Backport to v1.9 some fixes for Julia master #1244

Job	Run time
Documentation	1m 21s
Julia 1.6 - ubuntu-latest - x64 - pull_request	12m 20s
Julia 1.6 - macOS-latest - x64 - pull_request	4m 19s
Julia 1 - ubuntu-latest - x64 - pull_request	14m 28s
Julia 1 - macOS-latest - x64 - pull_request	4m 20s
Julia 1 - windows-latest - x64 - pull_request	4m 54s
Julia nightly - ubuntu-latest - x64 - pull_request	52m 12s
Julia nightly - macOS-latest - x64 - pull_request	6m 17s
Julia nightly - windows-latest - x64 - pull_request	9m 22s
Julia 1 - windows-latest - x86 - pull_request	9m 49s
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