Fix DataFrame.merge(Series, how="left"/"right") on column and index not resulting in a RangeIndex #17739
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Description
Left or right merging on a DataFrame column with a Series index (or vice versa) would not result in a
cudf.RangeIndex
in the result like pandas.IMO not the most ideal fix, but I think this is the most best location for the fix given the flow of this merge code.
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