Version {
-    lsn: Lsn,
-    slot_idx: usize,
+    ImmutableFilePage { file_id: FileId, blkno: u32 },
 }

 struct Slot {
@@ -236,17 +203,6 @@ impl SlotInner {
 }

 pub struct PageCache {
-    /// This contains the mapping from the cache key to buffer slot that currently
-    /// contains the page, if any.
-    ///
-    /// TODO: This is protected by a single lock. If that becomes a bottleneck,
-    /// this HashMap can be replaced with a more concurrent version, there are
-    /// plenty of such crates around.
-    ///
-    /// If you add support for caching different kinds of objects, each object kind
-    /// can have a separate mapping map, next to this field.
-    materialized_page_map: std::sync::RwLock<HashMap<MaterializedPageHashKey, Vec<Version>>>,
-
    immutable_page_map: std::sync::RwLock<HashMap<(FileId, u32), usize>>,

    /// The actual buffers with their metadata.
@@ -371,175 +327,14 @@ pub enum ReadBufResult<'a> {
 }

 impl PageCache {
-    //
-    // Section 1.1: Public interface functions for looking up and memorizing materialized page
-    // versions in the page cache
-    //
-
-    /// Look up a materialized page version.
-    ///
-    /// The 'lsn' is an upper bound, this will return the latest version of
-    /// the given block, but not newer than 'lsn'. Returns the actual LSN of the
-    /// returned page.
-    pub async fn lookup_materialized_page(
-        &self,
-        tenant_shard_id: TenantShardId,
-        timeline_id: TimelineId,
-        key: &Key,
-        lsn: Lsn,
-        ctx: &RequestContext,
-    ) -> Option<(Lsn, PageReadGuard)> {
-        let Ok(permit) = self.try_get_pinned_slot_permit().await else {
-            return None;
-        };
-
-        crate::metrics::PAGE_CACHE
-            .for_ctx(ctx)
-            .read_accesses_materialized_page
-            .inc();
-
-        let mut cache_key = CacheKey::MaterializedPage {
-            hash_key: MaterializedPageHashKey {
-                tenant_shard_id,
-                timeline_id,
-                key: *key,
-            },
-            lsn,
-        };
-
-        if let Some(guard) = self
-            .try_lock_for_read(&mut cache_key, &mut Some(permit))
-            .await
-        {
-            if let CacheKey::MaterializedPage {
-                hash_key: _,
-                lsn: available_lsn,
-            } = cache_key
-            {
-                if available_lsn == lsn {
-                    crate::metrics::PAGE_CACHE
-                        .for_ctx(ctx)
-                        .read_hits_materialized_page_exact
-                        .inc();
-                } else {
-                    crate::metrics::PAGE_CACHE
-                        .for_ctx(ctx)
-                        .read_hits_materialized_page_older_lsn
-                        .inc();
-                }
-                Some((available_lsn, guard))
-            } else {
-                panic!("unexpected key type in slot");
-            }
-        } else {
-            None
-        }
-    }
-
-    ///
-    /// Store an image of the given page in the cache.
-    ///
-    pub async fn memorize_materialized_page(
-        &self,
-        tenant_shard_id: TenantShardId,
-        timeline_id: TimelineId,
-        key: Key,
-        lsn: Lsn,
-        img: &[u8],
-    ) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
-        let cache_key = CacheKey::MaterializedPage {
-            hash_key: MaterializedPageHashKey {
-                tenant_shard_id,
-                timeline_id,
-                key,
-            },
-            lsn,
-        };
-
-        let mut permit = Some(self.try_get_pinned_slot_permit().await?);
-        loop {
-            // First check if the key already exists in the cache.
-            if let Some(slot_idx) = self.search_mapping_exact(&cache_key) {
-                // The page was found in the mapping. Lock the slot, and re-check
-                // that it's still what we expected (because we don't released the mapping
-                // lock already, another thread could have evicted the page)
-                let slot = &self.slots[slot_idx];
-                let inner = slot.inner.write().await;
-                if inner.key.as_ref() == Some(&cache_key) {
-                    slot.inc_usage_count();
-                    debug_assert!(
-                        {
-                            let guard = inner.permit.lock().unwrap();
-                            guard.upgrade().is_none()
-                        },
-                        "we hold a write lock, so, no one else should have a permit"
-                    );
-                    debug_assert_eq!(inner.buf.len(), img.len());
-                    // We already had it in cache. Another thread must've put it there
-                    // concurrently. Check that it had the same contents that we
-                    // replayed.
-                    assert!(inner.buf == img);
-                    return Ok(());
-                }
-            }
-            debug_assert!(permit.is_some());
-
-            // Not found. Find a victim buffer
-            let (slot_idx, mut inner) = self
-                .find_victim(permit.as_ref().unwrap())
-                .await
-                .context("Failed to find evict victim")?;
-
-            // Insert mapping for this. At this point, we may find that another
-            // thread did the same thing concurrently. In that case, we evicted
-            // our victim buffer unnecessarily. Put it into the free list and
-            // continue with the slot that the other thread chose.
-            if let Some(_existing_slot_idx) = self.try_insert_mapping(&cache_key, slot_idx) {
-                // TODO: put to free list
-
-                // We now just loop back to start from beginning. This is not
-                // optimal, we'll perform the lookup in the mapping again, which
-                // is not really necessary because we already got
-                // 'existing_slot_idx'.  But this shouldn't happen often enough
-                // to matter much.
-                continue;
-            }
-
-            // Make the slot ready
-            let slot = &self.slots[slot_idx];
-            inner.key = Some(cache_key.clone());
-            slot.set_usage_count(1);
-            // Create a write guard for the slot so we go through the expected motions.
-            debug_assert!(
-                {
-                    let guard = inner.permit.lock().unwrap();
-                    guard.upgrade().is_none()
-                },
-                "we hold a write lock, so, no one else should have a permit"
-            );
-            let mut write_guard = PageWriteGuard {
-                state: PageWriteGuardState::Invalid {
-                    _permit: permit.take().unwrap(),
-                    inner,
-                },
-            };
-            write_guard.copy_from_slice(img);
-            let _ = write_guard.mark_valid();
-            return Ok(());
-        }
-    }
-
-    // Section 1.2: Public interface functions for working with immutable file pages.
-
    pub async fn read_immutable_buf(
        &self,
        file_id: FileId,
        blkno: u32,
        ctx: &RequestContext,
    ) -> anyhow::Result<ReadBufResult> {
-        let mut cache_key = CacheKey::ImmutableFilePage { file_id, blkno };
-
-        self.lock_for_read(&mut cache_key, ctx).await
+        self.lock_for_read(&(CacheKey::ImmutableFilePage { file_id, blkno }), ctx)
+            .await
    }

    //
@@ -573,19 +368,11 @@ impl PageCache {

    /// Look up a page in the cache.
    ///
-    /// If the search criteria is not exact, *cache_key is updated with the key
-    /// for exact key of the returned page. (For materialized pages, that means
-    /// that the LSN in 'cache_key' is updated with the LSN of the returned page
-    /// version.)
-    ///
-    /// If no page is found, returns None and *cache_key is left unmodified.
-    ///
    async fn try_lock_for_read(
        &self,
-        cache_key: &mut CacheKey,
+        cache_key: &CacheKey,
        permit: &mut Option<PinnedSlotsPermit>,
    ) -> Option<PageReadGuard> {
-        let cache_key_orig = cache_key.clone();
        if let Some(slot_idx) = self.search_mapping(cache_key) {
            // The page was found in the mapping. Lock the slot, and re-check
            // that it's still what we expected (because we released the mapping
@@ -598,9 +385,6 @@ impl PageCache {
                    _permit: inner.coalesce_readers_permit(permit.take().unwrap()),
                    slot_guard: inner,
                });
-            } else {
-                // search_mapping might have modified the search key; restore it.
-                *cache_key = cache_key_orig;
            }
        }
        None
@@ -637,15 +421,12 @@ impl PageCache {
    ///
    async fn lock_for_read(
        &self,
-        cache_key: &mut CacheKey,
+        cache_key: &CacheKey,
        ctx: &RequestContext,
    ) -> anyhow::Result<ReadBufResult> {
        let mut permit = Some(self.try_get_pinned_slot_permit().await?);

        let (read_access, hit) = match cache_key {
-            CacheKey::MaterializedPage { .. } => {
-                unreachable!("Materialized pages use lookup_materialized_page")
-            }
            CacheKey::ImmutableFilePage { .. } => (
                &crate::metrics::PAGE_CACHE
                    .for_ctx(ctx)
@@ -717,52 +498,15 @@ impl PageCache {

    /// Search for a page in the cache using the given search key.
    ///
-    /// Returns the slot index, if any. If the search criteria is not exact,
-    /// *cache_key is updated with the actual key of the found page.
+    /// Returns the slot index, if any.
    ///
    /// NOTE: We don't hold any lock on the mapping on return, so the slot might
    /// get recycled for an unrelated page immediately after this function
    /// returns.  The caller is responsible for re-checking that the slot still
    /// contains the page with the same key before using it.
    ///
-    fn search_mapping(&self, cache_key: &mut CacheKey) -> Option<usize> {
+    fn search_mapping(&self, cache_key: &CacheKey) -> Option<usize> {
        match cache_key {
-            CacheKey::MaterializedPage { hash_key, lsn } => {
-                let map = self.materialized_page_map.read().unwrap();
-                let versions = map.get(hash_key)?;
-
-                let version_idx = match versions.binary_search_by_key(lsn, |v| v.lsn) {
-                    Ok(version_idx) => version_idx,
-                    Err(0) => return None,
-                    Err(version_idx) => version_idx - 1,
-                };
-                let version = &versions[version_idx];
-                *lsn = version.lsn;
-                Some(version.slot_idx)
-            }
-            CacheKey::ImmutableFilePage { file_id, blkno } => {
-                let map = self.immutable_page_map.read().unwrap();
-                Some(*map.get(&(*file_id, *blkno))?)
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    /// Search for a page in the cache using the given search key.
-    ///
-    /// Like 'search_mapping, but performs an "exact" search. Used for
-    /// allocating a new buffer.
-    fn search_mapping_exact(&self, key: &CacheKey) -> Option<usize> {
-        match key {
-            CacheKey::MaterializedPage { hash_key, lsn } => {
-                let map = self.materialized_page_map.read().unwrap();
-                let versions = map.get(hash_key)?;
-
-                if let Ok(version_idx) = versions.binary_search_by_key(lsn, |v| v.lsn) {
-                    Some(versions[version_idx].slot_idx)
-                } else {
-                    None
-                }
-            }
            CacheKey::ImmutableFilePage { file_id, blkno } => {
                let map = self.immutable_page_map.read().unwrap();
                Some(*map.get(&(*file_id, *blkno))?)
@@ -775,27 +519,6 @@ impl PageCache {
    ///
    fn remove_mapping(&self, old_key: &CacheKey) {
        match old_key {
-            CacheKey::MaterializedPage {
-                hash_key: old_hash_key,
-                lsn: old_lsn,
-            } => {
-                let mut map = self.materialized_page_map.write().unwrap();
-                if let Entry::Occupied(mut old_entry) = map.entry(old_hash_key.clone()) {
-                    let versions = old_entry.get_mut();
-
-                    if let Ok(version_idx) = versions.binary_search_by_key(old_lsn, |v| v.lsn) {
-                        versions.remove(version_idx);
-                        self.size_metrics
-                            .current_bytes_materialized_page
-                            .sub_page_sz(1);
-                        if versions.is_empty() {
-                            old_entry.remove_entry();
-                        }
-                    }
-                } else {
-                    panic!("could not find old key in mapping")
-                }
-            }
            CacheKey::ImmutableFilePage { file_id, blkno } => {
                let mut map = self.immutable_page_map.write().unwrap();
                map.remove(&(*file_id, *blkno))
@@ -812,30 +535,6 @@ impl PageCache {
    /// of the existing mapping and leaves it untouched.
    fn try_insert_mapping(&self, new_key: &CacheKey, slot_idx: usize) -> Option<usize> {
        match new_key {
-            CacheKey::MaterializedPage {
-                hash_key: new_key,
-                lsn: new_lsn,
-            } => {
-                let mut map = self.materialized_page_map.write().unwrap();
-                let versions = map.entry(new_key.clone()).or_default();
-                match versions.binary_search_by_key(new_lsn, |v| v.lsn) {
-                    Ok(version_idx) => Some(versions[version_idx].slot_idx),
-                    Err(version_idx) => {
-                        versions.insert(
-                            version_idx,
-                            Version {
-                                lsn: *new_lsn,
-                                slot_idx,
-                            },
-                        );
-                        self.size_metrics
-                            .current_bytes_materialized_page
-                            .add_page_sz(1);
-                        None
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-
            CacheKey::ImmutableFilePage { file_id, blkno } => {
                let mut map = self.immutable_page_map.write().unwrap();
                match map.entry((*file_id, *blkno)) {
@@ -949,7 +648,6 @@ impl PageCache {
        let size_metrics = &crate::metrics::PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
        size_metrics.max_bytes.set_page_sz(num_pages);
        size_metrics.current_bytes_immutable.set_page_sz(0);
-        size_metrics.current_bytes_materialized_page.set_page_sz(0);

        let slots = page_buffer
            .chunks_exact_mut(PAGE_SZ)
@@ -968,7 +666,6 @@ impl PageCache {
            .collect();

        Self {
-            materialized_page_map: Default::default(),
            immutable_page_map: Default::default(),
            slots,
            next_evict_slot: AtomicUsize::new(0),
--- a/pageserver/src/page_service.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/page_service.rs
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ use crate::basebackup::BasebackupError;
 use crate::context::{DownloadBehavior, RequestContext};
 use crate::import_datadir::import_wal_from_tar;
 use crate::metrics;
-use crate::metrics::LIVE_CONNECTIONS_COUNT;
+use crate::metrics::{ComputeCommandKind, COMPUTE_COMMANDS_COUNTERS, LIVE_CONNECTIONS_COUNT};
 use crate::pgdatadir_mapping::Version;
 use crate::span::debug_assert_current_span_has_tenant_and_timeline_id;
 use crate::span::debug_assert_current_span_has_tenant_and_timeline_id_no_shard_id;
@@ -317,6 +317,9 @@ struct PageServerHandler {
    /// to see is the number of shards divided by the number of pageservers (typically < 2),
    /// or the ratio used when splitting shards (i.e. how many children created from one)
    /// parent shard, where a "large" number might be ~8.
+    ///
+    /// Hmm, we never remove timelines from this map, even not on remove_tenant_from_memory.
+    /// Shouldn't matter though.
    shard_timelines: HashMap<ShardIndex, HandlerTimeline>,
 }

@@ -585,7 +588,7 @@ impl PageServerHandler {
            let msg = tokio::select! {
                biased;

-                _ = self.await_connection_cancelled() => {
+                _ = self.await_connection_cancelled() => { // we're sensitive here, and we see prompt sensitivy in the logs
                    // We were requested to shut down.
                    info!("shutdown request received in page handler");
                    return Err(QueryError::Shutdown)
@@ -935,7 +938,7 @@ impl PageServerHandler {
        let timeline = self
            .get_active_tenant_timeline(tenant_shard_id.tenant_id, timeline_id, shard_selector)
            .await?;
-        let lease = timeline.make_lsn_lease(lsn, ctx)?;
+        let lease = timeline.make_lsn_lease(lsn, timeline.get_lsn_lease_length(), ctx)?;
        let valid_until = lease
            .valid_until
            .duration_since(SystemTime::UNIX_EPOCH)
@@ -1176,6 +1179,7 @@ impl PageServerHandler {
        ctx: &RequestContext,
    ) -> Result<PagestreamBeMessage, PageStreamError> {
        let timeline = match self.get_cached_timeline_for_page(req) {
+            // on cache hit, we don't check if timeline is active
            Ok(tl) => {
                set_tracing_field_shard_id(tl);
                tl
@@ -1210,6 +1214,7 @@ impl PageServerHandler {

        let latest_gc_cutoff_lsn = timeline.get_latest_gc_cutoff_lsn();
        let lsn = Self::wait_or_get_last_lsn(
+            // if `timeline` is not active, but not_modified_since is < last_record_lsn, this doesn't wait
            timeline,
            req.request_lsn,
            req.not_modified_since,
@@ -1219,6 +1224,7 @@ impl PageServerHandler {
        .await?;

        let page = timeline
+            // but if tl is cancelled, then we'd quickly return from here
            .get_rel_page_at_lsn(req.rel, req.blkno, Version::Lsn(lsn), ctx)
            .await?;

@@ -1554,6 +1560,10 @@ where

            self.check_permission(Some(tenant_id))?;

+            COMPUTE_COMMANDS_COUNTERS
+                .for_command(ComputeCommandKind::PageStreamV2)
+                .inc();
+
            self.handle_pagerequests(
                pgb,
                tenant_id,
@@ -1579,6 +1589,10 @@ where

            self.check_permission(Some(tenant_id))?;

+            COMPUTE_COMMANDS_COUNTERS
+                .for_command(ComputeCommandKind::PageStream)
+                .inc();
+
            self.handle_pagerequests(
                pgb,
                tenant_id,
@@ -1605,6 +1619,10 @@ where

            self.check_permission(Some(tenant_id))?;

+            COMPUTE_COMMANDS_COUNTERS
+                .for_command(ComputeCommandKind::Basebackup)
+                .inc();
+
            let lsn = if let Some(lsn_str) = params.get(2) {
                Some(
                    Lsn::from_str(lsn_str)
@@ -1662,6 +1680,11 @@ where
                .record("timeline_id", field::display(timeline_id));

            self.check_permission(Some(tenant_id))?;
+
+            COMPUTE_COMMANDS_COUNTERS
+                .for_command(ComputeCommandKind::GetLastRecordRlsn)
+                .inc();
+
            async {
                let timeline = self
                    .get_active_tenant_timeline(tenant_id, timeline_id, ShardSelector::Zero)
@@ -1723,6 +1746,10 @@ where

            self.check_permission(Some(tenant_id))?;

+            COMPUTE_COMMANDS_COUNTERS
+                .for_command(ComputeCommandKind::Fullbackup)
+                .inc();
+
            // Check that the timeline exists
            self.handle_basebackup_request(
                pgb,
@@ -1771,6 +1798,10 @@ where

            self.check_permission(Some(tenant_id))?;

+            COMPUTE_COMMANDS_COUNTERS
+                .for_command(ComputeCommandKind::ImportBasebackup)
+                .inc();
+
            match self
                .handle_import_basebackup(
                    pgb,
@@ -1818,6 +1849,10 @@ where

            self.check_permission(Some(tenant_id))?;

+            COMPUTE_COMMANDS_COUNTERS
+                .for_command(ComputeCommandKind::ImportWal)
+                .inc();
+
            match self
                .handle_import_wal(pgb, tenant_id, timeline_id, start_lsn, end_lsn, ctx)
                .await
@@ -1855,6 +1890,10 @@ where

            self.check_permission(Some(tenant_shard_id.tenant_id))?;

+            COMPUTE_COMMANDS_COUNTERS
+                .for_command(ComputeCommandKind::LeaseLsn)
+                .inc();
+
            // The caller is responsible for providing correct lsn.
            let lsn = Lsn::from_str(params[2])
                .with_context(|| format!("Failed to parse Lsn from {}", params[2]))?;
@@ -1886,6 +1925,10 @@ where

            self.check_permission(Some(tenant_id))?;

+            COMPUTE_COMMANDS_COUNTERS
+                .for_command(ComputeCommandKind::Show)
+                .inc();
+
            let tenant = self
                .get_active_tenant_with_timeout(
                    tenant_id,
--- a/pageserver/src/pgdatadir_mapping.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/pgdatadir_mapping.rs
@@ -919,6 +919,14 @@ impl Timeline {
            result.add_key(AUX_FILES_KEY);
        }

+        #[cfg(test)]
+        {
+            let guard = self.extra_test_dense_keyspace.load();
+            for kr in &guard.ranges {
+                result.add_range(kr.clone());
+            }
+        }
+
        Ok((
            result.to_keyspace(),
            /* AUX sparse key space */
--- a/pageserver/src/repository.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/repository.rs
@@ -240,6 +240,7 @@ pub struct GcResult {
    pub layers_needed_by_cutoff: u64,
    pub layers_needed_by_pitr: u64,
    pub layers_needed_by_branches: u64,
+    pub layers_needed_by_leases: u64,
    pub layers_not_updated: u64,
    pub layers_removed: u64, // # of layer files removed because they have been made obsolete by newer ondisk files.

@@ -269,6 +270,7 @@ impl AddAssign for GcResult {
        self.layers_needed_by_pitr += other.layers_needed_by_pitr;
        self.layers_needed_by_cutoff += other.layers_needed_by_cutoff;
        self.layers_needed_by_branches += other.layers_needed_by_branches;
+        self.layers_needed_by_leases += other.layers_needed_by_leases;
        self.layers_not_updated += other.layers_not_updated;
        self.layers_removed += other.layers_removed;

--- a/pageserver/src/tenant.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant.rs
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/block_io.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/block_io.rs
@@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ impl<'a> BlockCursor<'a> {
 ///
 /// The file is assumed to be immutable. This doesn't provide any functions
 /// for modifying the file, nor for invalidating the cache if it is modified.
+#[derive(Clone)]
 pub struct FileBlockReader<'a> {
    pub file: &'a VirtualFile,

--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/config.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/config.rs
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ use pageserver_api::models::AuxFilePolicy;
 use pageserver_api::models::CompactionAlgorithm;
 use pageserver_api::models::CompactionAlgorithmSettings;
 use pageserver_api::models::EvictionPolicy;
+use pageserver_api::models::LsnLease;
 use pageserver_api::models::{self, ThrottleConfig};
 use pageserver_api::shard::{ShardCount, ShardIdentity, ShardNumber, ShardStripeSize};
 use serde::de::IntoDeserializer;
@@ -280,22 +281,6 @@ impl LocationConf {
    }
 }

-impl Default for LocationConf {
-    // TODO: this should be removed once tenant loading can guarantee that we are never
-    // loading from a directory without a configuration.
-    // => tech debt since https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/1555
-    fn default() -> Self {
-        Self {
-            mode: LocationMode::Attached(AttachedLocationConfig {
-                generation: Generation::none(),
-                attach_mode: AttachmentMode::Single,
-            }),
-            tenant_conf: TenantConfOpt::default(),
-            shard: ShardIdentity::unsharded(),
-        }
-    }
-}
-
 /// A tenant's calcuated configuration, which is the result of merging a
 /// tenant's TenantConfOpt with the global TenantConf from PageServerConf.
 ///
@@ -377,6 +362,16 @@ pub struct TenantConf {
    /// There is a `last_aux_file_policy` flag which gets persisted in `index_part.json` once the first aux
    /// file is written.
    pub switch_aux_file_policy: AuxFilePolicy,
+
+    /// The length for an explicit LSN lease request.
+    /// Layers needed to reconstruct pages at LSN will not be GC-ed during this interval.
+    #[serde(with = "humantime_serde")]
+    pub lsn_lease_length: Duration,
+
+    /// The length for an implicit LSN lease granted as part of `get_lsn_by_timestamp` request.
+    /// Layers needed to reconstruct pages at LSN will not be GC-ed during this interval.
+    #[serde(with = "humantime_serde")]
+    pub lsn_lease_length_for_ts: Duration,
 }

 /// Same as TenantConf, but this struct preserves the information about
@@ -476,6 +471,16 @@ pub struct TenantConfOpt {
    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
    #[serde(default)]
    pub switch_aux_file_policy: Option<AuxFilePolicy>,
+
+    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    #[serde(with = "humantime_serde")]
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub lsn_lease_length: Option<Duration>,
+
+    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    #[serde(with = "humantime_serde")]
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub lsn_lease_length_for_ts: Option<Duration>,
 }

 impl TenantConfOpt {
@@ -538,6 +543,12 @@ impl TenantConfOpt {
            switch_aux_file_policy: self
                .switch_aux_file_policy
                .unwrap_or(global_conf.switch_aux_file_policy),
+            lsn_lease_length: self
+                .lsn_lease_length
+                .unwrap_or(global_conf.lsn_lease_length),
+            lsn_lease_length_for_ts: self
+                .lsn_lease_length_for_ts
+                .unwrap_or(global_conf.lsn_lease_length_for_ts),
        }
    }
 }
@@ -582,6 +593,8 @@ impl Default for TenantConf {
            timeline_get_throttle: crate::tenant::throttle::Config::disabled(),
            image_layer_creation_check_threshold: DEFAULT_IMAGE_LAYER_CREATION_CHECK_THRESHOLD,
            switch_aux_file_policy: AuxFilePolicy::default_tenant_config(),
+            lsn_lease_length: LsnLease::DEFAULT_LENGTH,
+            lsn_lease_length_for_ts: LsnLease::DEFAULT_LENGTH_FOR_TS,
        }
    }
 }
@@ -657,6 +670,8 @@ impl From<TenantConfOpt> for models::TenantConfig {
            timeline_get_throttle: value.timeline_get_throttle.map(ThrottleConfig::from),
            image_layer_creation_check_threshold: value.image_layer_creation_check_threshold,
            switch_aux_file_policy: value.switch_aux_file_policy,
+            lsn_lease_length: value.lsn_lease_length.map(humantime),
+            lsn_lease_length_for_ts: value.lsn_lease_length_for_ts.map(humantime),
        }
    }
 }
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/delete.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/delete.rs
@@ -1,662 +0,0 @@
-use std::sync::Arc;
-
-use anyhow::Context;
-use camino::{Utf8Path, Utf8PathBuf};
-use pageserver_api::{models::TenantState, shard::TenantShardId};
-use remote_storage::{GenericRemoteStorage, RemotePath, TimeoutOrCancel};
-use tokio::sync::OwnedMutexGuard;
-use tokio_util::sync::CancellationToken;
-use tracing::{error, instrument, Instrument};
-
-use utils::{backoff, completion, crashsafe, fs_ext, id::TimelineId, pausable_failpoint};
-
-use crate::{
-    config::PageServerConf,
-    context::RequestContext,
-    task_mgr::{self, TaskKind},
-    tenant::{
-        mgr::{TenantSlot, TenantsMapRemoveResult},
-        remote_timeline_client::remote_heatmap_path,
-        timeline::ShutdownMode,
-    },
-};
-
-use super::{
-    mgr::{GetTenantError, TenantSlotError, TenantSlotUpsertError, TenantsMap},
-    remote_timeline_client::{FAILED_REMOTE_OP_RETRIES, FAILED_UPLOAD_WARN_THRESHOLD},
-    span,
-    timeline::delete::DeleteTimelineFlow,
-    tree_sort_timelines, DeleteTimelineError, Tenant, TenantPreload,
-};
-
-#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
-pub(crate) enum DeleteTenantError {
-    #[error("GetTenant {0}")]
-    Get(#[from] GetTenantError),
-
-    #[error("Tenant not attached")]
-    NotAttached,
-
-    #[error("Invalid state {0}. Expected Active or Broken")]
-    InvalidState(TenantState),
-
-    #[error("Tenant deletion is already in progress")]
-    AlreadyInProgress,
-
-    #[error("Tenant map slot error {0}")]
-    SlotError(#[from] TenantSlotError),
-
-    #[error("Tenant map slot upsert error {0}")]
-    SlotUpsertError(#[from] TenantSlotUpsertError),
-
-    #[error("Timeline {0}")]
-    Timeline(#[from] DeleteTimelineError),
-
-    #[error("Cancelled")]
-    Cancelled,
-
-    #[error(transparent)]
-    Other(#[from] anyhow::Error),
-}
-
-type DeletionGuard = tokio::sync::OwnedMutexGuard<DeleteTenantFlow>;
-
-fn remote_tenant_delete_mark_path(
-    conf: &PageServerConf,
-    tenant_shard_id: &TenantShardId,
-) -> anyhow::Result<RemotePath> {
-    let tenant_remote_path = conf
-        .tenant_path(tenant_shard_id)
-        .strip_prefix(&conf.workdir)
-        .context("Failed to strip workdir prefix")
-        .and_then(RemotePath::new)
-        .context("tenant path")?;
-    Ok(tenant_remote_path.join(Utf8Path::new("timelines/deleted")))
-}
-
-async fn create_remote_delete_mark(
-    conf: &PageServerConf,
-    remote_storage: &GenericRemoteStorage,
-    tenant_shard_id: &TenantShardId,
-    cancel: &CancellationToken,
-) -> Result<(), DeleteTenantError> {
-    let remote_mark_path = remote_tenant_delete_mark_path(conf, tenant_shard_id)?;
-
-    let data: &[u8] = &[];
-    backoff::retry(
-        || async {
-            let data = bytes::Bytes::from_static(data);
-            let stream = futures::stream::once(futures::future::ready(Ok(data)));
-            remote_storage
-                .upload(stream, 0, &remote_mark_path, None, cancel)
-                .await
-        },
-        TimeoutOrCancel::caused_by_cancel,
-        FAILED_UPLOAD_WARN_THRESHOLD,
-        FAILED_REMOTE_OP_RETRIES,
-        "mark_upload",
-        cancel,
-    )
-    .await
-    .ok_or_else(|| anyhow::Error::new(TimeoutOrCancel::Cancel))
-    .and_then(|x| x)
-    .context("mark_upload")?;
-
-    Ok(())
-}
-
-async fn create_local_delete_mark(
-    conf: &PageServerConf,
-    tenant_shard_id: &TenantShardId,
-) -> Result<(), DeleteTenantError> {
-    let marker_path = conf.tenant_deleted_mark_file_path(tenant_shard_id);
-
-    // Note: we're ok to replace existing file.
-    let _ = std::fs::OpenOptions::new()
-        .write(true)
-        .create(true)
-        .truncate(true)
-        .open(&marker_path)
-        .with_context(|| format!("could not create delete marker file {marker_path:?}"))?;
-
-    crashsafe::fsync_file_and_parent(&marker_path).context("sync_mark")?;
-
-    Ok(())
-}
-
-async fn schedule_ordered_timeline_deletions(
-    tenant: &Arc<Tenant>,
-) -> Result<Vec<(Arc<tokio::sync::Mutex<DeleteTimelineFlow>>, TimelineId)>, DeleteTenantError> {
-    // Tenant is stopping at this point. We know it will be deleted.
-    // No new timelines should be created.
-    // Tree sort timelines to delete from leafs to the root.
-    // NOTE: by calling clone we release the mutex which creates a possibility for a race: pending deletion
-    // can complete and remove timeline from the map in between our call to clone
-    // and `DeleteTimelineFlow::run`, so `run` wont find timeline in `timelines` map.
-    // timelines.lock is currently synchronous so we cant hold it across await point.
-    // So just ignore NotFound error if we get it from `run`.
-    // Beware: in case it becomes async and we try to hold it here, `run` also locks it, which can create a deadlock.
-    let timelines = tenant.timelines.lock().unwrap().clone();
-    let sorted =
-        tree_sort_timelines(timelines, |t| t.get_ancestor_timeline_id()).context("tree sort")?;
-
-    let mut already_running_deletions = vec![];
-
-    for (timeline_id, _) in sorted.into_iter().rev() {
-        let span = tracing::info_span!("timeline_delete", %timeline_id);
-        let res = DeleteTimelineFlow::run(tenant, timeline_id, true)
-            .instrument(span)
-            .await;
-        if let Err(e) = res {
-            match e {
-                DeleteTimelineError::NotFound => {
-                    // Timeline deletion finished after call to clone above but before call
-                    // to `DeleteTimelineFlow::run` and removed timeline from the map.
-                    continue;
-                }
-                DeleteTimelineError::AlreadyInProgress(guard) => {
-                    already_running_deletions.push((guard, timeline_id));
-                    continue;
-                }
-                e => return Err(DeleteTenantError::Timeline(e)),
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    Ok(already_running_deletions)
-}
-
-async fn ensure_timelines_dir_empty(timelines_path: &Utf8Path) -> Result<(), DeleteTenantError> {
-    // Assert timelines dir is empty.
-    if !fs_ext::is_directory_empty(timelines_path).await? {
-        // Display first 10 items in directory
-        let list = fs_ext::list_dir(timelines_path).await.context("list_dir")?;
-        let list = &list.into_iter().take(10).collect::<Vec<_>>();
-        return Err(DeleteTenantError::Other(anyhow::anyhow!(
-            "Timelines directory is not empty after all timelines deletion: {list:?}"
-        )));
-    }
-
-    Ok(())
-}
-
-async fn remove_tenant_remote_delete_mark(
-    conf: &PageServerConf,
-    remote_storage: &GenericRemoteStorage,
-    tenant_shard_id: &TenantShardId,
-    cancel: &CancellationToken,
-) -> Result<(), DeleteTenantError> {
-    let path = remote_tenant_delete_mark_path(conf, tenant_shard_id)?;
-    backoff::retry(
-        || async { remote_storage.delete(&path, cancel).await },
-        TimeoutOrCancel::caused_by_cancel,
-        FAILED_UPLOAD_WARN_THRESHOLD,
-        FAILED_REMOTE_OP_RETRIES,
-        "remove_tenant_remote_delete_mark",
-        cancel,
-    )
-    .await
-    .ok_or_else(|| anyhow::Error::new(TimeoutOrCancel::Cancel))
-    .and_then(|x| x)
-    .context("remove_tenant_remote_delete_mark")?;
-    Ok(())
-}
-
-// Cleanup fs traces: tenant config, timelines dir local delete mark, tenant dir
-async fn cleanup_remaining_fs_traces(
-    conf: &PageServerConf,
-    tenant_shard_id: &TenantShardId,
-) -> Result<(), DeleteTenantError> {
-    let rm = |p: Utf8PathBuf, is_dir: bool| async move {
-        if is_dir {
-            tokio::fs::remove_dir(&p).await
-        } else {
-            tokio::fs::remove_file(&p).await
-        }
-        .or_else(fs_ext::ignore_not_found)
-        .with_context(|| format!("failed to delete {p}"))
-    };
-
-    rm(conf.tenant_config_path(tenant_shard_id), false).await?;
-    rm(conf.tenant_location_config_path(tenant_shard_id), false).await?;
-
-    fail::fail_point!("tenant-delete-before-remove-timelines-dir", |_| {
-        Err(anyhow::anyhow!(
-            "failpoint: tenant-delete-before-remove-timelines-dir"
-        ))?
-    });
-
-    rm(conf.timelines_path(tenant_shard_id), true).await?;
-
-    fail::fail_point!("tenant-delete-before-remove-deleted-mark", |_| {
-        Err(anyhow::anyhow!(
-            "failpoint: tenant-delete-before-remove-deleted-mark"
-        ))?
-    });
-
-    // Make sure previous deletions are ordered before mark removal.
-    // Otherwise there is no guarantee that they reach the disk before mark deletion.
-    // So its possible for mark to reach disk first and for other deletions
-    // to be reordered later and thus missed if a crash occurs.
-    // Note that we dont need to sync after mark file is removed
-    // because we can tolerate the case when mark file reappears on startup.
-    let tenant_path = &conf.tenant_path(tenant_shard_id);
-    if tenant_path.exists() {
-        crashsafe::fsync_async(&conf.tenant_path(tenant_shard_id))
-            .await
-            .context("fsync_pre_mark_remove")?;
-    }
-
-    rm(conf.tenant_deleted_mark_file_path(tenant_shard_id), false).await?;
-
-    rm(conf.tenant_heatmap_path(tenant_shard_id), false).await?;
-
-    fail::fail_point!("tenant-delete-before-remove-tenant-dir", |_| {
-        Err(anyhow::anyhow!(
-            "failpoint: tenant-delete-before-remove-tenant-dir"
-        ))?
-    });
-
-    rm(conf.tenant_path(tenant_shard_id), true).await?;
-
-    Ok(())
-}
-
-/// Orchestrates tenant shut down of all tasks, removes its in-memory structures,
-/// and deletes its data from both disk and s3.
-/// The sequence of steps:
-/// 1. Upload remote deletion mark.
-/// 2. Create local mark file.
-/// 3. Shutdown tasks
-/// 4. Run ordered timeline deletions
-/// 5. Wait for timeline deletion operations that were scheduled before tenant deletion was requested
-/// 6. Remove remote mark
-/// 7. Cleanup remaining fs traces, tenant dir, config, timelines dir, local delete mark
-/// It is resumable from any step in case a crash/restart occurs.
-/// There are two entrypoints to the process:
-/// 1. [`DeleteTenantFlow::run`] this is the main one called by a management api handler.
-/// 2. [`DeleteTenantFlow::resume_from_attach`] is called when deletion is resumed tenant is found to be deleted during attach process.
-///  Note the only other place that messes around timeline delete mark is the `Tenant::spawn_load` function.
-#[derive(Default)]
-pub enum DeleteTenantFlow {
-    #[default]
-    NotStarted,
-    InProgress,
-    Finished,
-}
-
-impl DeleteTenantFlow {
-    // These steps are run in the context of management api request handler.
-    // Long running steps are continued to run in the background.
-    // NB: If this fails half-way through, and is retried, the retry will go through
-    // all the same steps again. Make sure the code here is idempotent, and don't
-    // error out if some of the shutdown tasks have already been completed!
-    // NOTE: static needed for background part.
-    // We assume that calling code sets up the span with tenant_id.
-    #[instrument(skip_all)]
-    pub(crate) async fn run(
-        conf: &'static PageServerConf,
-        remote_storage: GenericRemoteStorage,
-        tenants: &'static std::sync::RwLock<TenantsMap>,
-        tenant: Arc<Tenant>,
-        cancel: &CancellationToken,
-    ) -> Result<(), DeleteTenantError> {
-        span::debug_assert_current_span_has_tenant_id();
-
-        pausable_failpoint!("tenant-delete-before-run");
-
-        let mut guard = Self::prepare(&tenant).await?;
-
-        if let Err(e) = Self::run_inner(&mut guard, conf, &remote_storage, &tenant, cancel).await {
-            tenant.set_broken(format!("{e:#}")).await;
-            return Err(e);
-        }
-
-        Self::schedule_background(guard, conf, remote_storage, tenants, tenant);
-
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    // Helper function needed to be able to match once on returned error and transition tenant into broken state.
-    // This is needed because tenant.shutwodn is not idempotent. If tenant state is set to stopping another call to tenant.shutdown
-    // will result in an error, but here we need to be able to retry shutdown when tenant deletion is retried.
-    // So the solution is to set tenant state to broken.
-    async fn run_inner(
-        guard: &mut OwnedMutexGuard<Self>,
-        conf: &'static PageServerConf,
-        remote_storage: &GenericRemoteStorage,
-        tenant: &Tenant,
-        cancel: &CancellationToken,
-    ) -> Result<(), DeleteTenantError> {
-        guard.mark_in_progress()?;
-
-        fail::fail_point!("tenant-delete-before-create-remote-mark", |_| {
-            Err(anyhow::anyhow!(
-                "failpoint: tenant-delete-before-create-remote-mark"
-            ))?
-        });
-
-        create_remote_delete_mark(conf, remote_storage, &tenant.tenant_shard_id, cancel)
-            .await
-            .context("remote_mark")?;
-
-        fail::fail_point!("tenant-delete-before-create-local-mark", |_| {
-            Err(anyhow::anyhow!(
-                "failpoint: tenant-delete-before-create-local-mark"
-            ))?
-        });
-
-        create_local_delete_mark(conf, &tenant.tenant_shard_id)
-            .await
-            .context("local delete mark")?;
-
-        fail::fail_point!("tenant-delete-before-background", |_| {
-            Err(anyhow::anyhow!(
-                "failpoint: tenant-delete-before-background"
-            ))?
-        });
-
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    fn mark_in_progress(&mut self) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
-        match self {
-            Self::Finished => anyhow::bail!("Bug. Is in finished state"),
-            Self::InProgress { .. } => { /* We're in a retry */ }
-            Self::NotStarted => { /* Fresh start */ }
-        }
-
-        *self = Self::InProgress;
-
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn should_resume_deletion(
-        conf: &'static PageServerConf,
-        remote_mark_exists: bool,
-        tenant: &Tenant,
-    ) -> Result<Option<DeletionGuard>, DeleteTenantError> {
-        let acquire = |t: &Tenant| {
-            Some(
-                Arc::clone(&t.delete_progress)
-                    .try_lock_owned()
-                    .expect("we're the only owner during init"),
-            )
-        };
-
-        if remote_mark_exists {
-            return Ok(acquire(tenant));
-        }
-
-        // Check local mark first, if its there there is no need to go to s3 to check whether remote one exists.
-        if conf
-            .tenant_deleted_mark_file_path(&tenant.tenant_shard_id)
-            .exists()
-        {
-            Ok(acquire(tenant))
-        } else {
-            Ok(None)
-        }
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) async fn resume_from_attach(
-        guard: DeletionGuard,
-        tenant: &Arc<Tenant>,
-        preload: Option<TenantPreload>,
-        tenants: &'static std::sync::RwLock<TenantsMap>,
-        ctx: &RequestContext,
-    ) -> Result<(), DeleteTenantError> {
-        let (_, progress) = completion::channel();
-
-        tenant
-            .set_stopping(progress, false, true)
-            .await
-            .expect("cant be stopping or broken");
-
-        tenant
-            .attach(preload, super::SpawnMode::Eager, ctx)
-            .await
-            .context("attach")?;
-
-        Self::background(
-            guard,
-            tenant.conf,
-            tenant.remote_storage.clone(),
-            tenants,
-            tenant,
-        )
-        .await
-    }
-
-    /// Check whether background deletion of this tenant is currently in progress
-    pub(crate) fn is_in_progress(tenant: &Tenant) -> bool {
-        tenant.delete_progress.try_lock().is_err()
-    }
-
-    async fn prepare(
-        tenant: &Arc<Tenant>,
-    ) -> Result<tokio::sync::OwnedMutexGuard<Self>, DeleteTenantError> {
-        // FIXME: unsure about active only. Our init jobs may not be cancellable properly,
-        // so at least for now allow deletions only for active tenants. TODO recheck
-        // Broken and Stopping is needed for retries.
-        if !matches!(
-            tenant.current_state(),
-            TenantState::Active | TenantState::Broken { .. }
-        ) {
-            return Err(DeleteTenantError::InvalidState(tenant.current_state()));
-        }
-
-        let guard = Arc::clone(&tenant.delete_progress)
-            .try_lock_owned()
-            .map_err(|_| DeleteTenantError::AlreadyInProgress)?;
-
-        fail::fail_point!("tenant-delete-before-shutdown", |_| {
-            Err(anyhow::anyhow!("failpoint: tenant-delete-before-shutdown"))?
-        });
-
-        // make pageserver shutdown not to wait for our completion
-        let (_, progress) = completion::channel();
-
-        // It would be good to only set stopping here and continue shutdown in the background, but shutdown is not idempotent.
-        // i e it is an error to do:
-        // tenant.set_stopping
-        // tenant.shutdown
-        // Its also bad that we're holding tenants.read here.
-        // TODO relax set_stopping to be idempotent?
-        if tenant.shutdown(progress, ShutdownMode::Hard).await.is_err() {
-            return Err(DeleteTenantError::Other(anyhow::anyhow!(
-                "tenant shutdown is already in progress"
-            )));
-        }
-
-        Ok(guard)
-    }
-
-    fn schedule_background(
-        guard: OwnedMutexGuard<Self>,
-        conf: &'static PageServerConf,
-        remote_storage: GenericRemoteStorage,
-        tenants: &'static std::sync::RwLock<TenantsMap>,
-        tenant: Arc<Tenant>,
-    ) {
-        let tenant_shard_id = tenant.tenant_shard_id;
-
-        task_mgr::spawn(
-            task_mgr::BACKGROUND_RUNTIME.handle(),
-            TaskKind::TimelineDeletionWorker,
-            Some(tenant_shard_id),
-            None,
-            "tenant_delete",
-            false,
-            async move {
-                if let Err(err) =
-                    Self::background(guard, conf, remote_storage, tenants, &tenant).await
-                {
-                    error!("Error: {err:#}");
-                    tenant.set_broken(format!("{err:#}")).await;
-                };
-                Ok(())
-            }
-            .instrument(tracing::info_span!(parent: None, "delete_tenant", tenant_id=%tenant_shard_id.tenant_id, shard_id=%tenant_shard_id.shard_slug())),
-        );
-    }
-
-    async fn background(
-        mut guard: OwnedMutexGuard<Self>,
-        conf: &PageServerConf,
-        remote_storage: GenericRemoteStorage,
-        tenants: &'static std::sync::RwLock<TenantsMap>,
-        tenant: &Arc<Tenant>,
-    ) -> Result<(), DeleteTenantError> {
-        // Tree sort timelines, schedule delete for them. Mention retries from the console side.
-        // Note that if deletion fails we dont mark timelines as broken,
-        // the whole tenant will become broken as by `Self::schedule_background` logic
-        let already_running_timeline_deletions = schedule_ordered_timeline_deletions(tenant)
-            .await
-            .context("schedule_ordered_timeline_deletions")?;
-
-        fail::fail_point!("tenant-delete-before-polling-ongoing-deletions", |_| {
-            Err(anyhow::anyhow!(
-                "failpoint: tenant-delete-before-polling-ongoing-deletions"
-            ))?
-        });
-
-        // Wait for deletions that were already running at the moment when tenant deletion was requested.
-        // When we can lock deletion guard it means that corresponding timeline deletion finished.
-        for (guard, timeline_id) in already_running_timeline_deletions {
-            let flow = guard.lock().await;
-            if !flow.is_finished() {
-                return Err(DeleteTenantError::Other(anyhow::anyhow!(
-                    "already running timeline deletion failed: {timeline_id}"
-                )));
-            }
-        }
-
-        // Remove top-level tenant objects that don't belong to a timeline, such as heatmap
-        let heatmap_path = remote_heatmap_path(&tenant.tenant_shard_id());
-        if let Some(Err(e)) = backoff::retry(
-            || async {
-                remote_storage
-                    .delete(&heatmap_path, &task_mgr::shutdown_token())
-                    .await
-            },
-            TimeoutOrCancel::caused_by_cancel,
-            FAILED_UPLOAD_WARN_THRESHOLD,
-            FAILED_REMOTE_OP_RETRIES,
-            "remove_remote_tenant_heatmap",
-            &task_mgr::shutdown_token(),
-        )
-        .await
-        {
-            tracing::warn!("Failed to delete heatmap at {heatmap_path}: {e}");
-        }
-
-        let timelines_path = conf.timelines_path(&tenant.tenant_shard_id);
-        // May not exist if we fail in cleanup_remaining_fs_traces after removing it
-        if timelines_path.exists() {
-            // sanity check to guard against layout changes
-            ensure_timelines_dir_empty(&timelines_path)
-                .await
-                .context("timelines dir not empty")?;
-        }
-
-        remove_tenant_remote_delete_mark(
-            conf,
-            &remote_storage,
-            &tenant.tenant_shard_id,
-            &task_mgr::shutdown_token(),
-        )
-        .await?;
-
-        pausable_failpoint!("tenant-delete-before-cleanup-remaining-fs-traces-pausable");
-        fail::fail_point!("tenant-delete-before-cleanup-remaining-fs-traces", |_| {
-            Err(anyhow::anyhow!(
-                "failpoint: tenant-delete-before-cleanup-remaining-fs-traces"
-            ))?
-        });
-
-        cleanup_remaining_fs_traces(conf, &tenant.tenant_shard_id)
-            .await
-            .context("cleanup_remaining_fs_traces")?;
-
-        {
-            pausable_failpoint!("tenant-delete-before-map-remove");
-
-            // This block is simply removing the TenantSlot for this tenant.  It requires a loop because
-            // we might conflict with a TenantSlot::InProgress marker and need to wait for it.
-            //
-            // This complexity will go away when we simplify how deletion works:
-            // https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/5080
-            loop {
-                // Under the TenantMap lock, try to remove the tenant.  We usually succeed, but if
-                // we encounter an InProgress marker, yield the barrier it contains and wait on it.
-                let barrier = {
-                    let mut locked = tenants.write().unwrap();
-                    let removed = locked.remove(tenant.tenant_shard_id);
-
-                    // FIXME: we should not be modifying this from outside of mgr.rs.
-                    // This will go away when we simplify deletion (https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/5080)
-
-                    // Update stats
-                    match &removed {
-                        TenantsMapRemoveResult::Occupied(slot) => {
-                            crate::metrics::TENANT_MANAGER.slot_removed(slot);
-                        }
-                        TenantsMapRemoveResult::InProgress(barrier) => {
-                            crate::metrics::TENANT_MANAGER
-                                .slot_removed(&TenantSlot::InProgress(barrier.clone()));
-                        }
-                        TenantsMapRemoveResult::Vacant => {
-                            // Nothing changed in map, no metric update
-                        }
-                    }
-
-                    match removed {
-                        TenantsMapRemoveResult::Occupied(TenantSlot::Attached(tenant)) => {
-                            match tenant.current_state() {
-                                TenantState::Stopping { .. } | TenantState::Broken { .. } => {
-                                    // Expected: we put the tenant into stopping state before we start deleting it
-                                }
-                                state => {
-                                    // Unexpected state
-                                    tracing::warn!(
-                                        "Tenant in unexpected state {state} after deletion"
-                                    );
-                                }
-                            }
-                            break;
-                        }
-                        TenantsMapRemoveResult::Occupied(TenantSlot::Secondary(_)) => {
-                            // This is unexpected: this secondary tenants should not have been created, and we
-                            // are not in a position to shut it down from here.
-                            tracing::warn!("Tenant transitioned to secondary mode while deleting!");
-                            break;
-                        }
-                        TenantsMapRemoveResult::Occupied(TenantSlot::InProgress(_)) => {
-                            unreachable!("TenantsMap::remove handles InProgress separately, should never return it here");
-                        }
-                        TenantsMapRemoveResult::Vacant => {
-                            tracing::warn!(
-                                "Tenant removed from TenantsMap before deletion completed"
-                            );
-                            break;
-                        }
-                        TenantsMapRemoveResult::InProgress(barrier) => {
-                            // An InProgress entry was found, we must wait on its barrier
-                            barrier
-                        }
-                    }
-                };
-
-                tracing::info!(
-                    "Waiting for competing operation to complete before deleting state for tenant"
-                );
-                barrier.wait().await;
-            }
-        }
-
-        *guard = Self::Finished;
-
-        Ok(())
-    }
-}
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/disk_btree.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/disk_btree.rs
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ use async_stream::try_stream;
 use byteorder::{ReadBytesExt, BE};
 use bytes::{BufMut, Bytes, BytesMut};
 use either::Either;
-use futures::Stream;
+use futures::{Stream, StreamExt};
 use hex;
 use std::{
    cmp::Ordering,
@@ -212,6 +212,7 @@ impl<'a, const L: usize> OnDiskNode<'a, L> {
 ///
 /// Public reader object, to search the tree.
 ///
+#[derive(Clone)]
 pub struct DiskBtreeReader<R, const L: usize>
 where
    R: BlockReader,
@@ -259,17 +260,38 @@ where
        Ok(result)
    }

+    pub fn iter<'a>(self, start_key: &'a [u8; L], ctx: &'a RequestContext) -> DiskBtreeIterator<'a>
+    where
+        R: 'a,
+    {
+        DiskBtreeIterator {
+            stream: Box::pin(self.into_stream(start_key, ctx)),
+        }
+    }
+
    /// Return a stream which yields all key, value pairs from the index
    /// starting from the first key greater or equal to `start_key`.
    ///
-    /// Note that this is a copy of [`Self::visit`].
+    /// Note 1: that this is a copy of [`Self::visit`].
    /// TODO: Once the sequential read path is removed this will become
    /// the only index traversal method.
-    pub fn get_stream_from<'a>(
-        &'a self,
+    ///
+    /// Note 2: this function used to take `&self` but it now consumes `self`. This is due to
+    /// the lifetime constraints of the reader and the stream / iterator it creates. Using `&self`
+    /// requires the reader to be present when the stream is used, and this creates a lifetime
+    /// dependency between the reader and the stream. Now if we want to create an iterator that
+    /// holds the stream, someone will need to keep a reference to the reader, which is inconvenient
+    /// to use from the image/delta layer APIs.
+    ///
+    /// Feel free to add the `&self` variant back if it's necessary.
+    pub fn into_stream<'a>(
+        self,
        start_key: &'a [u8; L],
        ctx: &'a RequestContext,
-    ) -> impl Stream<Item = std::result::Result<(Vec<u8>, u64), DiskBtreeError>> + 'a {
+    ) -> impl Stream<Item = std::result::Result<(Vec<u8>, u64), DiskBtreeError>> + 'a
+    where
+        R: 'a,
+    {
        try_stream! {
            let mut stack = Vec::new();
            stack.push((self.root_blk, None));
@@ -496,6 +518,19 @@ where
    }
 }

+pub struct DiskBtreeIterator<'a> {
+    #[allow(clippy::type_complexity)]
+    stream: std::pin::Pin<
+        Box<dyn Stream<Item = std::result::Result<(Vec<u8>, u64), DiskBtreeError>> + 'a>,
+    >,
+}
+
+impl<'a> DiskBtreeIterator<'a> {
+    pub async fn next(&mut self) -> Option<std::result::Result<(Vec<u8>, u64), DiskBtreeError>> {
+        self.stream.next().await
+    }
+}
+
 ///
 /// Public builder object, for creating a new tree.
 ///
@@ -1088,6 +1123,17 @@ pub(crate) mod tests {
                == all_data.get(&u128::MAX).cloned()
        );

+        // Test iterator and get_stream API
+        let mut iter = reader.iter(&[0; 16], &ctx);
+        let mut cnt = 0;
+        while let Some(res) = iter.next().await {
+            let (key, val) = res?;
+            let key = u128::from_be_bytes(key.as_slice().try_into().unwrap());
+            assert_eq!(val, *all_data.get(&key).unwrap());
+            cnt += 1;
+        }
+        assert_eq!(cnt, all_data.len());
+
        Ok(())
    }

--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/mgr.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/mgr.rs
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@

 use camino::{Utf8DirEntry, Utf8Path, Utf8PathBuf};
 use futures::StreamExt;
-use hyper::StatusCode;
 use itertools::Itertools;
 use pageserver_api::key::Key;
 use pageserver_api::models::LocationConfigMode;
@@ -27,8 +26,7 @@ use tokio::task::JoinSet;
 use tokio_util::sync::CancellationToken;
 use tracing::*;

-use remote_storage::GenericRemoteStorage;
-use utils::{completion, crashsafe};
+use utils::{backoff, completion, crashsafe};

 use crate::config::PageServerConf;
 use crate::context::{DownloadBehavior, RequestContext};
@@ -42,19 +40,17 @@ use crate::task_mgr::{self, TaskKind};
 use crate::tenant::config::{
    AttachedLocationConfig, AttachmentMode, LocationConf, LocationMode, SecondaryLocationConfig,
 };
-use crate::tenant::delete::DeleteTenantFlow;
 use crate::tenant::span::debug_assert_current_span_has_tenant_id;
 use crate::tenant::storage_layer::inmemory_layer;
 use crate::tenant::timeline::ShutdownMode;
 use crate::tenant::{AttachedTenantConf, GcError, SpawnMode, Tenant, TenantState};
-use crate::{InitializationOrder, IGNORED_TENANT_FILE_NAME, TEMP_FILE_SUFFIX};
+use crate::{InitializationOrder, TEMP_FILE_SUFFIX};

 use utils::crashsafe::path_with_suffix_extension;
 use utils::fs_ext::PathExt;
 use utils::generation::Generation;
 use utils::id::{TenantId, TimelineId};

-use super::delete::DeleteTenantError;
 use super::remote_timeline_client::remote_tenant_path;
 use super::secondary::SecondaryTenant;
 use super::timeline::detach_ancestor::PreparedTimelineDetach;
@@ -112,12 +108,6 @@ pub(crate) enum TenantsMap {
    ShuttingDown(BTreeMap<TenantShardId, TenantSlot>),
 }

-pub(crate) enum TenantsMapRemoveResult {
-    Occupied(TenantSlot),
-    Vacant,
-    InProgress(utils::completion::Barrier),
-}
-
 /// When resolving a TenantId to a shard, we may be looking for the 0th
 /// shard, or we might be looking for whichever shard holds a particular page.
 #[derive(Copy, Clone)]
@@ -194,26 +184,6 @@ impl TenantsMap {
        }
    }

-    /// Only for use from DeleteTenantFlow.  This method directly removes a TenantSlot from the map.
-    ///
-    /// The normal way to remove a tenant is using a SlotGuard, which will gracefully remove the guarded
-    /// slot if the enclosed tenant is shutdown.
-    pub(crate) fn remove(&mut self, tenant_shard_id: TenantShardId) -> TenantsMapRemoveResult {
-        use std::collections::btree_map::Entry;
-        match self {
-            TenantsMap::Initializing => TenantsMapRemoveResult::Vacant,
-            TenantsMap::Open(m) | TenantsMap::ShuttingDown(m) => match m.entry(tenant_shard_id) {
-                Entry::Occupied(entry) => match entry.get() {
-                    TenantSlot::InProgress(barrier) => {
-                        TenantsMapRemoveResult::InProgress(barrier.clone())
-                    }
-                    _ => TenantsMapRemoveResult::Occupied(entry.remove()),
-                },
-                Entry::Vacant(_entry) => TenantsMapRemoveResult::Vacant,
-            },
-        }
-    }
-
    #[cfg(all(debug_assertions, not(test)))]
    pub(crate) fn len(&self) -> usize {
        match self {
@@ -422,12 +392,6 @@ fn load_tenant_config(
        }
    };

-    let tenant_ignore_mark_file = tenant_dir_path.join(IGNORED_TENANT_FILE_NAME);
-    if tenant_ignore_mark_file.exists() {
-        info!("Found an ignore mark file {tenant_ignore_mark_file:?}, skipping the tenant");
-        return Ok(None);
-    }
-
    Ok(Some((
        tenant_shard_id,
        Tenant::load_tenant_config(conf, &tenant_shard_id),
@@ -469,6 +433,18 @@ async fn init_load_tenant_configs(
    Ok(configs)
 }

+#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
+pub(crate) enum DeleteTenantError {
+    #[error("Tenant map slot error {0}")]
+    SlotError(#[from] TenantSlotError),
+
+    #[error("Cancelled")]
+    Cancelled,
+
+    #[error(transparent)]
+    Other(#[from] anyhow::Error),
+}
+
 /// Initialize repositories with locally available timelines.
 /// Timelines that are only partially available locally (remote storage has more data than this pageserver)
 /// are scheduled for download and added to the tenant once download is completed.
@@ -519,17 +495,8 @@ pub async fn init_tenant_mgr(
        let mut location_conf = match location_conf {
            Ok(l) => l,
            Err(e) => {
-                warn!(tenant_id=%tenant_shard_id.tenant_id, shard_id=%tenant_shard_id.shard_slug(), "Marking tenant broken, failed to {e:#}");
-
-                tenants.insert(
-                    tenant_shard_id,
-                    TenantSlot::Attached(Tenant::create_broken_tenant(
-                        conf,
-                        tenant_shard_id,
-                        resources.remote_storage.clone(),
-                        format!("{}", e),
-                    )),
-                );
+                // This should only happen in the case of a serialization bug or critical local I/O error: we cannot load this tenant
+                error!(tenant_id=%tenant_shard_id.tenant_id, shard_id=%tenant_shard_id.shard_slug(), "Failed to load tenant config, failed to {e:#}");
                continue;
            }
        };
@@ -638,7 +605,6 @@ pub async fn init_tenant_mgr(
                    AttachedTenantConf::new(location_conf.tenant_conf, attached_conf),
                    shard_identity,
                    Some(init_order.clone()),
-                    &TENANTS,
                    SpawnMode::Lazy,
                    &ctx,
                ) {
@@ -694,7 +660,6 @@ fn tenant_spawn(
    location_conf: AttachedTenantConf,
    shard_identity: ShardIdentity,
    init_order: Option<InitializationOrder>,
-    tenants: &'static std::sync::RwLock<TenantsMap>,
    mode: SpawnMode,
    ctx: &RequestContext,
 ) -> anyhow::Result<Arc<Tenant>> {
@@ -713,30 +678,16 @@ fn tenant_spawn(
        "Cannot load tenant from empty directory {tenant_path:?}"
    );

-    let tenant_ignore_mark = conf.tenant_ignore_mark_file_path(&tenant_shard_id);
-    anyhow::ensure!(
-        !conf.tenant_ignore_mark_file_path(&tenant_shard_id).exists(),
-        "Cannot load tenant, ignore mark found at {tenant_ignore_mark:?}"
-    );
-
-    let remote_storage = resources.remote_storage.clone();
-    let tenant = match Tenant::spawn(
+    let tenant = Tenant::spawn(
        conf,
        tenant_shard_id,
        resources,
        location_conf,
        shard_identity,
        init_order,
-        tenants,
        mode,
        ctx,
-    ) {
-        Ok(tenant) => tenant,
-        Err(e) => {
-            error!("Failed to spawn tenant {tenant_shard_id}, reason: {e:#}");
-            Tenant::create_broken_tenant(conf, tenant_shard_id, remote_storage, format!("{e:#}"))
-        }
-    };
+    );

    Ok(tenant)
 }
@@ -1067,7 +1018,7 @@ impl TenantManager {
        // not do significant I/O, and shutdowns should be prompt via cancellation tokens.
        let mut slot_guard = tenant_map_acquire_slot(&tenant_shard_id, TenantSlotAcquireMode::Any)
            .map_err(|e| match e {
-                TenantSlotError::AlreadyExists(_, _) | TenantSlotError::NotFound(_) => {
+                TenantSlotError::NotFound(_) => {
                    unreachable!("Called with mode Any")
                }
                TenantSlotError::InProgress => UpsertLocationError::InProgress,
@@ -1176,7 +1127,6 @@ impl TenantManager {
                    attached_conf,
                    shard_identity,
                    None,
-                    self.tenants,
                    spawn_mode,
                    ctx,
                )?;
@@ -1298,7 +1248,6 @@ impl TenantManager {
            AttachedTenantConf::try_from(config)?,
            shard_identity,
            None,
-            self.tenants,
            SpawnMode::Eager,
            ctx,
        )?;
@@ -1367,56 +1316,10 @@ impl TenantManager {
        }
    }

-    pub(crate) async fn delete_tenant(
+    async fn delete_tenant_remote(
        &self,
        tenant_shard_id: TenantShardId,
-        activation_timeout: Duration,
-    ) -> Result<StatusCode, DeleteTenantError> {
-        super::span::debug_assert_current_span_has_tenant_id();
-        // We acquire a SlotGuard during this function to protect against concurrent
-        // changes while the ::prepare phase of DeleteTenantFlow executes, but then
-        // have to return the Tenant to the map while the background deletion runs.
-        //
-        // TODO: refactor deletion to happen outside the lifetime of a Tenant.
-        // Currently, deletion requires a reference to the tenants map in order to
-        // keep the Tenant in the map until deletion is complete, and then remove
-        // it at the end.
-        //
-        // See https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/5080
-
-        // Tenant deletion can happen two ways:
-        // - Legacy: called on an attached location. The attached Tenant object stays alive in Stopping
-        //   state until deletion is complete.
-        // - New: called on a pageserver without an attached location.  We proceed with deletion from
-        //   remote storage.
-        //
-        // See https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/5080 for more context on this transition.
-
-        let slot_guard = tenant_map_acquire_slot(&tenant_shard_id, TenantSlotAcquireMode::Any)?;
-        match &slot_guard.old_value {
-            Some(TenantSlot::Attached(tenant)) => {
-                // Legacy deletion flow: the tenant remains attached, goes to Stopping state, and
-                // deletion will be resumed across restarts.
-                let tenant = tenant.clone();
-                return self
-                    .delete_tenant_attached(slot_guard, tenant, activation_timeout)
-                    .await;
-            }
-            Some(TenantSlot::Secondary(secondary_tenant)) => {
-                secondary_tenant.shutdown().await;
-                let local_tenant_directory = self.conf.tenant_path(&tenant_shard_id);
-                let tmp_dir = safe_rename_tenant_dir(&local_tenant_directory)
-                    .await
-                    .with_context(|| {
-                        format!("local tenant directory {local_tenant_directory:?} rename")
-                    })?;
-                spawn_background_purge(tmp_dir);
-            }
-            Some(TenantSlot::InProgress(_)) => unreachable!(),
-            None => {}
-        };
-
-        // Fall through: local state for this tenant is no longer present, proceed with remote delete
+    ) -> Result<(), DeleteTenantError> {
        let remote_path = remote_tenant_path(&tenant_shard_id);
        let keys = match self
            .resources
@@ -1433,7 +1336,7 @@ impl TenantManager {
            Err(remote_storage::DownloadError::Cancelled) => {
                return Err(DeleteTenantError::Cancelled)
            }
-            Err(remote_storage::DownloadError::NotFound) => return Ok(StatusCode::NOT_FOUND),
+            Err(remote_storage::DownloadError::NotFound) => return Ok(()),
            Err(other) => return Err(DeleteTenantError::Other(anyhow::anyhow!(other))),
        };

@@ -1447,60 +1350,83 @@ impl TenantManager {
                .await?;
        }

-        // Callers use 404 as success for deletions, for historical reasons.
-        Ok(StatusCode::NOT_FOUND)
+        Ok(())
    }

-    async fn delete_tenant_attached(
+    /// If a tenant is attached, detach it.  Then remove its data from remote storage.
+    ///
+    /// A tenant is considered deleted once it is gone from remote storage.  It is the caller's
+    /// responsibility to avoid trying to attach the tenant again or use it any way once deletion
+    /// has started: this operation is not atomic, and must be retried until it succeeds.
+    pub(crate) async fn delete_tenant(
        &self,
-        slot_guard: SlotGuard,
-        tenant: Arc<Tenant>,
-        activation_timeout: Duration,
-    ) -> Result<StatusCode, DeleteTenantError> {
-        match tenant.current_state() {
-            TenantState::Broken { .. } | TenantState::Stopping { .. } => {
-                // If deletion is already in progress, return success (the semantics of this
-                // function are to rerturn success afterr deletion is spawned in background).
-                // Otherwise fall through and let [`DeleteTenantFlow`] handle this state.
-                if DeleteTenantFlow::is_in_progress(&tenant) {
-                    // The `delete_progress` lock is held: deletion is already happening
-                    // in the bacckground
-                    slot_guard.revert();
-                    return Ok(StatusCode::ACCEPTED);
-                }
-            }
-            _ => {
-                tenant
-                    .wait_to_become_active(activation_timeout)
-                    .await
-                    .map_err(|e| match e {
-                        GetActiveTenantError::WillNotBecomeActive(_)
-                        | GetActiveTenantError::Broken(_) => {
-                            DeleteTenantError::InvalidState(tenant.current_state())
-                        }
-                        GetActiveTenantError::Cancelled => DeleteTenantError::Cancelled,
-                        GetActiveTenantError::NotFound(_) => DeleteTenantError::NotAttached,
-                        GetActiveTenantError::WaitForActiveTimeout {
-                            latest_state: _latest_state,
-                            wait_time: _wait_time,
-                        } => DeleteTenantError::InvalidState(tenant.current_state()),
-                    })?;
-            }
+        tenant_shard_id: TenantShardId,
+    ) -> Result<(), DeleteTenantError> {
+        super::span::debug_assert_current_span_has_tenant_id();
+
+        async fn delete_local(
+            conf: &PageServerConf,
+            tenant_shard_id: &TenantShardId,
+        ) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+            let local_tenant_directory = conf.tenant_path(tenant_shard_id);
+            let tmp_dir = safe_rename_tenant_dir(&local_tenant_directory)
+                .await
+                .with_context(|| {
+                    format!("local tenant directory {local_tenant_directory:?} rename")
+                })?;
+            spawn_background_purge(tmp_dir);
+            Ok(())
        }

-        let result = DeleteTenantFlow::run(
-            self.conf,
-            self.resources.remote_storage.clone(),
-            &TENANTS,
-            tenant,
+        let slot_guard = tenant_map_acquire_slot(&tenant_shard_id, TenantSlotAcquireMode::Any)?;
+        match &slot_guard.old_value {
+            Some(TenantSlot::Attached(tenant)) => {
+                // Legacy deletion flow: the tenant remains attached, goes to Stopping state, and
+                // deletion will be resumed across restarts.
+                let tenant = tenant.clone();
+                let (_guard, progress) = utils::completion::channel();
+                match tenant.shutdown(progress, ShutdownMode::Hard).await {
+                    Ok(()) => {}
+                    Err(barrier) => {
+                        info!("Shutdown already in progress, waiting for it to complete");
+                        barrier.wait().await;
+                    }
+                }
+                delete_local(self.conf, &tenant_shard_id).await?;
+            }
+            Some(TenantSlot::Secondary(secondary_tenant)) => {
+                secondary_tenant.shutdown().await;
+
+                delete_local(self.conf, &tenant_shard_id).await?;
+            }
+            Some(TenantSlot::InProgress(_)) => unreachable!(),
+            None => {}
+        };
+
+        // Fall through: local state for this tenant is no longer present, proceed with remote delete.
+        // - We use a retry wrapper here so that common transient S3 errors (e.g. 503, 429) do not result
+        //   in 500 responses to delete requests.
+        // - We keep the `SlotGuard` during this I/O, so that if a concurrent delete request comes in, it will
+        //   503/retry, rather than kicking off a wasteful concurrent deletion.
+        match backoff::retry(
+            || async move { self.delete_tenant_remote(tenant_shard_id).await },
+            |e| match e {
+                DeleteTenantError::Cancelled => true,
+                DeleteTenantError::SlotError(_) => {
+                    unreachable!("Remote deletion doesn't touch slots")
+                }
+                _ => false,
+            },
+            1,
+            3,
+            &format!("delete_tenant[tenant_shard_id={tenant_shard_id}]"),
            &self.cancel,
        )
-        .await;
-
-        // The Tenant goes back into the map in Stopping state, it will eventually be removed by DeleteTenantFLow
-        slot_guard.revert();
-        let () = result?;
-        Ok(StatusCode::ACCEPTED)
+        .await
+        {
+            Some(r) => r,
+            None => Err(DeleteTenantError::Cancelled),
+        }
    }

    #[instrument(skip_all, fields(tenant_id=%tenant.get_tenant_shard_id().tenant_id, shard_id=%tenant.get_tenant_shard_id().shard_slug(), new_shard_count=%new_shard_count.literal()))]
@@ -1672,7 +1598,7 @@ impl TenantManager {
        for child_shard_id in &child_shards {
            let child_shard_id = *child_shard_id;
            let child_shard = {
-                let locked = TENANTS.read().unwrap();
+                let locked = self.tenants.read().unwrap();
                let peek_slot =
                    tenant_map_peek_slot(&locked, &child_shard_id, TenantSlotPeekMode::Read)?;
                peek_slot.and_then(|s| s.get_attached()).cloned()
@@ -1773,6 +1699,7 @@ impl TenantManager {
            let timelines = parent_shard.timelines.lock().unwrap().clone();
            let parent_timelines = timelines.keys().cloned().collect::<Vec<_>>();
            for timeline in timelines.values() {
+                tracing::info!(timeline_id=%timeline.timeline_id, "Loading list of layers to hardlink");
                let timeline_layers = timeline
                    .layers
                    .read()
@@ -1812,7 +1739,12 @@ impl TenantManager {

        // Since we will do a large number of small filesystem metadata operations, batch them into
        // spawn_blocking calls rather than doing each one as a tokio::fs round-trip.
+        let span = tracing::Span::current();
        let jh = tokio::task::spawn_blocking(move || -> anyhow::Result<usize> {
+            // Run this synchronous code in the same log context as the outer function that spawned it.
+            let _span = span.enter();
+
+            tracing::info!("Creating {} directories", create_dirs.len());
            for dir in &create_dirs {
                if let Err(e) = std::fs::create_dir_all(dir) {
                    // Ignore AlreadyExists errors, drop out on all other errors
@@ -1826,6 +1758,11 @@ impl TenantManager {
            }

            for child_prefix in child_prefixes {
+                tracing::info!(
+                    "Hard-linking {} parent layers into child path {}",
+                    parent_layers.len(),
+                    child_prefix
+                );
                for relative_layer in &parent_layers {
                    let parent_path = parent_path.join(relative_layer);
                    let child_path = child_prefix.join(relative_layer);
@@ -1851,6 +1788,7 @@ impl TenantManager {
            // Durability is not required for correctness, but if we crashed during split and
            // then came restarted with empty timeline dirs, it would be very inefficient to
            // re-populate from remote storage.
+            tracing::info!("fsyncing {} directories", create_dirs.len());
            for dir in create_dirs {
                if let Err(e) = crashsafe::fsync(&dir) {
                    // Something removed a newly created timeline dir out from underneath us?  Extremely
@@ -1901,17 +1839,10 @@ impl TenantManager {
        &self,
        conf: &'static PageServerConf,
        tenant_shard_id: TenantShardId,
-        detach_ignored: bool,
        deletion_queue_client: &DeletionQueueClient,
    ) -> Result<(), TenantStateError> {
        let tmp_path = self
-            .detach_tenant0(
-                conf,
-                &TENANTS,
-                tenant_shard_id,
-                detach_ignored,
-                deletion_queue_client,
-            )
+            .detach_tenant0(conf, tenant_shard_id, deletion_queue_client)
            .await?;
        spawn_background_purge(tmp_path);

@@ -1921,9 +1852,7 @@ impl TenantManager {
    async fn detach_tenant0(
        &self,
        conf: &'static PageServerConf,
-        tenants: &std::sync::RwLock<TenantsMap>,
        tenant_shard_id: TenantShardId,
-        detach_ignored: bool,
        deletion_queue_client: &DeletionQueueClient,
    ) -> Result<Utf8PathBuf, TenantStateError> {
        let tenant_dir_rename_operation = |tenant_id_to_clean: TenantShardId| async move {
@@ -1936,7 +1865,7 @@ impl TenantManager {
        };

        let removal_result = remove_tenant_from_memory(
-            tenants,
+            self.tenants,
            tenant_shard_id,
            tenant_dir_rename_operation(tenant_shard_id),
        )
@@ -1946,33 +1875,13 @@ impl TenantManager {
        // before this tenant is potentially re-attached elsewhere.
        deletion_queue_client.flush_advisory();

-        // Ignored tenants are not present in memory and will bail the removal from memory operation.
-        // Before returning the error, check for ignored tenant removal case — we only need to clean its local files then.
-        if detach_ignored
-            && matches!(
-                removal_result,
-                Err(TenantStateError::SlotError(TenantSlotError::NotFound(_)))
-            )
-        {
-            let tenant_ignore_mark = conf.tenant_ignore_mark_file_path(&tenant_shard_id);
-            if tenant_ignore_mark.exists() {
-                info!("Detaching an ignored tenant");
-                let tmp_path = tenant_dir_rename_operation(tenant_shard_id)
-                    .await
-                    .with_context(|| {
-                        format!("Ignored tenant {tenant_shard_id} local directory rename")
-                    })?;
-                return Ok(tmp_path);
-            }
-        }
-
        removal_result
    }

    pub(crate) fn list_tenants(
        &self,
    ) -> Result<Vec<(TenantShardId, TenantState, Generation)>, TenantMapListError> {
-        let tenants = TENANTS.read().unwrap();
+        let tenants = self.tenants.read().unwrap();
        let m = match &*tenants {
            TenantsMap::Initializing => return Err(TenantMapListError::Initializing),
            TenantsMap::Open(m) | TenantsMap::ShuttingDown(m) => m,
@@ -2073,7 +1982,6 @@ impl TenantManager {
            AttachedTenantConf::try_from(config)?,
            shard_identity,
            None,
-            self.tenants,
            SpawnMode::Eager,
            ctx,
        )?;
@@ -2222,97 +2130,6 @@ pub(crate) enum TenantStateError {
    Other(#[from] anyhow::Error),
 }

-pub(crate) async fn load_tenant(
-    conf: &'static PageServerConf,
-    tenant_id: TenantId,
-    generation: Generation,
-    broker_client: storage_broker::BrokerClientChannel,
-    remote_storage: GenericRemoteStorage,
-    deletion_queue_client: DeletionQueueClient,
-    ctx: &RequestContext,
-) -> Result<(), TenantMapInsertError> {
-    // This is a legacy API (replaced by `/location_conf`).  It does not support sharding
-    let tenant_shard_id = TenantShardId::unsharded(tenant_id);
-
-    let slot_guard =
-        tenant_map_acquire_slot(&tenant_shard_id, TenantSlotAcquireMode::MustNotExist)?;
-    let tenant_path = conf.tenant_path(&tenant_shard_id);
-
-    let tenant_ignore_mark = conf.tenant_ignore_mark_file_path(&tenant_shard_id);
-    if tenant_ignore_mark.exists() {
-        std::fs::remove_file(&tenant_ignore_mark).with_context(|| {
-            format!(
-                "Failed to remove tenant ignore mark {tenant_ignore_mark:?} during tenant loading"
-            )
-        })?;
-    }
-
-    let resources = TenantSharedResources {
-        broker_client,
-        remote_storage,
-        deletion_queue_client,
-    };
-
-    let mut location_conf =
-        Tenant::load_tenant_config(conf, &tenant_shard_id).map_err(TenantMapInsertError::Other)?;
-    location_conf.attach_in_generation(AttachmentMode::Single, generation);
-
-    Tenant::persist_tenant_config(conf, &tenant_shard_id, &location_conf).await?;
-
-    let shard_identity = location_conf.shard;
-    let new_tenant = tenant_spawn(
-        conf,
-        tenant_shard_id,
-        &tenant_path,
-        resources,
-        AttachedTenantConf::try_from(location_conf)?,
-        shard_identity,
-        None,
-        &TENANTS,
-        SpawnMode::Eager,
-        ctx,
-    )
-    .with_context(|| format!("Failed to schedule tenant processing in path {tenant_path:?}"))?;
-
-    slot_guard.upsert(TenantSlot::Attached(new_tenant))?;
-    Ok(())
-}
-
-pub(crate) async fn ignore_tenant(
-    conf: &'static PageServerConf,
-    tenant_id: TenantId,
-) -> Result<(), TenantStateError> {
-    ignore_tenant0(conf, &TENANTS, tenant_id).await
-}
-
-#[instrument(skip_all, fields(shard_id))]
-async fn ignore_tenant0(
-    conf: &'static PageServerConf,
-    tenants: &std::sync::RwLock<TenantsMap>,
-    tenant_id: TenantId,
-) -> Result<(), TenantStateError> {
-    // This is a legacy API (replaced by `/location_conf`).  It does not support sharding
-    let tenant_shard_id = TenantShardId::unsharded(tenant_id);
-    tracing::Span::current().record(
-        "shard_id",
-        tracing::field::display(tenant_shard_id.shard_slug()),
-    );
-
-    remove_tenant_from_memory(tenants, tenant_shard_id, async {
-        let ignore_mark_file = conf.tenant_ignore_mark_file_path(&tenant_shard_id);
-        fs::File::create(&ignore_mark_file)
-            .await
-            .context("Failed to create ignore mark file")
-            .and_then(|_| {
-                crashsafe::fsync_file_and_parent(&ignore_mark_file)
-                    .context("Failed to fsync ignore mark file")
-            })
-            .with_context(|| format!("Failed to crate ignore mark for tenant {tenant_shard_id}"))?;
-        Ok(())
-    })
-    .await
-}
-
 #[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
 pub(crate) enum TenantMapListError {
    #[error("tenant map is still initiailizing")]
@@ -2337,10 +2154,6 @@ pub(crate) enum TenantSlotError {
    #[error("Tenant {0} not found")]
    NotFound(TenantShardId),

-    /// When acquiring a slot with the expectation that the tenant does not already exist.
-    #[error("tenant {0} already exists, state: {1:?}")]
-    AlreadyExists(TenantShardId, TenantState),
-
    // Tried to read a slot that is currently being mutated by another administrative
    // operation.
    #[error("tenant has a state change in progress, try again later")]
@@ -2656,8 +2469,6 @@ enum TenantSlotAcquireMode {
    Any,
    /// Return an error if trying to acquire a slot and it doesn't already exist
    MustExist,
-    /// Return an error if trying to acquire a slot and it already exists
-    MustNotExist,
 }

 fn tenant_map_acquire_slot(
@@ -2711,27 +2522,6 @@ fn tenant_map_acquire_slot_impl(
                    tracing::debug!("Occupied, failing for InProgress");
                    Err(TenantSlotError::InProgress)
                }
-                (slot, MustNotExist) => match slot {
-                    TenantSlot::Attached(tenant) => {
-                        tracing::debug!("Attached && MustNotExist, return AlreadyExists");
-                        Err(TenantSlotError::AlreadyExists(
-                            *tenant_shard_id,
-                            tenant.current_state(),
-                        ))
-                    }
-                    _ => {
-                        // FIXME: the AlreadyExists error assumes that we have a Tenant
-                        // to get the state from
-                        tracing::debug!("Occupied & MustNotExist, return AlreadyExists");
-                        Err(TenantSlotError::AlreadyExists(
-                            *tenant_shard_id,
-                            TenantState::Broken {
-                                reason: "Present but not attached".to_string(),
-                                backtrace: "".to_string(),
-                            },
-                        ))
-                    }
-                },
                _ => {
                    // Happy case: the slot was not in any state that violated our mode
                    let (completion, barrier) = utils::completion::channel();
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/remote_timeline_client.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/remote_timeline_client.rs
@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ impl RemoteTimelineClient {
        local_path: &Utf8Path,
        cancel: &CancellationToken,
        ctx: &RequestContext,
-    ) -> anyhow::Result<u64> {
+    ) -> Result<u64, DownloadError> {
        let downloaded_size = {
            let _unfinished_gauge_guard = self.metrics.call_begin(
                &RemoteOpFileKind::Layer,
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/secondary/downloader.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/secondary/downloader.rs
@@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ impl<'a> TenantDownloader<'a> {
        // cover our access to local storage.
        let Ok(_guard) = self.secondary_state.gate.enter() else {
            // Shutting down
-            return Ok(());
+            return Err(UpdateError::Cancelled);
        };

        let tenant_shard_id = self.secondary_state.get_tenant_shard_id();
@@ -846,7 +846,7 @@ impl<'a> TenantDownloader<'a> {
        for layer in timeline.layers {
            if self.secondary_state.cancel.is_cancelled() {
                tracing::debug!("Cancelled -- dropping out of layer loop");
-                return Ok(());
+                return Err(UpdateError::Cancelled);
            }

            // Existing on-disk layers: just update their access time.
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/secondary/heatmap_uploader.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/secondary/heatmap_uploader.rs
@@ -367,10 +367,9 @@ async fn upload_tenant_heatmap(
    debug_assert_current_span_has_tenant_id();

    let generation = tenant.get_generation();
+    debug_assert!(!generation.is_none());
    if generation.is_none() {
-        // We do not expect this: generations were implemented before heatmap uploads.  However,
-        // handle it so that we don't have to make the generation in the heatmap an Option<>
-        // (Generation::none is not serializable)
+        // We do not expect this: None generations should only appear in historic layer metadata, not in running Tenants
        tracing::warn!("Skipping heatmap upload for tenant with generation==None");
        return Ok(UploadHeatmapOutcome::Skipped);
    }
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/size.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/size.rs
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ use std::collections::hash_map::Entry;
 use std::collections::{HashMap, HashSet};
 use std::sync::Arc;

-use anyhow::{bail, Context};
 use tokio::sync::oneshot::error::RecvError;
 use tokio::sync::Semaphore;
 use tokio_util::sync::CancellationToken;
@@ -11,7 +10,7 @@ use tokio_util::sync::CancellationToken;
 use crate::context::RequestContext;
 use crate::pgdatadir_mapping::CalculateLogicalSizeError;

-use super::{LogicalSizeCalculationCause, Tenant};
+use super::{GcError, LogicalSizeCalculationCause, Tenant};
 use crate::tenant::Timeline;
 use utils::id::TimelineId;
 use utils::lsn::Lsn;
@@ -43,6 +42,40 @@ pub struct SegmentMeta {
    pub kind: LsnKind,
 }

+#[derive(thiserror::Error, Debug)]
+pub(crate) enum CalculateSyntheticSizeError {
+    /// Something went wrong internally to the calculation of logical size at a particular branch point
+    #[error("Failed to calculated logical size on timeline {timeline_id} at {lsn}: {error}")]
+    LogicalSize {
+        timeline_id: TimelineId,
+        lsn: Lsn,
+        error: CalculateLogicalSizeError,
+    },
+
+    /// Something went wrong internally when calculating GC parameters at start of size calculation
+    #[error(transparent)]
+    GcInfo(GcError),
+
+    /// Totally unexpected errors, like panics joining a task
+    #[error(transparent)]
+    Fatal(anyhow::Error),
+
+    /// Tenant shut down while calculating size
+    #[error("Cancelled")]
+    Cancelled,
+}
+
+impl From<GcError> for CalculateSyntheticSizeError {
+    fn from(value: GcError) -> Self {
+        match value {
+            GcError::TenantCancelled | GcError::TimelineCancelled => {
+                CalculateSyntheticSizeError::Cancelled
+            }
+            other => CalculateSyntheticSizeError::GcInfo(other),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 impl SegmentMeta {
    fn size_needed(&self) -> bool {
        match self.kind {
@@ -116,12 +149,9 @@ pub(super) async fn gather_inputs(
    cause: LogicalSizeCalculationCause,
    cancel: &CancellationToken,
    ctx: &RequestContext,
-) -> anyhow::Result<ModelInputs> {
+) -> Result<ModelInputs, CalculateSyntheticSizeError> {
    // refresh is needed to update gc related pitr_cutoff and horizon_cutoff
-    tenant
-        .refresh_gc_info(cancel, ctx)
-        .await
-        .context("Failed to refresh gc_info before gathering inputs")?;
+    tenant.refresh_gc_info(cancel, ctx).await?;

    // Collect information about all the timelines
    let mut timelines = tenant.list_timelines();
@@ -327,6 +357,12 @@ pub(super) async fn gather_inputs(
    )
    .await?;

+    if tenant.cancel.is_cancelled() {
+        // If we're shutting down, return an error rather than a sparse result that might include some
+        // timelines from before we started shutting down
+        return Err(CalculateSyntheticSizeError::Cancelled);
+    }
+
    Ok(ModelInputs {
        segments,
        timeline_inputs,
@@ -335,9 +371,8 @@ pub(super) async fn gather_inputs(

 /// Augment 'segments' with logical sizes
 ///
-/// this will probably conflict with on-demand downloaded layers, or at least force them all
-/// to be downloaded
-///
+/// This will leave segments' sizes as None if the Timeline associated with the segment is deleted concurrently
+/// (i.e. we cannot read its logical size at a particular LSN).
 async fn fill_logical_sizes(
    timelines: &[Arc<Timeline>],
    segments: &mut [SegmentMeta],
@@ -345,7 +380,7 @@ async fn fill_logical_sizes(
    logical_size_cache: &mut HashMap<(TimelineId, Lsn), u64>,
    cause: LogicalSizeCalculationCause,
    ctx: &RequestContext,
-) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+) -> Result<(), CalculateSyntheticSizeError> {
    let timeline_hash: HashMap<TimelineId, Arc<Timeline>> = HashMap::from_iter(
        timelines
            .iter()
@@ -387,7 +422,7 @@ async fn fill_logical_sizes(
    }

    // Perform the size lookups
-    let mut have_any_error = false;
+    let mut have_any_error = None;
    while let Some(res) = joinset.join_next().await {
        // each of these come with Result<anyhow::Result<_>, JoinError>
        // because of spawn + spawn_blocking
@@ -398,21 +433,36 @@ async fn fill_logical_sizes(
            Err(join_error) => {
                // cannot really do anything, as this panic is likely a bug
                error!("task that calls spawn_ondemand_logical_size_calculation panicked: {join_error:#}");
-                have_any_error = true;
+
+                have_any_error = Some(CalculateSyntheticSizeError::Fatal(
+                    anyhow::anyhow!(join_error)
+                        .context("task that calls spawn_ondemand_logical_size_calculation"),
+                ));
            }
            Ok(Err(recv_result_error)) => {
                // cannot really do anything, as this panic is likely a bug
                error!("failed to receive logical size query result: {recv_result_error:#}");
-                have_any_error = true;
+                have_any_error = Some(CalculateSyntheticSizeError::Fatal(
+                    anyhow::anyhow!(recv_result_error)
+                        .context("Receiving logical size query result"),
+                ));
            }
            Ok(Ok(TimelineAtLsnSizeResult(timeline, lsn, Err(error)))) => {
-                if !matches!(error, CalculateLogicalSizeError::Cancelled) {
+                if matches!(error, CalculateLogicalSizeError::Cancelled) {
+                    // Skip this: it's okay if one timeline among many is shutting down while we
+                    // calculate inputs for the overall tenant.
+                    continue;
+                } else {
                    warn!(
                        timeline_id=%timeline.timeline_id,
                        "failed to calculate logical size at {lsn}: {error:#}"
                    );
+                    have_any_error = Some(CalculateSyntheticSizeError::LogicalSize {
+                        timeline_id: timeline.timeline_id,
+                        lsn,
+                        error,
+                    });
                }
-                have_any_error = true;
            }
            Ok(Ok(TimelineAtLsnSizeResult(timeline, lsn, Ok(size)))) => {
                debug!(timeline_id=%timeline.timeline_id, %lsn, size, "size calculated");
@@ -426,10 +476,10 @@ async fn fill_logical_sizes(
    // prune any keys not needed anymore; we record every used key and added key.
    logical_size_cache.retain(|key, _| sizes_needed.contains_key(key));

-    if have_any_error {
+    if let Some(error) = have_any_error {
        // we cannot complete this round, because we are missing data.
        // we have however cached all we were able to request calculation on.
-        anyhow::bail!("failed to calculate some logical_sizes");
+        return Err(error);
    }

    // Insert the looked up sizes to the Segments
@@ -443,33 +493,28 @@ async fn fill_logical_sizes(

        if let Some(Some(size)) = sizes_needed.get(&(timeline_id, lsn)) {
            seg.segment.size = Some(*size);
-        } else {
-            bail!("could not find size at {} in timeline {}", lsn, timeline_id);
        }
    }
    Ok(())
 }

 impl ModelInputs {
-    pub fn calculate_model(&self) -> anyhow::Result<tenant_size_model::StorageModel> {
+    pub fn calculate_model(&self) -> tenant_size_model::StorageModel {
        // Convert SegmentMetas into plain Segments
-        let storage = StorageModel {
+        StorageModel {
            segments: self
                .segments
                .iter()
                .map(|seg| seg.segment.clone())
                .collect(),
-        };
-
-        Ok(storage)
+        }
    }

    // calculate total project size
-    pub fn calculate(&self) -> anyhow::Result<u64> {
-        let storage = self.calculate_model()?;
+    pub fn calculate(&self) -> u64 {
+        let storage = self.calculate_model();
        let sizes = storage.calculate();
-
-        Ok(sizes.total_size)
+        sizes.total_size
    }
 }

@@ -656,7 +701,7 @@ fn verify_size_for_multiple_branches() {
 "#;
    let inputs: ModelInputs = serde_json::from_str(doc).unwrap();

-    assert_eq!(inputs.calculate().unwrap(), 37_851_408);
+    assert_eq!(inputs.calculate(), 37_851_408);
 }

 #[test]
@@ -711,7 +756,7 @@ fn verify_size_for_one_branch() {

    let model: ModelInputs = serde_json::from_str(doc).unwrap();

-    let res = model.calculate_model().unwrap().calculate();
+    let res = model.calculate_model().calculate();

    println!("calculated synthetic size: {}", res.total_size);
    println!("result: {:?}", serde_json::to_string(&res.segments));
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/storage_layer.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/storage_layer.rs
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ pub(crate) struct LayerFringe {
 #[derive(Debug)]
 struct LayerKeyspace {
    layer: ReadableLayer,
-    target_keyspace: Vec<KeySpace>,
+    target_keyspace: KeySpaceRandomAccum,
 }

 impl LayerFringe {
@@ -342,17 +342,13 @@ impl LayerFringe {
                _,
                LayerKeyspace {
                    layer,
-                    target_keyspace,
+                    mut target_keyspace,
                },
-            )) => {
-                let mut keyspace = KeySpaceRandomAccum::new();
-                for ks in target_keyspace {
-                    for part in ks.ranges {
-                        keyspace.add_range(part);
-                    }
-                }
-                Some((layer, keyspace.consume_keyspace(), read_desc.lsn_range))
-            }
+            )) => Some((
+                layer,
+                target_keyspace.consume_keyspace(),
+                read_desc.lsn_range,
+            )),
            None => unreachable!("fringe internals are always consistent"),
        }
    }
@@ -367,16 +363,18 @@ impl LayerFringe {
        let entry = self.layers.entry(layer_id.clone());
        match entry {
            Entry::Occupied(mut entry) => {
-                entry.get_mut().target_keyspace.push(keyspace);
+                entry.get_mut().target_keyspace.add_keyspace(keyspace);
            }
            Entry::Vacant(entry) => {
                self.planned_reads_by_lsn.push(ReadDesc {
                    lsn_range,
                    layer_id: layer_id.clone(),
                });
+                let mut accum = KeySpaceRandomAccum::new();
+                accum.add_keyspace(keyspace);
                entry.insert(LayerKeyspace {
                    layer,
-                    target_keyspace: vec![keyspace],
+                    target_keyspace: accum,
                });
            }
        }
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/storage_layer/delta_layer.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/storage_layer/delta_layer.rs
@@ -219,7 +219,6 @@ pub struct DeltaLayerInner {
    // values copied from summary
    index_start_blk: u32,
    index_root_blk: u32,
-    lsn_range: Range<Lsn>,

    file: VirtualFile,
    file_id: FileId,
@@ -785,7 +784,6 @@ impl DeltaLayerInner {
            file_id,
            index_start_blk: actual_summary.index_start_blk,
            index_root_blk: actual_summary.index_root_blk,
-            lsn_range: actual_summary.lsn_range,
            max_vectored_read_bytes,
        }))
    }
@@ -911,7 +909,7 @@ impl DeltaLayerInner {

        let reads = Self::plan_reads(
            &keyspace,
-            lsn_range,
+            lsn_range.clone(),
            data_end_offset,
            index_reader,
            planner,
@@ -924,13 +922,12 @@ impl DeltaLayerInner {
        self.do_reads_and_update_state(reads, reconstruct_state, ctx)
            .await;

-        reconstruct_state.on_lsn_advanced(&keyspace, self.lsn_range.start);
+        reconstruct_state.on_lsn_advanced(&keyspace, lsn_range.start);

        Ok(())
    }

    /// Load all key-values in the delta layer, should be replaced by an iterator-based interface in the future.
-    #[cfg(test)]
    pub(super) async fn load_key_values(
        &self,
        ctx: &RequestContext,
@@ -943,7 +940,7 @@ impl DeltaLayerInner {
        );
        let mut result = Vec::new();
        let mut stream =
-            Box::pin(self.stream_index_forwards(&index_reader, &[0; DELTA_KEY_SIZE], ctx));
+            Box::pin(self.stream_index_forwards(index_reader, &[0; DELTA_KEY_SIZE], ctx));
        let block_reader = FileBlockReader::new(&self.file, self.file_id);
        let cursor = block_reader.block_cursor();
        let mut buf = Vec::new();
@@ -978,7 +975,7 @@ impl DeltaLayerInner {
        ctx: &RequestContext,
    ) -> anyhow::Result<Vec<VectoredRead>>
    where
-        Reader: BlockReader,
+        Reader: BlockReader + Clone,
    {
        let ctx = RequestContextBuilder::extend(ctx)
            .page_content_kind(PageContentKind::DeltaLayerBtreeNode)
@@ -988,7 +985,7 @@ impl DeltaLayerInner {
            let mut range_end_handled = false;

            let start_key = DeltaKey::from_key_lsn(&range.start, lsn_range.start);
-            let index_stream = index_reader.get_stream_from(&start_key.0, &ctx);
+            let index_stream = index_reader.clone().into_stream(&start_key.0, &ctx);
            let mut index_stream = std::pin::pin!(index_stream);

            while let Some(index_entry) = index_stream.next().await {
@@ -1243,7 +1240,7 @@ impl DeltaLayerInner {
            block_reader,
        );

-        let stream = self.stream_index_forwards(&tree_reader, &[0u8; DELTA_KEY_SIZE], ctx);
+        let stream = self.stream_index_forwards(tree_reader, &[0u8; DELTA_KEY_SIZE], ctx);
        let stream = stream.map_ok(|(key, lsn, pos)| Item::Actual(key, lsn, pos));
        // put in a sentinel value for getting the end offset for last item, and not having to
        // repeat the whole read part
@@ -1302,7 +1299,7 @@ impl DeltaLayerInner {
                        offsets.start.pos(),
                        offsets.end.pos(),
                        meta,
-                        max_read_size,
+                        Some(max_read_size),
                    ))
                }
            } else {
@@ -1461,17 +1458,17 @@ impl DeltaLayerInner {

    fn stream_index_forwards<'a, R>(
        &'a self,
-        reader: &'a DiskBtreeReader<R, DELTA_KEY_SIZE>,
+        reader: DiskBtreeReader<R, DELTA_KEY_SIZE>,
        start: &'a [u8; DELTA_KEY_SIZE],
        ctx: &'a RequestContext,
    ) -> impl futures::stream::Stream<
        Item = Result<(Key, Lsn, BlobRef), crate::tenant::disk_btree::DiskBtreeError>,
    > + 'a
    where
-        R: BlockReader,
+        R: BlockReader + 'a,
    {
        use futures::stream::TryStreamExt;
-        let stream = reader.get_stream_from(start, ctx);
+        let stream = reader.into_stream(start, ctx);
        stream.map_ok(|(key, value)| {
            let key = DeltaKey::from_slice(&key);
            let (key, lsn) = (key.key(), key.lsn());
@@ -1495,6 +1492,24 @@ impl DeltaLayerInner {
        );
        offset
    }
+
+    #[cfg(test)]
+    pub(crate) fn iter<'a>(&'a self, ctx: &'a RequestContext) -> DeltaLayerIterator<'a> {
+        let block_reader = FileBlockReader::new(&self.file, self.file_id);
+        let tree_reader =
+            DiskBtreeReader::new(self.index_start_blk, self.index_root_blk, block_reader);
+        DeltaLayerIterator {
+            delta_layer: self,
+            ctx,
+            index_iter: tree_reader.iter(&[0; DELTA_KEY_SIZE], ctx),
+            key_values_batch: std::collections::VecDeque::new(),
+            is_end: false,
+            planner: crate::tenant::vectored_blob_io::StreamingVectoredReadPlanner::new(
+                1024 * 8192, // The default value. Unit tests might use a different value. 1024 * 8K = 8MB buffer.
+                1024,        // The default value. Unit tests might use a different value
+            ),
+        }
+    }
 }

 /// A set of data associated with a delta layer key and its value
@@ -1554,6 +1569,70 @@ impl<'a> pageserver_compaction::interface::CompactionDeltaEntry<'a, Key> for Del
    }
 }

+#[cfg(test)]
+pub struct DeltaLayerIterator<'a> {
+    delta_layer: &'a DeltaLayerInner,
+    ctx: &'a RequestContext,
+    planner: crate::tenant::vectored_blob_io::StreamingVectoredReadPlanner,
+    index_iter: crate::tenant::disk_btree::DiskBtreeIterator<'a>,
+    key_values_batch: std::collections::VecDeque<(Key, Lsn, Value)>,
+    is_end: bool,
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+impl<'a> DeltaLayerIterator<'a> {
+    /// Retrieve a batch of key-value pairs into the iterator buffer.
+    async fn next_batch(&mut self) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+        assert!(self.key_values_batch.is_empty());
+        assert!(!self.is_end);
+
+        let plan = loop {
+            if let Some(res) = self.index_iter.next().await {
+                let (raw_key, value) = res?;
+                let key = Key::from_slice(&raw_key[..KEY_SIZE]);
+                let lsn = DeltaKey::extract_lsn_from_buf(&raw_key);
+                let blob_ref = BlobRef(value);
+                let offset = blob_ref.pos();
+                if let Some(batch_plan) = self.planner.handle(key, lsn, offset, BlobFlag::None) {
+                    break batch_plan;
+                }
+            } else {
+                self.is_end = true;
+                let data_end_offset = self.delta_layer.index_start_offset();
+                break self.planner.handle_range_end(data_end_offset);
+            }
+        };
+        let vectored_blob_reader = VectoredBlobReader::new(&self.delta_layer.file);
+        let mut next_batch = std::collections::VecDeque::new();
+        let buf_size = plan.size();
+        let buf = BytesMut::with_capacity(buf_size);
+        let blobs_buf = vectored_blob_reader
+            .read_blobs(&plan, buf, self.ctx)
+            .await?;
+        let frozen_buf = blobs_buf.buf.freeze();
+        for meta in blobs_buf.blobs.iter() {
+            let value = Value::des(&frozen_buf[meta.start..meta.end])?;
+            next_batch.push_back((meta.meta.key, meta.meta.lsn, value));
+        }
+        self.key_values_batch = next_batch;
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    pub async fn next(&mut self) -> anyhow::Result<Option<(Key, Lsn, Value)>> {
+        if self.key_values_batch.is_empty() {
+            if self.is_end {
+                return Ok(None);
+            }
+            self.next_batch().await?;
+        }
+        Ok(Some(
+            self.key_values_batch
+                .pop_front()
+                .expect("should not be empty"),
+        ))
+    }
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod test {
    use std::collections::BTreeMap;
@@ -1563,6 +1642,9 @@ mod test {
    use rand::RngCore;

    use super::*;
+    use crate::tenant::harness::TIMELINE_ID;
+    use crate::tenant::vectored_blob_io::StreamingVectoredReadPlanner;
+    use crate::tenant::Tenant;
    use crate::{
        context::DownloadBehavior,
        task_mgr::TaskKind,
@@ -1859,7 +1941,7 @@ mod test {
            .finish(entries_meta.key_range.end, &timeline, &ctx)
            .await?;

-        let inner = resident.as_delta(&ctx).await?;
+        let inner = resident.get_as_delta(&ctx).await?;

        let file_size = inner.file.metadata().await?.len();
        tracing::info!(
@@ -2046,11 +2128,11 @@ mod test {

            let copied_layer = writer.finish(Key::MAX, &branch, ctx).await.unwrap();

-            copied_layer.as_delta(ctx).await.unwrap();
+            copied_layer.get_as_delta(ctx).await.unwrap();

            assert_keys_and_values_eq(
-                new_layer.as_delta(ctx).await.unwrap(),
-                copied_layer.as_delta(ctx).await.unwrap(),
+                new_layer.get_as_delta(ctx).await.unwrap(),
+                copied_layer.get_as_delta(ctx).await.unwrap(),
                truncate_at,
                ctx,
            )
@@ -2075,7 +2157,7 @@ mod test {
            source.index_root_blk,
            &source_reader,
        );
-        let source_stream = source.stream_index_forwards(&source_tree, &start_key, ctx);
+        let source_stream = source.stream_index_forwards(source_tree, &start_key, ctx);
        let source_stream = source_stream.filter(|res| match res {
            Ok((_, lsn, _)) => ready(lsn < &truncated_at),
            _ => ready(true),
@@ -2088,7 +2170,7 @@ mod test {
            truncated.index_root_blk,
            &truncated_reader,
        );
-        let truncated_stream = truncated.stream_index_forwards(&truncated_tree, &start_key, ctx);
+        let truncated_stream = truncated.stream_index_forwards(truncated_tree, &start_key, ctx);
        let mut truncated_stream = std::pin::pin!(truncated_stream);

        let mut scratch_left = Vec::new();
@@ -2129,4 +2211,116 @@ mod test {
            assert_eq!(utils::Hex(&scratch_left), utils::Hex(&scratch_right));
        }
    }
+
+    async fn produce_delta_layer(
+        tenant: &Tenant,
+        tline: &Arc<Timeline>,
+        mut deltas: Vec<(Key, Lsn, Value)>,
+        ctx: &RequestContext,
+    ) -> anyhow::Result<ResidentLayer> {
+        deltas.sort_by(|(k1, l1, _), (k2, l2, _)| (k1, l1).cmp(&(k2, l2)));
+        let (key_start, _, _) = deltas.first().unwrap();
+        let (key_max, _, _) = deltas.first().unwrap();
+        let lsn_min = deltas.iter().map(|(_, lsn, _)| lsn).min().unwrap();
+        let lsn_max = deltas.iter().map(|(_, lsn, _)| lsn).max().unwrap();
+        let lsn_end = Lsn(lsn_max.0 + 1);
+        let mut writer = DeltaLayerWriter::new(
+            tenant.conf,
+            tline.timeline_id,
+            tenant.tenant_shard_id,
+            *key_start,
+            (*lsn_min)..lsn_end,
+            ctx,
+        )
+        .await?;
+        let key_end = key_max.next();
+
+        for (key, lsn, value) in deltas {
+            writer.put_value(key, lsn, value, ctx).await?;
+        }
+        let delta_layer = writer.finish(key_end, tline, ctx).await?;
+
+        Ok::<_, anyhow::Error>(delta_layer)
+    }
+
+    async fn assert_delta_iter_equal(
+        delta_iter: &mut DeltaLayerIterator<'_>,
+        expect: &[(Key, Lsn, Value)],
+    ) {
+        let mut expect_iter = expect.iter();
+        loop {
+            let o1 = delta_iter.next().await.unwrap();
+            let o2 = expect_iter.next();
+            assert_eq!(o1.is_some(), o2.is_some());
+            if o1.is_none() && o2.is_none() {
+                break;
+            }
+            let (k1, l1, v1) = o1.unwrap();
+            let (k2, l2, v2) = o2.unwrap();
+            assert_eq!(&k1, k2);
+            assert_eq!(l1, *l2);
+            assert_eq!(&v1, v2);
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn delta_layer_iterator() {
+        use crate::repository::Value;
+        use bytes::Bytes;
+
+        let harness = TenantHarness::create("delta_layer_iterator").unwrap();
+        let (tenant, ctx) = harness.load().await;
+
+        let tline = tenant
+            .create_test_timeline(TIMELINE_ID, Lsn(0x10), DEFAULT_PG_VERSION, &ctx)
+            .await
+            .unwrap();
+
+        fn get_key(id: u32) -> Key {
+            let mut key = Key::from_hex("000000000033333333444444445500000000").unwrap();
+            key.field6 = id;
+            key
+        }
+        const N: usize = 1000;
+        let test_deltas = (0..N)
+            .map(|idx| {
+                (
+                    get_key(idx as u32 / 10),
+                    Lsn(0x10 * ((idx as u64) % 10 + 1)),
+                    Value::Image(Bytes::from(format!("img{idx:05}"))),
+                )
+            })
+            .collect_vec();
+        let resident_layer = produce_delta_layer(&tenant, &tline, test_deltas.clone(), &ctx)
+            .await
+            .unwrap();
+        let delta_layer = resident_layer.get_as_delta(&ctx).await.unwrap();
+        for max_read_size in [1, 1024] {
+            for batch_size in [1, 2, 4, 8, 3, 7, 13] {
+                println!("running with batch_size={batch_size} max_read_size={max_read_size}");
+                // Test if the batch size is correctly determined
+                let mut iter = delta_layer.iter(&ctx);
+                iter.planner = StreamingVectoredReadPlanner::new(max_read_size, batch_size);
+                let mut num_items = 0;
+                for _ in 0..3 {
+                    iter.next_batch().await.unwrap();
+                    num_items += iter.key_values_batch.len();
+                    if max_read_size == 1 {
+                        // every key should be a batch b/c the value is larger than max_read_size
+                        assert_eq!(iter.key_values_batch.len(), 1);
+                    } else {
+                        assert_eq!(iter.key_values_batch.len(), batch_size);
+                    }
+                    if num_items >= N {
+                        break;
+                    }
+                    iter.key_values_batch.clear();
+                }
+                // Test if the result is correct
+                let mut iter = delta_layer.iter(&ctx);
+                iter.planner = StreamingVectoredReadPlanner::new(max_read_size, batch_size);
+                assert_delta_iter_equal(&mut iter, &test_deltas).await;
+            }
+        }
+    }
 }
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/storage_layer/image_layer.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/storage_layer/image_layer.rs
@@ -486,7 +486,6 @@ impl ImageLayerInner {
    }

    /// Load all key-values in the delta layer, should be replaced by an iterator-based interface in the future.
-    #[cfg(test)]
    pub(super) async fn load_key_values(
        &self,
        ctx: &RequestContext,
@@ -495,7 +494,7 @@ impl ImageLayerInner {
        let tree_reader =
            DiskBtreeReader::new(self.index_start_blk, self.index_root_blk, &block_reader);
        let mut result = Vec::new();
-        let mut stream = Box::pin(tree_reader.get_stream_from(&[0; KEY_SIZE], ctx));
+        let mut stream = Box::pin(tree_reader.into_stream(&[0; KEY_SIZE], ctx));
        let block_reader = FileBlockReader::new(&self.file, self.file_id);
        let cursor = block_reader.block_cursor();
        while let Some(item) = stream.next().await {
@@ -544,7 +543,7 @@ impl ImageLayerInner {
            let mut search_key: [u8; KEY_SIZE] = [0u8; KEY_SIZE];
            range.start.write_to_byte_slice(&mut search_key);

-            let index_stream = tree_reader.get_stream_from(&search_key, &ctx);
+            let index_stream = tree_reader.clone().into_stream(&search_key, &ctx);
            let mut index_stream = std::pin::pin!(index_stream);

            while let Some(index_entry) = index_stream.next().await {
@@ -689,6 +688,24 @@ impl ImageLayerInner {
            };
        }
    }
+
+    #[cfg(test)]
+    pub(crate) fn iter<'a>(&'a self, ctx: &'a RequestContext) -> ImageLayerIterator<'a> {
+        let block_reader = FileBlockReader::new(&self.file, self.file_id);
+        let tree_reader =
+            DiskBtreeReader::new(self.index_start_blk, self.index_root_blk, block_reader);
+        ImageLayerIterator {
+            image_layer: self,
+            ctx,
+            index_iter: tree_reader.iter(&[0; KEY_SIZE], ctx),
+            key_values_batch: std::collections::VecDeque::new(),
+            is_end: false,
+            planner: crate::tenant::vectored_blob_io::StreamingVectoredReadPlanner::new(
+                1024 * 8192, // The default value. Unit tests might use a different value. 1024 * 8K = 8MB buffer.
+                1024,        // The default value. Unit tests might use a different value
+            ),
+        }
+    }
 }

 /// A builder object for constructing a new image layer.
@@ -943,11 +960,77 @@ impl Drop for ImageLayerWriter {
    }
 }

+#[cfg(test)]
+pub struct ImageLayerIterator<'a> {
+    image_layer: &'a ImageLayerInner,
+    ctx: &'a RequestContext,
+    planner: crate::tenant::vectored_blob_io::StreamingVectoredReadPlanner,
+    index_iter: crate::tenant::disk_btree::DiskBtreeIterator<'a>,
+    key_values_batch: std::collections::VecDeque<(Key, Lsn, Value)>,
+    is_end: bool,
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+impl<'a> ImageLayerIterator<'a> {
+    /// Retrieve a batch of key-value pairs into the iterator buffer.
+    async fn next_batch(&mut self) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+        assert!(self.key_values_batch.is_empty());
+        assert!(!self.is_end);
+
+        let plan = loop {
+            if let Some(res) = self.index_iter.next().await {
+                let (raw_key, offset) = res?;
+                if let Some(batch_plan) = self.planner.handle(
+                    Key::from_slice(&raw_key[..KEY_SIZE]),
+                    self.image_layer.lsn,
+                    offset,
+                    BlobFlag::None,
+                ) {
+                    break batch_plan;
+                }
+            } else {
+                self.is_end = true;
+                let payload_end = self.image_layer.index_start_blk as u64 * PAGE_SZ as u64;
+                break self.planner.handle_range_end(payload_end);
+            }
+        };
+        let vectored_blob_reader = VectoredBlobReader::new(&self.image_layer.file);
+        let mut next_batch = std::collections::VecDeque::new();
+        let buf_size = plan.size();
+        let buf = BytesMut::with_capacity(buf_size);
+        let blobs_buf = vectored_blob_reader
+            .read_blobs(&plan, buf, self.ctx)
+            .await?;
+        let frozen_buf: Bytes = blobs_buf.buf.freeze();
+        for meta in blobs_buf.blobs.iter() {
+            let img_buf = frozen_buf.slice(meta.start..meta.end);
+            next_batch.push_back((meta.meta.key, self.image_layer.lsn, Value::Image(img_buf)));
+        }
+        self.key_values_batch = next_batch;
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    pub async fn next(&mut self) -> anyhow::Result<Option<(Key, Lsn, Value)>> {
+        if self.key_values_batch.is_empty() {
+            if self.is_end {
+                return Ok(None);
+            }
+            self.next_batch().await?;
+        }
+        Ok(Some(
+            self.key_values_batch
+                .pop_front()
+                .expect("should not be empty"),
+        ))
+    }
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod test {
-    use std::time::Duration;
+    use std::{sync::Arc, time::Duration};

    use bytes::Bytes;
+    use itertools::Itertools;
    use pageserver_api::{
        key::Key,
        shard::{ShardCount, ShardIdentity, ShardNumber, ShardStripeSize},
@@ -959,11 +1042,19 @@ mod test {
    };

    use crate::{
-        tenant::{config::TenantConf, harness::TenantHarness},
+        context::RequestContext,
+        repository::Value,
+        tenant::{
+            config::TenantConf,
+            harness::{TenantHarness, TIMELINE_ID},
+            storage_layer::ResidentLayer,
+            vectored_blob_io::StreamingVectoredReadPlanner,
+            Tenant, Timeline,
+        },
        DEFAULT_PG_VERSION,
    };

-    use super::ImageLayerWriter;
+    use super::{ImageLayerIterator, ImageLayerWriter};

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn image_layer_rewrite() {
@@ -1134,4 +1225,111 @@ mod test {
            }
        }
    }
+
+    async fn produce_image_layer(
+        tenant: &Tenant,
+        tline: &Arc<Timeline>,
+        mut images: Vec<(Key, Bytes)>,
+        lsn: Lsn,
+        ctx: &RequestContext,
+    ) -> anyhow::Result<ResidentLayer> {
+        images.sort();
+        let (key_start, _) = images.first().unwrap();
+        let (key_last, _) = images.last().unwrap();
+        let key_end = key_last.next();
+        let key_range = *key_start..key_end;
+        let mut writer = ImageLayerWriter::new(
+            tenant.conf,
+            tline.timeline_id,
+            tenant.tenant_shard_id,
+            &key_range,
+            lsn,
+            ctx,
+        )
+        .await?;
+
+        for (key, img) in images {
+            writer.put_image(key, img, ctx).await?;
+        }
+        let img_layer = writer.finish(tline, ctx).await?;
+
+        Ok::<_, anyhow::Error>(img_layer)
+    }
+
+    async fn assert_img_iter_equal(
+        img_iter: &mut ImageLayerIterator<'_>,
+        expect: &[(Key, Bytes)],
+        expect_lsn: Lsn,
+    ) {
+        let mut expect_iter = expect.iter();
+        loop {
+            let o1 = img_iter.next().await.unwrap();
+            let o2 = expect_iter.next();
+            match (o1, o2) {
+                (None, None) => break,
+                (Some((k1, l1, v1)), Some((k2, i2))) => {
+                    let Value::Image(i1) = v1 else {
+                        panic!("expect Value::Image")
+                    };
+                    assert_eq!(&k1, k2);
+                    assert_eq!(l1, expect_lsn);
+                    assert_eq!(&i1, i2);
+                }
+                (o1, o2) => panic!("iterators length mismatch: {:?}, {:?}", o1, o2),
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn image_layer_iterator() {
+        let harness = TenantHarness::create("image_layer_iterator").unwrap();
+        let (tenant, ctx) = harness.load().await;
+
+        let tline = tenant
+            .create_test_timeline(TIMELINE_ID, Lsn(0x10), DEFAULT_PG_VERSION, &ctx)
+            .await
+            .unwrap();
+
+        fn get_key(id: u32) -> Key {
+            let mut key = Key::from_hex("000000000033333333444444445500000000").unwrap();
+            key.field6 = id;
+            key
+        }
+        const N: usize = 1000;
+        let test_imgs = (0..N)
+            .map(|idx| (get_key(idx as u32), Bytes::from(format!("img{idx:05}"))))
+            .collect_vec();
+        let resident_layer =
+            produce_image_layer(&tenant, &tline, test_imgs.clone(), Lsn(0x10), &ctx)
+                .await
+                .unwrap();
+        let img_layer = resident_layer.get_as_image(&ctx).await.unwrap();
+        for max_read_size in [1, 1024] {
+            for batch_size in [1, 2, 4, 8, 3, 7, 13] {
+                println!("running with batch_size={batch_size} max_read_size={max_read_size}");
+                // Test if the batch size is correctly determined
+                let mut iter = img_layer.iter(&ctx);
+                iter.planner = StreamingVectoredReadPlanner::new(max_read_size, batch_size);
+                let mut num_items = 0;
+                for _ in 0..3 {
+                    iter.next_batch().await.unwrap();
+                    num_items += iter.key_values_batch.len();
+                    if max_read_size == 1 {
+                        // every key should be a batch b/c the value is larger than max_read_size
+                        assert_eq!(iter.key_values_batch.len(), 1);
+                    } else {
+                        assert_eq!(iter.key_values_batch.len(), batch_size);
+                    }
+                    if num_items >= N {
+                        break;
+                    }
+                    iter.key_values_batch.clear();
+                }
+                // Test if the result is correct
+                let mut iter = img_layer.iter(&ctx);
+                iter.planner = StreamingVectoredReadPlanner::new(max_read_size, batch_size);
+                assert_img_iter_equal(&mut iter, &test_imgs, Lsn(0x10)).await;
+            }
+        }
+    }
 }
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/storage_layer/inmemory_layer.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/storage_layer/inmemory_layer.rs
@@ -622,18 +622,16 @@ impl InMemoryLayer {

        let end_lsn = *self.end_lsn.get().unwrap();

-        let keys: Vec<_> = if let Some(key_range) = key_range {
+        let key_count = if let Some(key_range) = key_range {
            inner
                .index
                .iter()
                .filter(|(k, _)| key_range.contains(k))
-                .map(|(k, m)| (k.to_i128(), m))
-                .collect()
+                .count()
        } else {
-            inner.index.iter().map(|(k, m)| (k.to_i128(), m)).collect()
+            inner.index.len()
        };
-
-        if keys.is_empty() {
+        if key_count == 0 {
            return Ok(None);
        }

--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/storage_layer/layer.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/storage_layer/layer.rs
@@ -93,16 +93,12 @@ pub(crate) struct Layer(Arc<LayerInner>);

 impl std::fmt::Display for Layer {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
-        if matches!(self.0.generation, Generation::Broken) {
-            write!(f, "{}-broken", self.layer_desc().short_id())
-        } else {
-            write!(
-                f,
-                "{}{}",
-                self.layer_desc().short_id(),
-                self.0.generation.get_suffix()
-            )
-        }
+        write!(
+            f,
+            "{}{}",
+            self.layer_desc().short_id(),
+            self.0.generation.get_suffix()
+        )
    }
 }

@@ -389,7 +385,6 @@ impl Layer {
    }

    /// Get all key/values in the layer. Should be replaced with an iterator-based API in the future.
-    #[cfg(test)]
    pub(crate) async fn load_key_values(
        &self,
        ctx: &RequestContext,
@@ -1101,19 +1096,10 @@ impl LayerInner {

        match rx.await {
            Ok(Ok(res)) => Ok(res),
-            Ok(Err(e)) => {
-                // sleep already happened in the spawned task, if it was not cancelled
-                match e.downcast_ref::<remote_storage::DownloadError>() {
-                    // If the download failed due to its cancellation token,
-                    // propagate the cancellation error upstream.
-                    Some(remote_storage::DownloadError::Cancelled) => {
-                        Err(DownloadError::DownloadCancelled)
-                    }
-                    // FIXME: this is not embedding the error because historically it would had
-                    // been output to compute, however that is no longer the case.
-                    _ => Err(DownloadError::DownloadFailed),
-                }
-            }
+            Ok(Err(e)) => match e {
+                remote_storage::DownloadError::Cancelled => Err(DownloadError::DownloadCancelled),
+                _ => Err(DownloadError::DownloadFailed),
+            },
            Err(_gone) => Err(DownloadError::DownloadCancelled),
        }
    }
@@ -1123,7 +1109,7 @@ impl LayerInner {
        timeline: Arc<Timeline>,
        permit: heavier_once_cell::InitPermit,
        ctx: &RequestContext,
-    ) -> anyhow::Result<Arc<DownloadedLayer>> {
+    ) -> Result<Arc<DownloadedLayer>, remote_storage::DownloadError> {
        let result = timeline
            .remote_client
            .download_layer_file(
@@ -1774,7 +1760,6 @@ impl DownloadedLayer {
        }
    }

-    #[cfg(test)]
    async fn load_key_values(
        &self,
        owner: &Arc<LayerInner>,
@@ -1905,7 +1890,7 @@ impl ResidentLayer {
    }

    #[cfg(test)]
-    pub(crate) async fn as_delta(
+    pub(crate) async fn get_as_delta(
        &self,
        ctx: &RequestContext,
    ) -> anyhow::Result<&delta_layer::DeltaLayerInner> {
@@ -1915,6 +1900,18 @@ impl ResidentLayer {
            Image(_) => Err(anyhow::anyhow!("image layer")),
        }
    }
+
+    #[cfg(test)]
+    pub(crate) async fn get_as_image(
+        &self,
+        ctx: &RequestContext,
+    ) -> anyhow::Result<&image_layer::ImageLayerInner> {
+        use LayerKind::*;
+        match self.downloaded.get(&self.owner.0, ctx).await? {
+            Image(ref d) => Ok(d),
+            Delta(_) => Err(anyhow::anyhow!("delta layer")),
+        }
+    }
 }

 impl AsLayerDesc for ResidentLayer {
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/tasks.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/tasks.rs
@@ -346,6 +346,7 @@ async fn gc_loop(tenant: Arc<Tenant>, cancel: CancellationToken) {
        // cutoff specified as time.
        let ctx =
            RequestContext::todo_child(TaskKind::GarbageCollector, DownloadBehavior::Download);
+
        let mut first = true;
        loop {
            tokio::select! {
@@ -362,6 +363,14 @@ async fn gc_loop(tenant: Arc<Tenant>, cancel: CancellationToken) {

            if first {
                first = false;
+
+                if delay_by_lease_length(tenant.get_lsn_lease_length(), &cancel)
+                    .await
+                    .is_err()
+                {
+                    break;
+                }
+
                if random_init_delay(period, &cancel).await.is_err() {
                    break;
                }
@@ -531,6 +540,21 @@ pub(crate) async fn random_init_delay(
    }
 }

+/// Delays GC by defaul lease length at restart.
+///
+/// We do this as the leases mapping are not persisted to disk. By delaying GC by default
+/// length, we gurantees that all the leases we granted before the restart will expire
+/// when we run GC for the first time after the restart.
+pub(crate) async fn delay_by_lease_length(
+    length: Duration,
+    cancel: &CancellationToken,
+) -> Result<(), Cancelled> {
+    match tokio::time::timeout(length, cancel.cancelled()).await {
+        Ok(_) => Err(Cancelled),
+        Err(_) => Ok(()),
+    }
+}
+
 /// Attention: the `task` and `period` beocme labels of a pageserver-wide prometheus metric.
 pub(crate) fn warn_when_period_overrun(
    elapsed: Duration,
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ use utils::{
    vec_map::VecMap,
 };

-use std::ops::{Deref, Range};
 use std::pin::pin;
 use std::sync::atomic::Ordering as AtomicOrdering;
 use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex, RwLock, Weak};
@@ -61,7 +60,12 @@ use std::{
    cmp::{max, min, Ordering},
    ops::ControlFlow,
 };
+use std::{
+    collections::btree_map::Entry,
+    ops::{Deref, Range},
+};

+use crate::metrics::GetKind;
 use crate::pgdatadir_mapping::MAX_AUX_FILE_V2_DELTAS;
 use crate::{
    aux_file::AuxFileSizeEstimator,
@@ -75,7 +79,6 @@ use crate::{
    disk_usage_eviction_task::DiskUsageEvictionInfo,
    pgdatadir_mapping::CollectKeySpaceError,
 };
-use crate::{deletion_queue::DeletionQueueClient, metrics::GetKind};
 use crate::{
    disk_usage_eviction_task::finite_f32,
    tenant::storage_layer::{
@@ -98,9 +101,7 @@ use crate::{

 use crate::config::PageServerConf;
 use crate::keyspace::{KeyPartitioning, KeySpace};
-use crate::metrics::{
-    TimelineMetrics, MATERIALIZED_PAGE_CACHE_HIT, MATERIALIZED_PAGE_CACHE_HIT_DIRECT,
-};
+use crate::metrics::TimelineMetrics;
 use crate::pgdatadir_mapping::CalculateLogicalSizeError;
 use crate::tenant::config::TenantConfOpt;
 use pageserver_api::reltag::RelTag;
@@ -117,7 +118,6 @@ use utils::{
    simple_rcu::{Rcu, RcuReadGuard},
 };

-use crate::page_cache;
 use crate::repository::GcResult;
 use crate::repository::{Key, Value};
 use crate::task_mgr;
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ use self::layer_manager::LayerManager;
 use self::logical_size::LogicalSize;
 use self::walreceiver::{WalReceiver, WalReceiverConf};

-use super::{config::TenantConf, storage_layer::VectoredValueReconstructState};
+use super::config::TenantConf;
 use super::{debug_assert_current_span_has_tenant_and_timeline_id, AttachedTenantConf};
 use super::{remote_timeline_client::index::IndexPart, storage_layer::LayerFringe};
 use super::{remote_timeline_client::RemoteTimelineClient, storage_layer::ReadableLayer};
@@ -205,7 +205,6 @@ fn drop_wlock<T>(rlock: tokio::sync::RwLockWriteGuard<'_, T>) {
 /// The outward-facing resources required to build a Timeline
 pub struct TimelineResources {
    pub remote_client: RemoteTimelineClient,
-    pub deletion_queue_client: DeletionQueueClient,
    pub timeline_get_throttle: Arc<
        crate::tenant::throttle::Throttle<&'static crate::metrics::tenant_throttling::TimelineGet>,
    >,
@@ -426,6 +425,14 @@ pub struct Timeline {

    /// Indicate whether aux file v2 storage is enabled.
    pub(crate) last_aux_file_policy: AtomicAuxFilePolicy,
+
+    /// Some test cases directly place keys into the timeline without actually modifying the directory
+    /// keys (i.e., DB_DIR). The test cases creating such keys will put the keyspaces here, so that
+    /// these keys won't get garbage-collected during compaction/GC. This field only modifies the dense
+    /// keyspace return value of `collect_keyspace`. For sparse keyspaces, use AUX keys for testing, and
+    /// in the future, add `extra_test_sparse_keyspace` if necessary.
+    #[cfg(test)]
+    pub(crate) extra_test_dense_keyspace: ArcSwap<KeySpace>,
 }

 pub struct WalReceiverInfo {
@@ -447,6 +454,9 @@ pub(crate) struct GcInfo {

    /// The cutoff coordinates, which are combined by selecting the minimum.
    pub(crate) cutoffs: GcCutoffs,
+
+    /// Leases granted to particular LSNs.
+    pub(crate) leases: BTreeMap<Lsn, LsnLease>,
 }

 impl GcInfo {
@@ -676,6 +686,7 @@ pub enum GetLogicalSizePriority {
 pub(crate) enum CompactFlags {
    ForceRepartition,
    ForceImageLayerCreation,
+    EnhancedGcBottomMostCompaction,
 }

 impl std::fmt::Debug for Timeline {
@@ -872,34 +883,13 @@ impl Timeline {
        // page_service.
        debug_assert!(!self.shard_identity.is_key_disposable(&key));

-        self.timeline_get_throttle.throttle(ctx, 1).await;
-
-        // Check the page cache. We will get back the most recent page with lsn <= `lsn`.
-        // The cached image can be returned directly if there is no WAL between the cached image
-        // and requested LSN. The cached image can also be used to reduce the amount of WAL needed
-        // for redo.
-        let cached_page_img = match self.lookup_cached_page(&key, lsn, ctx).await {
-            Some((cached_lsn, cached_img)) => {
-                match cached_lsn.cmp(&lsn) {
-                    Ordering::Less => {} // there might be WAL between cached_lsn and lsn, we need to check
-                    Ordering::Equal => {
-                        MATERIALIZED_PAGE_CACHE_HIT_DIRECT.inc();
-                        return Ok(cached_img); // exact LSN match, return the image
-                    }
-                    Ordering::Greater => {
-                        unreachable!("the returned lsn should never be after the requested lsn")
-                    }
-                }
-                Some((cached_lsn, cached_img))
-            }
-            None => None,
-        };
+        self.timeline_get_throttle.throttle(ctx, 1).await; // throttling should prob be sensitive to self cancellation, but really, caller should tokio::select! us

        match self.conf.get_impl {
            GetImpl::Legacy => {
                let reconstruct_state = ValueReconstructState {
                    records: Vec::new(),
-                    img: cached_page_img,
+                    img: None,
                };

                self.get_impl(key, lsn, reconstruct_state, ctx).await
@@ -913,13 +903,6 @@ impl Timeline {
                // entry returned above.
                let mut reconstruct_state = ValuesReconstructState::new();

-                // Only add the cached image to the reconstruct state when it exists.
-                if cached_page_img.is_some() {
-                    let mut key_state = VectoredValueReconstructState::default();
-                    key_state.img = cached_page_img;
-                    reconstruct_state.keys.insert(key, Ok(key_state));
-                }
-
                let vectored_res = self
                    .get_vectored_impl(keyspace.clone(), lsn, &mut reconstruct_state, ctx)
                    .await;
@@ -1114,7 +1097,6 @@ impl Timeline {
    /// scan iterator interface. We could optimize this interface later to avoid some checks in the vectored
    /// get path to maintain and split the probing and to-be-probe keyspace. We also need to ensure that
    /// the scan operation will not cause OOM in the future.
-    #[allow(dead_code)]
    pub(crate) async fn scan(
        &self,
        keyspace: KeySpace,
@@ -1548,17 +1530,46 @@ impl Timeline {
        Ok(())
    }

-    /// Obtains a temporary lease blocking garbage collection for the given LSN
+    /// Obtains a temporary lease blocking garbage collection for the given LSN.
+    ///
+    /// This function will error if the requesting LSN is less than the `latest_gc_cutoff_lsn` and there is also
+    /// no existing lease to renew. If there is an existing lease in the map, the lease will be renewed only if
+    /// the request extends the lease. The returned lease is therefore the maximum between the existing lease and
+    /// the requesting lease.
    pub(crate) fn make_lsn_lease(
        &self,
-        _lsn: Lsn,
+        lsn: Lsn,
+        length: Duration,
        _ctx: &RequestContext,
    ) -> anyhow::Result<LsnLease> {
-        const LEASE_LENGTH: Duration = Duration::from_secs(5 * 60);
-        let lease = LsnLease {
-            valid_until: SystemTime::now() + LEASE_LENGTH,
+        let lease = {
+            let mut gc_info = self.gc_info.write().unwrap();
+
+            let valid_until = SystemTime::now() + length;
+
+            let entry = gc_info.leases.entry(lsn);
+
+            let lease = {
+                if let Entry::Occupied(mut occupied) = entry {
+                    let existing_lease = occupied.get_mut();
+                    if valid_until > existing_lease.valid_until {
+                        existing_lease.valid_until = valid_until;
+                    }
+                    existing_lease.clone()
+                } else {
+                    // Reject already GC-ed LSN (lsn < latest_gc_cutoff)
+                    let latest_gc_cutoff_lsn = self.get_latest_gc_cutoff_lsn();
+                    if lsn < *latest_gc_cutoff_lsn {
+                        bail!("tried to request a page version that was garbage collected. requested at {} gc cutoff {}", lsn, *latest_gc_cutoff_lsn);
+                    }
+
+                    entry.or_insert(LsnLease { valid_until }).clone()
+                }
+            };
+
+            lease
        };
-        // TODO: dummy implementation
+
        Ok(lease)
    }

@@ -2075,6 +2086,24 @@ const REPARTITION_FREQ_IN_CHECKPOINT_DISTANCE: u64 = 10;

 // Private functions
 impl Timeline {
+    pub(crate) fn get_lsn_lease_length(&self) -> Duration {
+        let tenant_conf = self.tenant_conf.load();
+        tenant_conf
+            .tenant_conf
+            .lsn_lease_length
+            .unwrap_or(self.conf.default_tenant_conf.lsn_lease_length)
+    }
+
+    // TODO(yuchen): remove unused flag after implementing https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8072
+    #[allow(unused)]
+    pub(crate) fn get_lsn_lease_length_for_ts(&self) -> Duration {
+        let tenant_conf = self.tenant_conf.load();
+        tenant_conf
+            .tenant_conf
+            .lsn_lease_length_for_ts
+            .unwrap_or(self.conf.default_tenant_conf.lsn_lease_length_for_ts)
+    }
+
    pub(crate) fn get_switch_aux_file_policy(&self) -> AuxFilePolicy {
        let tenant_conf = self.tenant_conf.load();
        tenant_conf
@@ -2344,6 +2373,9 @@ impl Timeline {
                aux_file_size_estimator: AuxFileSizeEstimator::new(aux_file_metrics),

                last_aux_file_policy: AtomicAuxFilePolicy::new(aux_file_policy),
+
+                #[cfg(test)]
+                extra_test_dense_keyspace: ArcSwap::new(Arc::new(KeySpace::default())),
            };
            result.repartition_threshold =
                result.get_checkpoint_distance() / REPARTITION_FREQ_IN_CHECKPOINT_DISTANCE;
@@ -3177,7 +3209,6 @@ impl Timeline {
                ValueReconstructResult::Continue => {
                    // If we reached an earlier cached page image, we're done.
                    if cont_lsn == cached_lsn + 1 {
-                        MATERIALIZED_PAGE_CACHE_HIT.inc_by(1);
                        return Ok(traversal_path);
                    }
                    if let Some(prev) = prev_lsn {
@@ -3551,26 +3582,6 @@ impl Timeline {
        })
    }

-    /// # Cancel-safety
-    ///
-    /// This method is cancellation-safe.
-    async fn lookup_cached_page(
-        &self,
-        key: &Key,
-        lsn: Lsn,
-        ctx: &RequestContext,
-    ) -> Option<(Lsn, Bytes)> {
-        let cache = page_cache::get();
-
-        // FIXME: It's pointless to check the cache for things that are not 8kB pages.
-        // We should look at the key to determine if it's a cacheable object
-        let (lsn, read_guard) = cache
-            .lookup_materialized_page(self.tenant_shard_id, self.timeline_id, key, lsn, ctx)
-            .await?;
-        let img = Bytes::from(read_guard.to_vec());
-        Some((lsn, img))
-    }
-
    async fn get_ready_ancestor_timeline(
        &self,
        ancestor: &Arc<Timeline>,
@@ -4812,7 +4823,7 @@ impl Timeline {
        pitr: Duration,
        cancel: &CancellationToken,
        ctx: &RequestContext,
-    ) -> anyhow::Result<GcCutoffs> {
+    ) -> Result<GcCutoffs, PageReconstructError> {
        let _timer = self
            .metrics
            .find_gc_cutoffs_histo
@@ -4897,13 +4908,25 @@ impl Timeline {
            return Err(GcError::TimelineCancelled);
        }

-        let (horizon_cutoff, pitr_cutoff, retain_lsns) = {
+        let (horizon_cutoff, pitr_cutoff, retain_lsns, max_lsn_with_valid_lease) = {
            let gc_info = self.gc_info.read().unwrap();

            let horizon_cutoff = min(gc_info.cutoffs.horizon, self.get_disk_consistent_lsn());
            let pitr_cutoff = gc_info.cutoffs.pitr;
            let retain_lsns = gc_info.retain_lsns.clone();
-            (horizon_cutoff, pitr_cutoff, retain_lsns)
+
+            // Gets the maximum LSN that holds the valid lease.
+            //
+            // Caveat: `refresh_gc_info` is in charged of updating the lease map.
+            // Here, we do not check for stale leases again.
+            let max_lsn_with_valid_lease = gc_info.leases.last_key_value().map(|(lsn, _)| *lsn);
+
+            (
+                horizon_cutoff,
+                pitr_cutoff,
+                retain_lsns,
+                max_lsn_with_valid_lease,
+            )
        };

        let mut new_gc_cutoff = Lsn::min(horizon_cutoff, pitr_cutoff);
@@ -4934,7 +4957,13 @@ impl Timeline {
            .set(Lsn::INVALID.0 as i64);

        let res = self
-            .gc_timeline(horizon_cutoff, pitr_cutoff, retain_lsns, new_gc_cutoff)
+            .gc_timeline(
+                horizon_cutoff,
+                pitr_cutoff,
+                retain_lsns,
+                max_lsn_with_valid_lease,
+                new_gc_cutoff,
+            )
            .instrument(
                info_span!("gc_timeline", timeline_id = %self.timeline_id, cutoff = %new_gc_cutoff),
            )
@@ -4951,6 +4980,7 @@ impl Timeline {
        horizon_cutoff: Lsn,
        pitr_cutoff: Lsn,
        retain_lsns: Vec<Lsn>,
+        max_lsn_with_valid_lease: Option<Lsn>,
        new_gc_cutoff: Lsn,
    ) -> Result<GcResult, GcError> {
        // FIXME: if there is an ongoing detach_from_ancestor, we should just skip gc
@@ -4999,7 +5029,8 @@ impl Timeline {
        // 1. it is older than cutoff LSN;
        // 2. it is older than PITR interval;
        // 3. it doesn't need to be retained for 'retain_lsns';
-        // 4. newer on-disk image layers cover the layer's whole key range
+        // 4. it does not need to be kept for LSNs holding valid leases.
+        // 5. newer on-disk image layers cover the layer's whole key range
        //
        // TODO holding a write lock is too agressive and avoidable
        let mut guard = self.layers.write().await;
@@ -5050,7 +5081,21 @@ impl Timeline {
                }
            }

-            // 4. Is there a later on-disk layer for this relation?
+            // 4. Is there a valid lease that requires us to keep this layer?
+            if let Some(lsn) = &max_lsn_with_valid_lease {
+                // keep if layer start <= any of the lease
+                if &l.get_lsn_range().start <= lsn {
+                    debug!(
+                        "keeping {} because there is a valid lease preventing GC at {}",
+                        l.layer_name(),
+                        lsn,
+                    );
+                    result.layers_needed_by_leases += 1;
+                    continue 'outer;
+                }
+            }
+
+            // 5. Is there a later on-disk layer for this relation?
            //
            // The end-LSN is exclusive, while disk_consistent_lsn is
            // inclusive. For example, if disk_consistent_lsn is 100, it is
@@ -5183,8 +5228,6 @@ impl Timeline {
                    trace!("found {} WAL records that will init the page for {} at {}, performing WAL redo", data.records.len(), key, request_lsn);
                };

-                let last_rec_lsn = data.records.last().unwrap().0;
-
                let img = match self
                    .walredo_mgr
                    .as_ref()
@@ -5198,23 +5241,6 @@ impl Timeline {
                    Err(e) => return Err(PageReconstructError::WalRedo(e)),
                };

-                if img.len() == page_cache::PAGE_SZ {
-                    let cache = page_cache::get();
-                    if let Err(e) = cache
-                        .memorize_materialized_page(
-                            self.tenant_shard_id,
-                            self.timeline_id,
-                            key,
-                            last_rec_lsn,
-                            &img,
-                        )
-                        .await
-                        .context("Materialized page memoization failed")
-                    {
-                        return Err(PageReconstructError::from(e));
-                    }
-                }
-
                Ok(img)
            }
        }
@@ -5428,6 +5454,11 @@ impl Timeline {
        self.last_record_lsn.advance(new_lsn);
    }

+    #[cfg(test)]
+    pub(super) fn force_set_disk_consistent_lsn(&self, new_value: Lsn) {
+        self.disk_consistent_lsn.store(new_value);
+    }
+
    /// Force create an image layer and place it into the layer map.
    ///
    /// DO NOT use this function directly. Use [`Tenant::branch_timeline_test_with_layers`]
@@ -5450,12 +5481,12 @@ impl Timeline {
        }
        images.sort_unstable_by(|(ka, _), (kb, _)| ka.cmp(kb));
        let min_key = *images.first().map(|(k, _)| k).unwrap();
-        let max_key = images.last().map(|(k, _)| k).unwrap().next();
+        let end_key = images.last().map(|(k, _)| k).unwrap().next();
        let mut image_layer_writer = ImageLayerWriter::new(
            self.conf,
            self.timeline_id,
            self.tenant_shard_id,
-            &(min_key..max_key),
+            &(min_key..end_key),
            lsn,
            ctx,
        )
@@ -5487,7 +5518,7 @@ impl Timeline {
        let last_record_lsn = self.get_last_record_lsn();
        deltas.sort_unstable_by(|(ka, la, _), (kb, lb, _)| (ka, la).cmp(&(kb, lb)));
        let min_key = *deltas.first().map(|(k, _, _)| k).unwrap();
-        let max_key = deltas.last().map(|(k, _, _)| k).unwrap().next();
+        let end_key = deltas.last().map(|(k, _, _)| k).unwrap().next();
        let min_lsn = *deltas.iter().map(|(_, lsn, _)| lsn).min().unwrap();
        let max_lsn = *deltas.iter().map(|(_, lsn, _)| lsn).max().unwrap();
        assert!(
@@ -5510,7 +5541,7 @@ impl Timeline {
        for (key, lsn, val) in deltas {
            delta_layer_writer.put_value(key, lsn, val, ctx).await?;
        }
-        let delta_layer = delta_layer_writer.finish(max_key, self, ctx).await?;
+        let delta_layer = delta_layer_writer.finish(end_key, self, ctx).await?;

        {
            let mut guard = self.layers.write().await;
@@ -5562,6 +5593,13 @@ impl Timeline {
        }
        Ok(layers)
    }
+
+    #[cfg(test)]
+    pub(crate) fn add_extra_test_dense_keyspace(&self, ks: KeySpace) {
+        let mut keyspace = self.extra_test_dense_keyspace.load().as_ref().clone();
+        keyspace.merge(&ks);
+        self.extra_test_dense_keyspace.store(Arc::new(keyspace));
+    }
 }

 type TraversalPathItem = (ValueReconstructResult, Lsn, TraversalId);
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline/compaction.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline/compaction.rs
@@ -47,10 +47,14 @@ impl Timeline {
    /// TODO: cancellation
    pub(crate) async fn compact_legacy(
        self: &Arc<Self>,
-        _cancel: &CancellationToken,
+        cancel: &CancellationToken,
        flags: EnumSet<CompactFlags>,
        ctx: &RequestContext,
    ) -> Result<(), CompactionError> {
+        if flags.contains(CompactFlags::EnhancedGcBottomMostCompaction) {
+            return self.compact_with_gc(cancel, ctx).await;
+        }
+
        // High level strategy for compaction / image creation:
        //
        // 1. First, calculate the desired "partitioning" of the
@@ -959,13 +963,20 @@ impl Timeline {
    /// the GC horizon without considering retain_lsns. Then, it does a full compaction over all these delta
    /// layers and image layers, which generates image layers on the gc horizon, drop deltas below gc horizon,
    /// and create delta layers with all deltas >= gc horizon.
-    #[cfg(test)]
    pub(crate) async fn compact_with_gc(
        self: &Arc<Self>,
        _cancel: &CancellationToken,
        ctx: &RequestContext,
    ) -> Result<(), CompactionError> {
        use crate::tenant::storage_layer::ValueReconstructState;
+        use std::collections::BTreeSet;
+
+        info!("running enhanced gc bottom-most compaction");
+
+        scopeguard::defer! {
+            info!("done enhanced gc bottom-most compaction");
+        };
+
        // Step 0: pick all delta layers + image layers below/intersect with the GC horizon.
        // The layer selection has the following properties:
        // 1. If a layer is in the selection, all layers below it are in the selection.
@@ -974,6 +985,11 @@ impl Timeline {
            let guard = self.layers.read().await;
            let layers = guard.layer_map();
            let gc_info = self.gc_info.read().unwrap();
+            if !gc_info.retain_lsns.is_empty() || !gc_info.leases.is_empty() {
+                return Err(CompactionError::Other(anyhow!(
+                    "enhanced legacy compaction currently does not support retain_lsns (branches)"
+                )));
+            }
            let gc_cutoff = Lsn::min(gc_info.cutoffs.horizon, gc_info.cutoffs.pitr);
            let mut selected_layers = Vec::new();
            // TODO: consider retain_lsns
@@ -985,21 +1001,36 @@ impl Timeline {
            }
            (selected_layers, gc_cutoff)
        };
+        info!(
+            "picked {} layers for compaction with gc_cutoff={}",
+            layer_selection.len(),
+            gc_cutoff
+        );
        // Step 1: (In the future) construct a k-merge iterator over all layers. For now, simply collect all keys + LSNs.
+        // Also, collect the layer information to decide when to split the new delta layers.
        let mut all_key_values = Vec::new();
+        let mut delta_split_points = BTreeSet::new();
        for layer in &layer_selection {
            all_key_values.extend(layer.load_key_values(ctx).await?);
+            let desc = layer.layer_desc();
+            if desc.is_delta() {
+                // TODO: is it correct to only record split points for deltas intersecting with the GC horizon? (exclude those below/above the horizon)
+                // so that we can avoid having too many small delta layers.
+                let key_range = desc.get_key_range();
+                delta_split_points.insert(key_range.start);
+                delta_split_points.insert(key_range.end);
+            }
        }
        // Key small to large, LSN low to high, if the same LSN has both image and delta due to the merge of delta layers and
-        // image layers, make image appear later than delta.
+        // image layers, make image appear before than delta.
        struct ValueWrapper<'a>(&'a crate::repository::Value);
        impl Ord for ValueWrapper<'_> {
            fn cmp(&self, other: &Self) -> std::cmp::Ordering {
                use crate::repository::Value;
                use std::cmp::Ordering;
                match (self.0, other.0) {
-                    (Value::Image(_), Value::WalRecord(_)) => Ordering::Greater,
-                    (Value::WalRecord(_), Value::Image(_)) => Ordering::Less,
+                    (Value::Image(_), Value::WalRecord(_)) => Ordering::Less,
+                    (Value::WalRecord(_), Value::Image(_)) => Ordering::Greater,
                    _ => Ordering::Equal,
                }
            }
@@ -1018,13 +1049,6 @@ impl Timeline {
        all_key_values.sort_by(|(k1, l1, v1), (k2, l2, v2)| {
            (k1, l1, ValueWrapper(v1)).cmp(&(k2, l2, ValueWrapper(v2)))
        });
-        let max_lsn = all_key_values
-            .iter()
-            .map(|(_, lsn, _)| lsn)
-            .max()
-            .copied()
-            .unwrap()
-            + 1;
        // Step 2: Produce images+deltas. TODO: ensure newly-produced delta does not overlap with other deltas.
        // Data of the same key.
        let mut accumulated_values = Vec::new();
@@ -1043,14 +1067,24 @@ impl Timeline {
            // We have a list of deltas/images. We want to create image layers while collect garbages.
            for (key, lsn, val) in accumulated_values.iter().rev() {
                if *lsn > horizon {
-                    keys_above_horizon.push((*key, *lsn, val.clone())); // TODO: ensure one LSN corresponds to either delta or image instead of both
+                    if let Some((_, prev_lsn, _)) = keys_above_horizon.last_mut() {
+                        if *prev_lsn == *lsn {
+                            // The case that we have an LSN with both data from the delta layer and the image layer. As
+                            // `ValueWrapper` ensures that an image is ordered before a delta at the same LSN, we simply
+                            // drop this delta and keep the image.
+                            //
+                            // For example, we have delta layer key1@0x10, key1@0x20, and image layer key1@0x10, we will
+                            // keep the image for key1@0x10 and the delta for key1@0x20. key1@0x10 delta will be simply
+                            // dropped.
+                            continue;
+                        }
+                    }
+                    keys_above_horizon.push((*key, *lsn, val.clone()));
                } else if *lsn <= horizon {
                    match val {
                        crate::repository::Value::Image(image) => {
-                            if lsn <= &horizon {
-                                base_image = Some((*lsn, image.clone()));
-                                break;
-                            }
+                            base_image = Some((*lsn, image.clone()));
+                            break;
                        }
                        crate::repository::Value::WalRecord(wal) => {
                            delta_above_base_image.push((*lsn, wal.clone()));
@@ -1058,7 +1092,7 @@ impl Timeline {
                    }
                }
            }
-            delta_above_base_image.reverse();
+            // do not reverse delta_above_base_image, reconstruct state expects reversely-ordered records
            keys_above_horizon.reverse();
            let state = ValueReconstructState {
                img: base_image,
@@ -1068,15 +1102,59 @@ impl Timeline {
            Ok((keys_above_horizon, img))
        }

-        let mut delta_layer_writer = DeltaLayerWriter::new(
-            self.conf,
-            self.timeline_id,
-            self.tenant_shard_id,
-            all_key_values.first().unwrap().0,
-            gc_cutoff..max_lsn, // TODO: off by one?
-            ctx,
-        )
-        .await?;
+        async fn flush_deltas(
+            deltas: &mut Vec<(Key, Lsn, crate::repository::Value)>,
+            last_key: Key,
+            delta_split_points: &[Key],
+            current_delta_split_point: &mut usize,
+            tline: &Arc<Timeline>,
+            gc_cutoff: Lsn,
+            ctx: &RequestContext,
+        ) -> anyhow::Result<Option<ResidentLayer>> {
+            // Check if we need to split the delta layer. We split at the original delta layer boundary to avoid
+            // overlapping layers.
+            //
+            // If we have a structure like this:
+            //
+            // | Delta 1 |         | Delta 4 |
+            // |---------| Delta 2 |---------|
+            // | Delta 3 |         | Delta 5 |
+            //
+            // And we choose to compact delta 2+3+5. We will get an overlapping delta layer with delta 1+4.
+            // A simple solution here is to split the delta layers using the original boundary, while this
+            // might produce a lot of small layers. This should be improved and fixed in the future.
+            let mut need_split = false;
+            while *current_delta_split_point < delta_split_points.len()
+                && last_key >= delta_split_points[*current_delta_split_point]
+            {
+                *current_delta_split_point += 1;
+                need_split = true;
+            }
+            if !need_split {
+                return Ok(None);
+            }
+            let deltas = std::mem::take(deltas);
+            if deltas.is_empty() {
+                return Ok(None);
+            }
+            let end_lsn = deltas.iter().map(|(_, lsn, _)| lsn).max().copied().unwrap() + 1;
+            let mut delta_layer_writer = DeltaLayerWriter::new(
+                tline.conf,
+                tline.timeline_id,
+                tline.tenant_shard_id,
+                deltas.first().unwrap().0,
+                gc_cutoff..end_lsn,
+                ctx,
+            )
+            .await?;
+            let key_end = deltas.last().unwrap().0.next();
+            for (key, lsn, val) in deltas {
+                delta_layer_writer.put_value(key, lsn, val, ctx).await?;
+            }
+            let delta_layer = delta_layer_writer.finish(key_end, tline, ctx).await?;
+            Ok(Some(delta_layer))
+        }
+
        let mut image_layer_writer = ImageLayerWriter::new(
            self.conf,
            self.timeline_id,
@@ -1087,6 +1165,10 @@ impl Timeline {
        )
        .await?;

+        let mut delta_values = Vec::new();
+        let delta_split_points = delta_split_points.into_iter().collect_vec();
+        let mut current_delta_split_point = 0;
+        let mut delta_layers = Vec::new();
        for item @ (key, _, _) in &all_key_values {
            if &last_key == key {
                accumulated_values.push(item);
@@ -1094,34 +1176,63 @@ impl Timeline {
                let (deltas, image) =
                    flush_accumulated_states(self, last_key, &accumulated_values, gc_cutoff)
                        .await?;
+                // Put the image into the image layer. Currently we have a single big layer for the compaction.
                image_layer_writer.put_image(last_key, image, ctx).await?;
-                for (key, lsn, val) in deltas {
-                    delta_layer_writer.put_value(key, lsn, val, ctx).await?;
-                }
+                delta_values.extend(deltas);
+                delta_layers.extend(
+                    flush_deltas(
+                        &mut delta_values,
+                        last_key,
+                        &delta_split_points,
+                        &mut current_delta_split_point,
+                        self,
+                        gc_cutoff,
+                        ctx,
+                    )
+                    .await?,
+                );
                accumulated_values.clear();
                accumulated_values.push(item);
                last_key = *key;
            }
        }
+
+        // TODO: move this part to the loop body
        let (deltas, image) =
            flush_accumulated_states(self, last_key, &accumulated_values, gc_cutoff).await?;
+        // Put the image into the image layer. Currently we have a single big layer for the compaction.
        image_layer_writer.put_image(last_key, image, ctx).await?;
-        for (key, lsn, val) in deltas {
-            delta_layer_writer.put_value(key, lsn, val, ctx).await?;
-        }
-        accumulated_values.clear();
-        // TODO: split layers
-        let delta_layer = delta_layer_writer.finish(last_key, self, ctx).await?;
+        delta_values.extend(deltas);
+        delta_layers.extend(
+            flush_deltas(
+                &mut delta_values,
+                last_key,
+                &delta_split_points,
+                &mut current_delta_split_point,
+                self,
+                gc_cutoff,
+                ctx,
+            )
+            .await?,
+        );
+
        let image_layer = image_layer_writer.finish(self, ctx).await?;
+        info!(
+            "produced {} delta layers and {} image layers",
+            delta_layers.len(),
+            1
+        );
+        let mut compact_to = Vec::new();
+        compact_to.extend(delta_layers);
+        compact_to.push(image_layer);
        // Step 3: Place back to the layer map.
        {
            let mut guard = self.layers.write().await;
-            guard.finish_gc_compaction(
-                &layer_selection,
-                &[delta_layer.clone(), image_layer.clone()],
-                &self.metrics,
-            )
+            guard.finish_gc_compaction(&layer_selection, &compact_to, &self.metrics)
        };
+
+        self.remote_client
+            .schedule_compaction_update(&layer_selection, &compact_to)?;
        Ok(())
    }
 }
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline/delete.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline/delete.rs
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ use utils::{crashsafe, fs_ext, id::TimelineId, pausable_failpoint};

 use crate::{
    config::PageServerConf,
-    deletion_queue::DeletionQueueClient,
    task_mgr::{self, TaskKind},
    tenant::{
        metadata::TimelineMetadata,
@@ -256,14 +255,12 @@ impl DeleteTimelineFlow {
    }

    /// Shortcut to create Timeline in stopping state and spawn deletion task.
-    /// See corresponding parts of [`crate::tenant::delete::DeleteTenantFlow`]
    #[instrument(skip_all, fields(%timeline_id))]
    pub async fn resume_deletion(
        tenant: Arc<Tenant>,
        timeline_id: TimelineId,
        local_metadata: &TimelineMetadata,
        remote_client: RemoteTimelineClient,
-        deletion_queue_client: DeletionQueueClient,
    ) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
        // Note: here we even skip populating layer map. Timeline is essentially uninitialized.
        // RemoteTimelineClient is the only functioning part.
@@ -274,7 +271,6 @@ impl DeleteTimelineFlow {
                None, // Ancestor is not needed for deletion.
                TimelineResources {
                    remote_client,
-                    deletion_queue_client,
                    timeline_get_throttle: tenant.timeline_get_throttle.clone(),
                },
                // Important. We dont pass ancestor above because it can be missing.
@@ -423,10 +419,6 @@ impl DeleteTimelineFlow {
        Ok(())
    }

-    pub(crate) fn is_finished(&self) -> bool {
-        matches!(self, Self::Finished)
-    }
-
    pub(crate) fn is_not_started(&self) -> bool {
        matches!(self, Self::NotStarted)
    }
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline/layer_manager.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline/layer_manager.rs
@@ -227,7 +227,6 @@ impl LayerManager {
    }

    /// Called when a GC-compaction is completed.
-    #[cfg(test)]
    pub(crate) fn finish_gc_compaction(
        &mut self,
        compact_from: &[Layer],
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline/walreceiver/walreceiver_connection.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline/walreceiver/walreceiver_connection.rs
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ pub(super) async fn handle_walreceiver_connection(

    // prevent timeline shutdown from finishing until we have exited
    let _guard = timeline.gate.enter().map_err(|e| match e {
-        GateError::GateClosed => WalReceiverError::ClosedGate,
+        GateError::GateClosed => WalReceiverError::ClosedGate, // this one might be candidate
    })?;
    // This function spawns a side-car task (WalReceiverConnectionPoller).
    // Get its gate guard now as well.
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/vectored_blob_io.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/vectored_blob_io.rs
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ use std::num::NonZeroUsize;

 use bytes::BytesMut;
 use pageserver_api::key::Key;
+use tokio_epoll_uring::BoundedBuf;
 use utils::lsn::Lsn;
 use utils::vec_map::VecMap;

@@ -77,7 +78,7 @@ pub(crate) struct VectoredReadBuilder {
    start: u64,
    end: u64,
    blobs_at: VecMap<u64, BlobMeta>,
-    max_read_size: usize,
+    max_read_size: Option<usize>,
 }

 impl VectoredReadBuilder {
@@ -90,7 +91,7 @@ impl VectoredReadBuilder {
        start_offset: u64,
        end_offset: u64,
        meta: BlobMeta,
-        max_read_size: usize,
+        max_read_size: Option<usize>,
    ) -> Self {
        let mut blobs_at = VecMap::default();
        blobs_at
@@ -111,7 +112,13 @@ impl VectoredReadBuilder {
    pub(crate) fn extend(&mut self, start: u64, end: u64, meta: BlobMeta) -> VectoredReadExtended {
        tracing::trace!(start, end, "trying to extend");
        let size = (end - start) as usize;
-        if self.end == start && self.size() + size <= self.max_read_size {
+        if self.end == start && {
+            if let Some(max_read_size) = self.max_read_size {
+                self.size() + size <= max_read_size
+            } else {
+                true
+            }
+        } {
            self.end = end;
            self.blobs_at
                .append(start, meta)
@@ -157,7 +164,7 @@ pub struct VectoredReadPlanner {
    // Arguments for previous blob passed into [`VectoredReadPlanner::handle`]
    prev: Option<(Key, Lsn, u64, BlobFlag)>,

-    max_read_size: usize,
+    max_read_size: Option<usize>,
 }

 impl VectoredReadPlanner {
@@ -165,7 +172,20 @@ impl VectoredReadPlanner {
        Self {
            blobs: BTreeMap::new(),
            prev: None,
-            max_read_size,
+            max_read_size: Some(max_read_size),
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// This function should *only* be used if the caller has a way to control the limit. e.g., in [`StreamingVectoredReadPlanner`],
+    /// it uses the vectored read planner to avoid duplicated logic on handling blob start/end, while expecting the vectored
+    /// read planner to give a single read to a continuous range of bytes in the image layer. Therefore, it does not need the
+    /// code path to split reads into chunks of `max_read_size`, and controls the read size itself.
+    #[cfg(test)]
+    pub(crate) fn new_caller_controlled_max_limit() -> Self {
+        Self {
+            blobs: BTreeMap::new(),
+            prev: None,
+            max_read_size: None,
        }
    }

@@ -297,8 +317,9 @@ impl<'a> VectoredBlobReader<'a> {
        );
        let buf = self
            .file
-            .read_exact_at_n(buf, read.start, read.size(), ctx)
-            .await?;
+            .read_exact_at(buf.slice(0..read.size()), read.start, ctx)
+            .await?
+            .into_inner();

        let blobs_at = read.blobs_at.as_slice();
        let start_offset = blobs_at.first().expect("VectoredRead is never empty").0;
@@ -354,6 +375,87 @@ impl<'a> VectoredBlobReader<'a> {
    }
 }

+/// Read planner used in [`crate::tenant::storage_layer::image_layer::ImageLayerIterator`]. It provides a streaming API for
+/// getting read blobs. It returns a batch when `handle` gets called and when the current key would exceed the read_size and
+/// max_cnt constraints. Underlying it uses [`VectoredReadPlanner`].
+#[cfg(test)]
+pub struct StreamingVectoredReadPlanner {
+    planner: VectoredReadPlanner,
+    /// Max read size per batch
+    max_read_size: u64,
+    /// Max item count per batch
+    max_cnt: usize,
+    /// The first offset of this batch
+    this_batch_first_offset: Option<u64>,
+    /// Size of the current batch
+    cnt: usize,
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+impl StreamingVectoredReadPlanner {
+    pub fn new(max_read_size: u64, max_cnt: usize) -> Self {
+        assert!(max_cnt > 0);
+        assert!(max_read_size > 0);
+        Self {
+            // We want to have exactly one read syscall (plus several others for index lookup) for each `next_batch` call.
+            // Therefore, we enforce `self.max_read_size` by ourselves instead of using the VectoredReadPlanner's capability,
+            // to avoid splitting into two I/Os.
+            planner: VectoredReadPlanner::new_caller_controlled_max_limit(),
+            max_cnt,
+            max_read_size,
+            this_batch_first_offset: None,
+            cnt: 0,
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn emit(&mut self, this_batch_first_offset: u64) -> VectoredRead {
+        let planner = std::mem::replace(
+            &mut self.planner,
+            VectoredReadPlanner::new_caller_controlled_max_limit(),
+        );
+        self.this_batch_first_offset = Some(this_batch_first_offset);
+        self.cnt = 1;
+        let mut batch = planner.finish();
+        assert_eq!(batch.len(), 1, "should have exactly one read batch");
+        batch.pop().unwrap()
+    }
+
+    pub fn handle(
+        &mut self,
+        key: Key,
+        lsn: Lsn,
+        offset: u64,
+        flag: BlobFlag,
+    ) -> Option<VectoredRead> {
+        if let Some(begin_offset) = self.this_batch_first_offset {
+            // Each batch will have at least one item b/c `self.this_batch_first_offset` is set
+            // after one item gets processed
+            if offset - begin_offset > self.max_read_size {
+                self.planner.handle_range_end(offset); // End the current batch with the offset
+                let batch = self.emit(offset); // Produce a batch
+                self.planner.handle(key, lsn, offset, flag); // Add this key to the next batch
+                return Some(batch);
+            }
+        } else {
+            self.this_batch_first_offset = Some(offset)
+        }
+        if self.cnt >= self.max_cnt {
+            self.planner.handle_range_end(offset); // End the current batch with the offset
+            let batch = self.emit(offset); // Produce a batch
+            self.planner.handle(key, lsn, offset, flag); // Add this key to the next batch
+            return Some(batch);
+        }
+        self.planner.handle(key, lsn, offset, flag); // Add this key to the current batch
+        self.cnt += 1;
+        None
+    }
+
+    pub fn handle_range_end(&mut self, offset: u64) -> VectoredRead {
+        self.planner.handle_range_end(offset);
+        self.emit(offset)
+    }
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
    use super::*;
--- a/pageserver/src/virtual_file.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/virtual_file.rs
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 use crate::context::RequestContext;
 use crate::metrics::{StorageIoOperation, STORAGE_IO_SIZE, STORAGE_IO_TIME_METRIC};

-use crate::page_cache::PageWriteGuard;
+use crate::page_cache::{PageWriteGuard, PAGE_SZ};
 use crate::tenant::TENANTS_SEGMENT_NAME;
 use camino::{Utf8Path, Utf8PathBuf};
 use once_cell::sync::OnceCell;
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ pub(crate) mod owned_buffers_io {
    //! but for the time being we're proving out the primitives in the neon.git repo
    //! for faster iteration.

+    pub(crate) mod slice;
    pub(crate) mod write;
    pub(crate) mod util {
        pub(crate) mod size_tracking_writer;
@@ -143,16 +144,17 @@ struct SlotInner {
 /// Impl of [`tokio_epoll_uring::IoBuf`] and [`tokio_epoll_uring::IoBufMut`] for [`PageWriteGuard`].
 struct PageWriteGuardBuf {
    page: PageWriteGuard<'static>,
-    init_up_to: usize,
 }
 // Safety: the [`PageWriteGuard`] gives us exclusive ownership of the page cache slot,
 // and the location remains stable even if [`Self`] or the [`PageWriteGuard`] is moved.
+// Page cache pages are zero-initialized, so, wrt uninitialized memory we're good.
+// (Page cache tracks separately whether the contents are valid, see `PageWriteGuard::mark_valid`.)
 unsafe impl tokio_epoll_uring::IoBuf for PageWriteGuardBuf {
    fn stable_ptr(&self) -> *const u8 {
        self.page.as_ptr()
    }
    fn bytes_init(&self) -> usize {
-        self.init_up_to
+        self.page.len()
    }
    fn bytes_total(&self) -> usize {
        self.page.len()
@@ -166,8 +168,8 @@ unsafe impl tokio_epoll_uring::IoBufMut for PageWriteGuardBuf {
    }

    unsafe fn set_init(&mut self, pos: usize) {
+        // There shouldn't really be any reason to call this API since bytes_init() == bytes_total().
        assert!(pos <= self.page.len());
-        self.init_up_to = pos;
    }
 }

@@ -585,37 +587,37 @@ impl VirtualFile {
        Ok(self.pos)
    }

-    pub async fn read_exact_at<B>(
+    /// Read the file contents in range `offset..(offset + slice.bytes_total())` into `slice[0..slice.bytes_total()]`.
+    ///
+    /// The returned `Slice<Buf>` is equivalent to the input `slice`, i.e., it's the same view into the same buffer.
+    pub async fn read_exact_at<Buf>(
        &self,
-        buf: B,
+        slice: Slice<Buf>,
        offset: u64,
        ctx: &RequestContext,
-    ) -> Result<B, Error>
+    ) -> Result<Slice<Buf>, Error>
    where
-        B: IoBufMut + Send,
+        Buf: IoBufMut + Send,
    {
-        let (buf, res) = read_exact_at_impl(buf, offset, None, |buf, offset| {
-            self.read_at(buf, offset, ctx)
-        })
-        .await;
-        res.map(|()| buf)
-    }
+        let assert_we_return_original_bounds = if cfg!(debug_assertions) {
+            Some((slice.stable_ptr() as usize, slice.bytes_total()))
+        } else {
+            None
+        };

-    pub async fn read_exact_at_n<B>(
-        &self,
-        buf: B,
-        offset: u64,
-        count: usize,
-        ctx: &RequestContext,
-    ) -> Result<B, Error>
-    where
-        B: IoBufMut + Send,
-    {
-        let (buf, res) = read_exact_at_impl(buf, offset, Some(count), |buf, offset| {
-            self.read_at(buf, offset, ctx)
-        })
-        .await;
-        res.map(|()| buf)
+        let original_bounds = slice.bounds();
+        let (buf, res) =
+            read_exact_at_impl(slice, offset, |buf, offset| self.read_at(buf, offset, ctx)).await;
+        let res = res.map(|_| buf.slice(original_bounds));
+
+        if let Some(original_bounds) = assert_we_return_original_bounds {
+            if let Ok(slice) = &res {
+                let returned_bounds = (slice.stable_ptr() as usize, slice.bytes_total());
+                assert_eq!(original_bounds, returned_bounds);
+            }
+        }
+
+        res
    }

    /// Like [`Self::read_exact_at`] but for [`PageWriteGuard`].
@@ -625,13 +627,11 @@ impl VirtualFile {
        offset: u64,
        ctx: &RequestContext,
    ) -> Result<PageWriteGuard<'static>, Error> {
-        let buf = PageWriteGuardBuf {
-            page,
-            init_up_to: 0,
-        };
-        let res = self.read_exact_at(buf, offset, ctx).await;
-        res.map(|PageWriteGuardBuf { page, .. }| page)
-            .map_err(|e| Error::new(ErrorKind::Other, e))
+        let buf = PageWriteGuardBuf { page }.slice_full();
+        debug_assert_eq!(buf.bytes_total(), PAGE_SZ);
+        self.read_exact_at(buf, offset, ctx)
+            .await
+            .map(|slice| slice.into_inner().page)
    }

    // Copied from https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.72.0/src/std/os/unix/fs.rs.html#219-235
@@ -722,14 +722,14 @@ impl VirtualFile {
        (buf, Ok(n))
    }

-    pub(crate) async fn read_at<B>(
+    pub(crate) async fn read_at<Buf>(
        &self,
-        buf: B,
+        buf: tokio_epoll_uring::Slice<Buf>,
        offset: u64,
        _ctx: &RequestContext, /* TODO: use for metrics: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/6107 */
-    ) -> (B, Result<usize, Error>)
+    ) -> (tokio_epoll_uring::Slice<Buf>, Result<usize, Error>)
    where
-        B: tokio_epoll_uring::BoundedBufMut + Send,
+        Buf: tokio_epoll_uring::IoBufMut + Send,
    {
        let file_guard = match self.lock_file().await {
            Ok(file_guard) => file_guard,
@@ -781,26 +781,16 @@ impl VirtualFile {
 }

 // Adapted from https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.72.0/src/std/os/unix/fs.rs.html#117-135
-pub async fn read_exact_at_impl<B, F, Fut>(
-    buf: B,
+pub async fn read_exact_at_impl<Buf, F, Fut>(
+    mut buf: tokio_epoll_uring::Slice<Buf>,
    mut offset: u64,
-    count: Option<usize>,
    mut read_at: F,
-) -> (B, std::io::Result<()>)
+) -> (Buf, std::io::Result<()>)
 where
-    B: IoBufMut + Send,
-    F: FnMut(tokio_epoll_uring::Slice<B>, u64) -> Fut,
-    Fut: std::future::Future<Output = (tokio_epoll_uring::Slice<B>, std::io::Result<usize>)>,
+    Buf: IoBufMut + Send,
+    F: FnMut(tokio_epoll_uring::Slice<Buf>, u64) -> Fut,
+    Fut: std::future::Future<Output = (tokio_epoll_uring::Slice<Buf>, std::io::Result<usize>)>,
 {
-    let mut buf: tokio_epoll_uring::Slice<B> = match count {
-        Some(count) => {
-            assert!(count <= buf.bytes_total());
-            assert!(count > 0);
-            buf.slice(..count) // may include uninitialized memory
-        }
-        None => buf.slice_full(), // includes all the uninitialized memory
-    };
-
    while buf.bytes_total() != 0 {
        let res;
        (buf, res) = read_at(buf, offset).await;
@@ -882,7 +872,7 @@ mod test_read_exact_at_impl {

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_basic() {
-        let buf = Vec::with_capacity(5);
+        let buf = Vec::with_capacity(5).slice_full();
        let mock_read_at = Arc::new(tokio::sync::Mutex::new(MockReadAt {
            expectations: VecDeque::from(vec![Expectation {
                offset: 0,
@@ -890,7 +880,7 @@ mod test_read_exact_at_impl {
                result: Ok(vec![b'a', b'b', b'c', b'd', b'e']),
            }]),
        }));
-        let (buf, res) = read_exact_at_impl(buf, 0, None, |buf, offset| {
+        let (buf, res) = read_exact_at_impl(buf, 0, |buf, offset| {
            let mock_read_at = Arc::clone(&mock_read_at);
            async move { mock_read_at.lock().await.read_at(buf, offset).await }
        })
@@ -899,33 +889,13 @@ mod test_read_exact_at_impl {
        assert_eq!(buf, vec![b'a', b'b', b'c', b'd', b'e']);
    }

-    #[tokio::test]
-    async fn test_with_count() {
-        let buf = Vec::with_capacity(5);
-        let mock_read_at = Arc::new(tokio::sync::Mutex::new(MockReadAt {
-            expectations: VecDeque::from(vec![Expectation {
-                offset: 0,
-                bytes_total: 3,
-                result: Ok(vec![b'a', b'b', b'c']),
-            }]),
-        }));
-
-        let (buf, res) = read_exact_at_impl(buf, 0, Some(3), |buf, offset| {
-            let mock_read_at = Arc::clone(&mock_read_at);
-            async move { mock_read_at.lock().await.read_at(buf, offset).await }
-        })
-        .await;
-        assert!(res.is_ok());
-        assert_eq!(buf, vec![b'a', b'b', b'c']);
-    }
-
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_empty_buf_issues_no_syscall() {
-        let buf = Vec::new();
+        let buf = Vec::new().slice_full();
        let mock_read_at = Arc::new(tokio::sync::Mutex::new(MockReadAt {
            expectations: VecDeque::new(),
        }));
-        let (_buf, res) = read_exact_at_impl(buf, 0, None, |buf, offset| {
+        let (_buf, res) = read_exact_at_impl(buf, 0, |buf, offset| {
            let mock_read_at = Arc::clone(&mock_read_at);
            async move { mock_read_at.lock().await.read_at(buf, offset).await }
        })
@@ -935,7 +905,7 @@ mod test_read_exact_at_impl {

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_two_read_at_calls_needed_until_buf_filled() {
-        let buf = Vec::with_capacity(4);
+        let buf = Vec::with_capacity(4).slice_full();
        let mock_read_at = Arc::new(tokio::sync::Mutex::new(MockReadAt {
            expectations: VecDeque::from(vec![
                Expectation {
@@ -950,7 +920,7 @@ mod test_read_exact_at_impl {
                },
            ]),
        }));
-        let (buf, res) = read_exact_at_impl(buf, 0, None, |buf, offset| {
+        let (buf, res) = read_exact_at_impl(buf, 0, |buf, offset| {
            let mock_read_at = Arc::clone(&mock_read_at);
            async move { mock_read_at.lock().await.read_at(buf, offset).await }
        })
@@ -961,7 +931,7 @@ mod test_read_exact_at_impl {

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_eof_before_buffer_full() {
-        let buf = Vec::with_capacity(3);
+        let buf = Vec::with_capacity(3).slice_full();
        let mock_read_at = Arc::new(tokio::sync::Mutex::new(MockReadAt {
            expectations: VecDeque::from(vec![
                Expectation {
@@ -981,7 +951,7 @@ mod test_read_exact_at_impl {
                },
            ]),
        }));
-        let (_buf, res) = read_exact_at_impl(buf, 0, None, |buf, offset| {
+        let (_buf, res) = read_exact_at_impl(buf, 0, |buf, offset| {
            let mock_read_at = Arc::clone(&mock_read_at);
            async move { mock_read_at.lock().await.read_at(buf, offset).await }
        })
@@ -1051,27 +1021,29 @@ impl VirtualFile {
        ctx: &RequestContext,
    ) -> Result<crate::tenant::block_io::BlockLease<'_>, std::io::Error> {
        use crate::page_cache::PAGE_SZ;
-        let buf = vec![0; PAGE_SZ];
-        let buf = self
-            .read_exact_at(buf, blknum as u64 * (PAGE_SZ as u64), ctx)
+        let slice = Vec::with_capacity(PAGE_SZ).slice_full();
+        assert_eq!(slice.bytes_total(), PAGE_SZ);
+        let slice = self
+            .read_exact_at(slice, blknum as u64 * (PAGE_SZ as u64), ctx)
            .await?;
-        Ok(crate::tenant::block_io::BlockLease::Vec(buf))
+        Ok(crate::tenant::block_io::BlockLease::Vec(slice.into_inner()))
    }

    async fn read_to_end(&mut self, buf: &mut Vec<u8>, ctx: &RequestContext) -> Result<(), Error> {
        let mut tmp = vec![0; 128];
        loop {
-            let res;
-            (tmp, res) = self.read_at(tmp, self.pos, ctx).await;
+            let slice = tmp.slice(..128);
+            let (slice, res) = self.read_at(slice, self.pos, ctx).await;
            match res {
                Ok(0) => return Ok(()),
                Ok(n) => {
                    self.pos += n as u64;
-                    buf.extend_from_slice(&tmp[..n]);
+                    buf.extend_from_slice(&slice[..n]);
                }
                Err(ref e) if e.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::Interrupted => {}
                Err(e) => return Err(e),
            }
+            tmp = slice.into_inner();
        }
    }
 }
@@ -1185,6 +1157,7 @@ mod tests {
    use crate::task_mgr::TaskKind;

    use super::*;
+    use owned_buffers_io::slice::SliceExt;
    use rand::seq::SliceRandom;
    use rand::thread_rng;
    use rand::Rng;
@@ -1206,13 +1179,16 @@ mod tests {
    impl MaybeVirtualFile {
        async fn read_exact_at(
            &self,
-            mut buf: Vec<u8>,
+            mut slice: tokio_epoll_uring::Slice<Vec<u8>>,
            offset: u64,
            ctx: &RequestContext,
-        ) -> Result<Vec<u8>, Error> {
+        ) -> Result<tokio_epoll_uring::Slice<Vec<u8>>, Error> {
            match self {
-                MaybeVirtualFile::VirtualFile(file) => file.read_exact_at(buf, offset, ctx).await,
-                MaybeVirtualFile::File(file) => file.read_exact_at(&mut buf, offset).map(|()| buf),
+                MaybeVirtualFile::VirtualFile(file) => file.read_exact_at(slice, offset, ctx).await,
+                MaybeVirtualFile::File(file) => {
+                    let rust_slice: &mut [u8] = slice.as_mut_rust_slice_full_zeroed();
+                    file.read_exact_at(rust_slice, offset).map(|()| slice)
+                }
            }
        }
        async fn write_all_at<B: BoundedBuf<Buf = Buf>, Buf: IoBuf + Send>(
@@ -1286,9 +1262,12 @@ mod tests {
            len: usize,
            ctx: &RequestContext,
        ) -> Result<String, Error> {
-            let buf = vec![0; len];
-            let buf = self.read_exact_at(buf, pos, ctx).await?;
-            Ok(String::from_utf8(buf).unwrap())
+            let slice = Vec::with_capacity(len).slice_full();
+            assert_eq!(slice.bytes_total(), len);
+            let slice = self.read_exact_at(slice, pos, ctx).await?;
+            let vec = slice.into_inner();
+            assert_eq!(vec.len(), len);
+            Ok(String::from_utf8(vec).unwrap())
        }
    }

@@ -1507,7 +1486,11 @@ mod tests {
                let mut rng = rand::rngs::OsRng;
                for _ in 1..1000 {
                    let f = &files[rng.gen_range(0..files.len())];
-                    buf = f.read_exact_at(buf, 0, &ctx).await.unwrap();
+                    buf = f
+                        .read_exact_at(buf.slice_full(), 0, &ctx)
+                        .await
+                        .unwrap()
+                        .into_inner();
                    assert!(buf == SAMPLE);
                }
            });
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