PARQUET-2498: Vector IO to handle empty range list

[steveloughran]

Empty range lists currently trigger IllegalArgumentException, however some (integration test) codepaths attempt to do this.

Downgrading the empty list case to a no-op resolves this.

Change-Id: Ia0f94422415aeeacb15d3c3a909d4de6f1563268

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[wgtmac]

Do we need to port it to the version 1.14.1 which is about to release?

[steveloughran]

yes, please.

[wgtmac]

I already included that in the 1.14.1 RC0 :)