feat(c/driver/postgresql): Accept bulk ingest of dictionary-encoded strings/binary #1275
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This PR adds the ability for the Postgres driver to ingest dictionary-encoded arrays. This shows up in R because factors are relatively common and encode by default in Arrow to dictionary-encoded string for performance reasons.
Reprex in R:
Created on 2023-11-09 with reprex v2.0.2
There is probably some opportunity to consolidate some of the code that currently lives in the
BindStream
into thePostgresType
and/orPostgresTypeResolver
...I'm happy to poke away at that at some point but in the meantime it seemed like it wasn't too onerous to tack on dictionary support here.