When a particular partition exists in at least one sstable, the cache
expects any single-partition query to this partition to return a `partition_start`
fragment, even if the result is empty.
In `time_series_sstable_set::create_single_key_sstable_reader` it could
happen that all sstables containing data for the given query get
filtered out and only sstables without the relevant partition are left,
resulting in a reader which immediately returns end-of-stream (while it
should return a `partition_start` and if not in forwarding mode, a
`partition_end`). This commit fixes that.
We do it by extending the reader queue (used by the clustering reader
merger) with a `dummy_reader` which will be returned by the queue as
the very first reader. This reader only emits a `partition_start` and,
if not in forwarding mode, a `partition_end` fragment.
Fixes#8447.
Closes#8448
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