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[Variant] Support BinaryArray/LargeBinaryArray in addition to BinaryViewArray for Variant #8387

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@alamb

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Currently VariantArray requires BinaryViewArray but by default the Parquet reader produces BinaryArray -- this means that without a workaround, it is not possible to read data from the ParquetReader without converting

According to the Arrow canonical extension type (see apache/arrow#47456) BinaryArray is valid (as is BinaryViewArray)

I added a workaround in

But this ticket tracks the work to actually support BinaryArray properly in VariantArray

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