Remove buffers_backend and buffers_backend_fsync from pg_stat_checkpointer

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

Commit: 74604a37f2f9eb6e626a4ff3cedd02aef5a2ad59
Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Date: 2023-10-27T02:16:39Z
Releases: 17.0
Remove buffers_backend and buffers_backend_fsync from pg_stat_checkpointer

Two attributes related to checkpointer statistics are removed in this
commit:
- buffers_backend, that counts the number of buffers written directly by
a backend.
- buffers_backend_fsync, that counts the number of times a backend had
to do fsync() by its own.

These are actually not checkpointer properties but backend properties.
Also, pg_stat_io provides a more accurate and equivalent report of these
numbers, by tracking all the I/O stats related to backends, including
writes and fsyncs, so storing them in pg_stat_checkpointer was
redundant.

Thanks also to Robert Haas and Amit Kapila for their input.

Bump catalog version.

Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230210004604.mcszbscsqs3bc5nx@awork3.anarazel.de

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