[WIP] Improve casting support in nested maps/arrays #338
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Disclaimer: this was part of a time-boxed hackathon, I didn't get time to bring it to a more polished state or test this code properly. Publishing in case it's useful to anyone, feel free to reuse (at your own risks).
This includes changes from #335.
The actual relevant part here is the 2nd commit: 7159dc1
Type widening requires casting values on read after a type change is applied to a table, from the narrower parquet type to the current wider type in the table schema.
This change aims at fixing issues and limitations with casting inside arrays and maps