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Create fixed size list table with syntax <type name>[<length>] #10303

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@jayzhan211

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To create a table with fixed size list, we can only do it by casting

statement ok
CREATE TABLE fixed_size_arrays
AS VALUES
  (arrow_cast(make_array(make_array(NULL, 2),make_array(3, NULL)), 'FixedSizeList(2, List(Int64))'), arrow_cast(make_array(1.1, 2.2, 3.3), 'FixedSizeList(3, Float64)'), arrow_cast(make_array('L', 'o', 'r', 'e', 'm'), 'FixedSizeList(5, Utf8)')),
  (arrow_cast(make_array(make_array(3, 4),make_array(5, 6)), 'FixedSizeList(2, List(Int64))'), arrow_cast(make_array(NULL, 5.5, 6.6), 'FixedSizeList(3, Float64)'), arrow_cast(make_array('i', 'p', NULL, 'u', 'm'), 'FixedSizeList(5, Utf8)')),
  (arrow_cast(make_array(make_array(5, 6),make_array(7, 8)), 'FixedSizeList(2, List(Int64))'), arrow_cast(make_array(7.7, 8.8, 9.9), 'FixedSizeList(3, Float64)'), arrow_cast(make_array('d', NULL, 'l', 'o', 'r'), 'FixedSizeList(5, Utf8)')),
  (arrow_cast(make_array(make_array(7, NULL),make_array(9, 10)), 'FixedSizeList(2, List(Int64))'), arrow_cast(make_array(10.1, NULL, 12.2), 'FixedSizeList(3, Float64)'), arrow_cast(make_array('s', 'i', 't', 'a', 'b'), 'FixedSizeList(5, Utf8)')),
  (NULL, arrow_cast(make_array(13.3, 14.4, 15.5), 'FixedSizeList(3, Float64)'), arrow_cast(make_array('a', 'm', 'e', 't', 'x'), 'FixedSizeList(5, Utf8)')),
  (arrow_cast(make_array(make_array(11, 12),make_array(13, 14)), 'FixedSizeList(2, List(Int64))'), NULL, arrow_cast(make_array(',','a','b','c','d'), 'FixedSizeList(5, Utf8)')),
  (arrow_cast(make_array(make_array(15, 16),make_array(NULL, 18)), 'FixedSizeList(2, List(Int64))'), arrow_cast(make_array(16.6, 17.7, 18.8), 'FixedSizeList(3, Float64)'), NULL)
;

In DuckDB, they has syntax like <type name> [<length>], which I think is quite nice

CREATE TABLE array_table (id INTEGER, arr INTEGER[3]);
INSERT INTO array_table VALUES (10, [1, 2, 3]), (20, [4, 5, 6]);

What we don't have the syntax supported yet, we need to fix the parser first

query error DataFusion error: SQL error: ParserError\("Expected \], found: 3"\)
create table t1 (a int[3]) as values ([1, 2, 3]), ([4, 5, 6]);

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query
create table t1 (a int[3]) as values ([1, 2, 3]), ([4, 5, 6]);
----
[1,2,3]
[4,5,6]

with type FixedSizeList(i64)

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