HCD-181 AssertionError from CassandraStreamReader

[bereng]

DO NOT MERGE POC PATCH

Branched off HCD-1.1.2 == hcd-1.1-dev at the time of writing

What is the issue

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What does this PR fix and why was it fixed

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[michaelsembwever]

can we put this upstream too please

[bereng]

This is a POC diag PR so far. Yes this will get propagated once complete.

[sonarqubecloud]

Quality Gate passed

Issues
0 New issues
0 Accepted issues

Measures
0 Security Hotspots
70.0% Coverage on New Code
0.0% Duplication on New Code

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[cassci-bot]

❌ Build ds-cassandra-pr-gate/PR-1973 rejected by Butler

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8 regressions found
See build details here

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Found 8 new test failures

Test	Explanation	Runs	Upstream
test_unicode.TestCqlshUnicode.test_unicode_desc (python3.8.jdk11.no-cython.x86_64)	NEW	🔴	0 / 0
o.a.c.db.compaction.CorruptedSSTablesCompactionsTest.testCorruptedSSTablesWithLeveledCompactionStrategy	NEW	🔴	0 / 0
o.a.c.index.sai.cql.VectorUpdateDeleteTest.testVectorRowWhereUpdateMakesRowMatchNonOrderingPredicates[dc] (compression)	NEW	🔴	0 / 0
o.a.c.index.sai.cql.types.collections.sets.FrozenSetIntTest.test[version=eb,dataset=frozen<set>,wide=false,scenario=MEMTABLE_QUERY] (compression)	NEW	🔴	0 / 0
o.a.c.index.sai.cql.types.collections.sets.SetFrozenCollectionTest.test[version=db,dataset=set<frozen<set>>,wide=false,scenario=MIXED_QUERY] (compression)	NEW	🔴	0 / 0
o.a.c.index.sai.metrics.QueryMetricsTest.testKDTreePostingsQueryMetricsWithSingleIndex (compression)	NEW	🔴	0 / 0
o.a.c.io.sstable.EarlyOpenCachingTest.testFinalOpenRetainsCachedData[format=BIG] (compression)	NEW	🔴	0 / 0
o.a.c.io.sstable.EarlyOpenCachingTest.testFinalOpenRetainsCachedData[format=BTI] (compression)	NEW	🔴	0 / 0

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