release-21.1: sql/gcjob: retry failed GC jobs #65962
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Backport 1/1 commits from #65910.
/cc @cockroachdb/release
In the previous implementation, failed GC jobs were not being retried regardless
whether the failure is permanent or transient. As a result, a GC job's failure
risked orphaned data, which cannot be reclaimed.
This commit adds a mechanism to retry failed GC jobs that are not permanent. No
limit is set on the number of retries. For the time being, the failure type is
determined based on the failure categorization of schema-change jobs. This
behavior is expected to change once exponential backoff mechanism is
implemented for failed jobs (#44594).
Release note: None
Fixes: #65000
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