Avoid index scan for lower/upper bounds containing NULL keys #8447
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This PR is a solution for #8278.
If the retrieval is flagged to ignore NULL keys, check whether any used segment of the lower/upper lookup keys contain NULL and if so just skip the index scan returning the empty bitmap.
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