Fixes#2480. For certain definition of "fixes".
This is something that should never happen. Sadly, it does happen,
albeit extremely rarely. This could be some weird cornercase we
haven't covered yet. Or it happens as a consequesnce of data
corruption or a crash recovery gone bad.
This is not a "real" fix as we don't know the root cause of the
incident reported in #2480. However, this makes sure the server does
not crash, but deals gracefully with the problem: The series in
question is quarantined, which even makes it available for forensics.
When using the chunking code in other projects (both Weave Prism and
ChronixDB ingester), you sometimes want to know how well you are
utilizing your chunks when closing/storing them.
This is a followup to https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pull/2011.
This publishes more of the methods and other names of the chunk code and
moves the chunk code to its own package. There's some unavoidable
ugliness: the chunk and chunkDesc metrics are used by both packages, so
I had to move them to the chunk package. That isn't great, but I don't
see how to do it better without a larger redesign of everything. Same
for the evict requests and some other types.