jobs: improve the status reporting of index backfill jobs #39773
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Before this change index backfill workers would write their updated
spans concurrently to the job's row which can potentially lead to blow
up in the jobs table. This PR is a first step in improving this. Instead
of updating the finished spans in each worker, we propagate this info to
the gateway node and do bulk updates there. Next step is to let the
workers run longer by not canceling them at 2 mins which is currently
done for historical reasons.
Fixes #36601.
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