It had a couple of inherent races:
1) Even if compute is killed before the call, some more data might still arrive
to safekeepers after commit_lsn on them is polled, advancing it. Then checkpoint
on pageserver might not include this tail, and so upload of expected LSN won't
happen until one more checkpoint.
2) commit_lsn is updated asynchronously -- compute can commit transaction before
communicating commit_lsn to even single safekeeper (sync-safekeepers can be used
to forces the advancement). This makes semantics of
wait_for_sk_commit_lsn_to_reach_remote_storage quite complicated.
Replace it with last_flush_lsn_upload which
1) Learns last flush LSN on compute;
2) Waits for it to arrive to pageserver;
3) Checkpoints it;
4) Waits for the upload.
In some tests this keeps compute alive longer than before, but this doesn't seem
to be important.
There is a chance this fixes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/3209
31a3910fd9