Merge the latest trunk fixes and enhancements into the empty-table-optimizations...

FossilOrigin-Name: d4f47e04f5880e99a53089e2dd5cde64a7ea44f059d9906b5d11324896546714

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diff --cc src/select.c
Simple merge