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Add projection support to SortMergeJoinExec #24518

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@Dandandan

Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge?

SortMergeJoinExec emits every column of both inputs.
We can add projection support to only produce the output columns (saving some compute / copy).

select * from t1 right join t2 on t1.c3 = t2.c3   -- c3 needs a cast
ProjectionExec: expr=[c1@0 as c1, ..., c4@8 as c4]
  SortMergeJoinExec: join_type=Right, on=[(CAST(t1.c3 AS Decimal128(10, 2))@4, c3@2)]

The cast column is only there to be joined on, and every operator above the join
carries it until the projection removes it.

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Add projection support to SortMergeJoinExec

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