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Alexey Kondratov 84b039e615 compute_ctl: Use 'fast' shutdown for Postgres termination (#8289)
## Problem

We currently use 'immediate' mode in the most commonly used shutdown
path, when the control plane calls a `compute_ctl` API to terminate
Postgres inside compute without waiting for the actual pod / VM
termination. Yet, 'immediate' shutdown doesn't create a shutdown
checkpoint and ROs have bad times figuring out the list of running xacts
during next start.

## Summary of changes

Use 'fast' mode, which creates a shutdown checkpoint that is important
for ROs to get a list of running xacts faster instead of going through
the CLOG. On the control plane side, we poll this `compute_ctl`
termination API for 10s, it should be enough as we don't really write
any data at checkpoint time. If it times out, we anyway switch to the
slow k8s-based termination.

See https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/server-shutdown.html for the
list of modes and signals.

The default VM shutdown hook already uses `fast` mode, see [1]

[1]
c9fd8d7693/vm-image-spec.yaml (L30-L31)

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