Move `make_array` to datafusion-functions
Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge?
Part of https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/issues/9285 and https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/issues/8045
The goal is to extract function definitions out of the datafusion core.
Note the make_array function is somewhat special in that it has several special cases in datafusion core at the moment.
Not only do the special cases make it hard to move, it also means some datafusion functionality is not available to scalar udf functions
I think this ticket will be blocked on removing the special case handling of MakeArrayin the expression rewriter(link) -- I will file a follow on ticket
Describe the solution you'd like
Move the make_array function to datafusion-functions-array
Describe alternatives you've considered
No response
Additional context
Note I have a draft PR with some of this code: https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/pull/9222 but likely won't have time to work on it for a while
I think https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/issues/9289 may be able to help us with the simplify example
@jayzhan211 I wonder if you have thoughts or time to work on this ticket?
not sure how to do yet, but I will take it.
/take