[cherry release/3.4.x] cherry-picking important fixes to 34x #31468

Job	Run time
build / Build dependencies	7m 8s
Lint, Doc and Unit tests	4m 23s
Postgres integration - first (01-04) tests	16m 5s
PDK tests	3m 40s
Postgres integration - second (>= 05) tests	21m 23s
DB-less integration tests	14m 18s
Postgres plugins - first (01-04) tests	7m 52s
Postgres plugins - second (>= 05) tests	9m 59s
Luacov stats aggregator	0s
	1h 24m 48s

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