[WIP] VReplication Merge Workflows: add heuristic to handle valid duplicate key errors caused by unique key columns.

[rohit-nayak-ps]

Description

The core functionality that this PR adds is a backoff mechanism in case of ERDupKey errors. The stream that has the error, will wait for a specific period and retry, hoping that the other stream has moved forward. (See the related issue for when the error can happen).

Todos

• Identify merge workflows, for optimization, so that we don't backoff when it is not possible for another stream to unblock it!
• During backoff if a previous commit was dropped, apply it. When two row events get merged into a single transaction because of a dropped commit, and it is required that the first one has to be applied to unblock the erroring event which is part of the backoff, we end up with a deadlock and this backoff finally times out.
• Make batching dynamic per-stream so that it can be temporarily turned off during the backoff. Same reason as the previous item.
• Test coverage

Related Issue(s)

#14296

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Codecov Report

Attention: Patch coverage is 45.16129% with 85 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Project coverage is 67.33%. Comparing base (78f7db2) to head (79178e1).
Report is 3 commits behind head on main.

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
.../vt/vttablet/tabletmanager/vreplication/vplayer.go	43.33%	85 Missing ⚠️

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