## Problem
This test could occasionally trigger a "removing local file ... because
it has unexpected length log" when using the
`compact-shard-ancestors-persistent` failpoint is in use, which is
unexpected because that failpoint stops the process when the remote
metadata is in sync with local files.
It was because there are two shards on the same pageserver, and while
the one being compacted explicitly stops at the failpoint, another shard
was compacting in the background and failing at an unclean point. The
test intends to disable background compaction, but was mistakenly
revoking the value of `compaction_period` when it updated
`pitr_interval`.
Example failure:
https://neon-github-public-dev.s3.amazonaws.com/reports/pr-8123/9602976462/index.html#/testresult/7dd6165da7daef40
## Summary of changes
- Update `TENANT_CONF` in the test to use properly typed values, so that
it is usable in pageserver APIs as well as via neon_local.
- When updating tenant config with `pitr_interval`, retain the overrides
from the start of the test, so that there won't be any background
compaction going on during the test.
47fdf93cf0