Emulator indicating MORE_RESULTS_AFTER_LIMIT with NOT_EQUAL query regardless of more results or not

[cthrax]

[REQUIRED] Environment info

Using Google Cloud SDK: 482.0.0 with cloud-firestore-emulator: 1.19.7

firebase-tools:

gcloud --version
Google Cloud SDK 482.0.0
app-engine-java 2.0.28
app-engine-python 1.9.113
app-engine-python-extras 1.9.106
beta 2024.06.24
cloud-datastore-emulator 2.3.1
cloud-firestore-emulator 1.19.7
core 2024.06.24

Platform: Mac OS Sonoma 14.5 with an M2 processor

[REQUIRED] Test case

import requests
import json

commit_url = 'http://127.0.0.1:7079/v1/projects/test-app:commit'
payload = {
    "mode": "NON_TRANSACTIONAL",
    "mutations": [
        {
            "insert": {
                "key": {
                    "path": [{"kind": "TestModel"}]
                },
                "properties": {
                    "name": {
                        "stringValue": "Cool Name"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}
payload = json.dumps(payload)
headers = {'Content-Length': f'{len(payload)}', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'}
resp = requests.post(commit_url, headers=headers, data=payload)

query_url = 'http://127.0.0.1:7079/v1/projects/test-app:runQuery'
# As long as there is a filter that uses != that matches at least 1 result
payload = {
    "query": {
        "kind": [{"name": "TestModel"}],
        "filter": {"propertyFilter": {"property": {"name": "name"}, "op": "NOT_EQUAL", "value": {"stringValue": "baz"}}},
        "limit": 10
    },
}
payload = json.dumps(payload).encode('utf-8')
headers = {'Content-Length': f'{len(payload)}', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'}
# POST request to the emulator
resp = requests.post(query_url, headers=headers, data=payload)

# check response's data
data = resp.json()
# This assertion will fail regardless of more or not
assert data['batch']['moreResults'] != 'MORE_RESULTS_AFTER_LIMIT'
print(data)

[REQUIRED] Steps to reproduce

To reproduce:

1. Start firestore emulator in datastore mode gcloud emulators firestore start --host-port="0.0.0.0:7079" --database-mode=datastore-mode
2. Add an entity
3. Query for that entity based on a '!=' condition that results to true for the added entity (I have tested with nullValue and stringValue) and limit to something higher than known number of entities (eg 2 in this case)
4. Note the return of "MORE_RESULTS_AFTER_LIMIT" regardless of there being more results or not

[REQUIRED] Expected behavior

I would expect that NO_MORE_RESULTS is returned in the case that there are no more results

[REQUIRED] Actual behavior

MORE_RESULTS_AFTER_LIMIT is always returned when doing a NOT_EQUAL query that does include at least one result and on the first page