Summary: liveness of the statistics object is already ensured by the shared pointer in DB options. There's no reason to pass again shared pointer among internal functions. Raw pointer is sufficient and efficient.
Test Plan: make check
Reviewers: dhruba, MarkCallaghan, igor
Reviewed By: dhruba
CC: leveldb, reconnect.grayhat
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D14289
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