Introduce the infrastructure needed to transport per-element timestamps
and TTL expiry times from replicas to coordinators, required for
WRITETIME(col[key]) / TTL(col[key]) and WRITETIME(col.field) /
TTL(col.field).
* Add a 'writetime_ttl_individual_element' cluster feature flag that
guards usage of the new wire format during rolling upgrades: the
extended format is only emitted and consumed when every node in the
cluster supports it.
* Implement serialize_for_cql_with_timestamps() (types/types.cc), a
variant of serialize_for_cql() that appends a per-element section to
the regular CQL bytes, listing each live element's serialized key,
timestamp, and expiry. The format is:
[uint32 cql_len][cql bytes]
[int32 entry_count]
[per entry: (int32 key_len)(key bytes)(int64 timestamp)(int64 expiry)]
expiry is -1 when the element has no TTL.
* Add partition_slice::option::send_collection_timestamps and modify
write_cell() (mutation_partition.cc) to use the new function
serialize_for_cql_with_timestamps() when this option is available.
This commit stands alone with no user-visible effect: nothing yet sets
the new partition-slice option. The next patch adds the selection-layer
code that sets the option and parses the extended response.
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