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fixes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/6889
# Problem
The failure in the last 3 flaky runs on `main` is
```
test_runner/regress/test_remote_storage.py:460: in test_remote_timeline_client_calls_started_metric
churn("a", "b")
test_runner/regress/test_remote_storage.py:457: in churn
assert gc_result["layers_removed"] > 0
E assert 0 > 0
```
That's this code
cd449d66ea/test_runner/regress/test_remote_storage.py (L448-L460)
So, the test expects GC to remove some layers but the GC doesn't.
# Fix
My impression is that the VACUUM isn't re-using pages aggressively
enough, but I can't really prove that. Tried to analyze the layer map
dump but it's too complex.
So, this PR:
- Creates more churn by doing the overwrite twice.
- Forces image layer creation.
It also drive-by removes the redundant call to timeline_compact,
because, timeline_checkpoint already does that internally.