Handle case where the VectorHolder contains a null value

* main: (208 commits)
  Docs: Fix Flink 1.20 support versions (apache#11065)
  Flink: Fix compile warning (apache#11072)
  Docs: Initial committer guidelines and requirements for merging (apache#10780)
  Core: Refactor ZOrderByteUtils (apache#10624)
  API: implement types timestamp_ns and timestamptz_ns (apache#9008)
  Build: Bump com.google.errorprone:error_prone_annotations (apache#11055)
  Build: Bump mkdocs-material from 9.5.33 to 9.5.34 (apache#11062)
  Flink: Backport PR apache#10526 to v1.18 and v1.20 (apache#11018)
  Kafka Connect: Disable publish tasks in runtime project (apache#11032)
  Flink: add unit tests for range distribution on bucket partition column (apache#11033)
  Spark 3.5: Use FileGenerationUtil in PlanningBenchmark (apache#11027)
  Core: Add benchmark for appending files (apache#11029)
  Build: Ignore benchmark output folders across all modules (apache#11030)
  Spec: Add RemovePartitionSpecsUpdate REST update type (apache#10846)
  Docs: bump latest version to 1.6.1 (apache#11036)
  OpenAPI, Build: Apply spotless to testFixtures source code (apache#11024)
  Core: Generate realistic bounds in benchmarks (apache#11022)
  Add REST Compatibility Kit (apache#10908)
  Flink: backport PR apache#10832 of inferring parallelism in FLIP-27 source (apache#11009)
  Docs: Add Druid docs url to sidebar (apache#10997)
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