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✅ PR #155651 is compliant with backport policy

Confidence: high
Critical bug criteria met: [Stability or security issues Bugs that can cause the DB to return incorrect results or result in suboptimal performance]
Backward compatible: true
Explanation: The PR introduces a modification which ensures that certain assertions related to the 'NumRange' of histogram buckets are only checked in test builds, thus not affecting production systems. The primary change is in making this check available only in a test environment to avoid query failures due to malformed histograms in production. This aligns with improving system stability and avoiding unnecessary failures, making it a critical bug fix. The changes in the PR do not appear to require a new feature flag because they are specifically targeted at coding changes that prevent potential disruptions in production. While there is the addition of a test-only check, it does not alter the production functionality or introduce backward-incompatible changes. This change makes the system more robust without altering its expected functional behaviors outside of testing scenarios.

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