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Tomasz Grabiec 1a6f4389ae Merge 'atomic_cell: compare value last' from Benny Halevy
Currently, when two cells have the same write timestamp
and both are alive or expiring, we compare their value first,
before checking if either of them is expiring
and if both are expiring, comparing their expiration time
and ttl value to determine which of them will expire
later or was written later.

This was based on an early version of Cassandra.
However, the Cassandra implementation rightfully changed in
e225c88a65 ([CASSANDRA-14592](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-14592)),
where the cell expiration is considered before the cell value.

To summarize, the motivation for this change is three fold:
1. Cassandra compatibility
2. Prevent an edge case where a null value is returned by select query when an expired cell has a larger value than a cell with later expiration.
3. A generalization of the above: value-based reconciliation may cause select query to return a mixture of upserts, if multiple upserts use the same timeastamp but have different expiration times.  If the cell value is considered before expiration, the select result may contain cells from different inserts, while reconciling based the expiration times will choose cells consistently from either upserts, as all cells in the respective upsert will carry the same expiration time.

\Fixes scylladb/scylladb#14182

Also, this series:
- updates dml documentation
- updates internal documentation
- updates and adds unit tests and cql pytest reproducing #14182

\Closes scylladb/scylladb#14183

* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
  docs: dml: add update ordering section
  cql-pytest: test_using_timestamp: add tests for rewrites using same timestamp
  mutation_partition: compare_row_marker_for_merge: consider ttl in case expiry is the same
  atomic_cell: compare_atomic_cell_for_merge: update and add documentation
  compare_atomic_cell_for_merge: compare value last for live cells
  mutation_test: test_cell_ordering: improve debuggability

(cherry picked from commit 87b4606cd6)

Closes #14649
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