ovsdb-idl: Provide API to disable set_db_change_aware request.

For ovsdb clients that are short-lived, e.g. when using
ovn-nbctl/ovn-sbctl to read some metrics from the OVN NB/SB server, they
don't really need to be aware of db changes, because they exit
immediately after getting the initial response for the requested data.
In such use cases, however, the clients still send 'set_db_change_aware'
request, which results in server side error logs when the server tries
to send out the response for the 'set_db_change_aware' request, because
at the moment the client that is supposed to receive the request has
already closed the connection and exited. E.g.:

2023-01-10T18:23:29.431Z|00007|jsonrpc|WARN|unix#3: receive error: Connection reset by peer
2023-01-10T18:23:29.431Z|00008|reconnect|WARN|unix#3: connection dropped (Connection reset by peer)

To avoid such problems, this patch provides an API to allow a client to
choose to not send the 'set_db_change_aware' request.

There was an earlier attempt to fix this [0], but it was not accepted
back then as discussed in the email [1]. It was also discussed in the
emails that an alternative approach is to use notification instead of
request, but that would require protocol changes and taking backward
compatibility into consideration. So this patch takes a different
approach and tries to keep the change small.

[0] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/patch/1594380801-32134-1-git-send-email-dceara@redhat.com/

[1] https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-discuss/2021-February/050919.html

Reported-by: Girish Moodalbail <gmoodalbail@nvidia.com>
Reported-at: https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-discuss/2020-July/050343.html
Reported-by: Tobias Hofmann <tohofman@cisco.com>
Reported-at: https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-discuss/2021-February/050914.html
Acked-by: Dumitru Ceara <dceara@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Han Zhou <hzhou@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>

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