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John Spray 91dd99038e pageserver/controller: enable tenant deletion without attachment (#7957)
## Problem

As described in #7952, the controller's attempt to reconcile a tenant
before finally deleting it can get hung up waiting for the compute
notification hook to accept updates.

The fact that we try and reconcile a tenant at all during deletion is
part of a more general design issue (#5080), where deletion was
implemented as an operation on attached tenant, requiring the tenant to
be attached in order to delete it, which is not in principle necessary.

Closes: #7952

## Summary of changes

- In the pageserver deletion API, only do the traditional deletion path
if the tenant is attached. If it's secondary, then tear down the
secondary location, and then do a remote delete. If it's not attached at
all, just do the remote delete.
- In the storage controller, instead of ensuring a tenant is attached
before deletion, do a best-effort detach of the tenant, and then call
into some arbitrary pageserver to issue a deletion of remote content.

The pageserver retains its existing delete behavior when invoked on
attached locations. We can remove this later when all users of the API
are updated to either do a detach-before-delete. This will enable
removing the "weird" code paths during startup that sometimes load a
tenant and then immediately delete it, and removing the deletion markers
on tenants.
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