MCOL-4741 Fix extentmap handling of string prefixes encoded as 64-bit integers #1999
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It so happened that string prefixes, encoded as integers for comparison, were compared in range merge operation (used primarily by cpimport) as signed integers, not unsigned ones (as memcmp/strcmp would).
This was the main reason of range values became messed up after cpimport of completely NULL column.