Tracking issue: https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb_iox/issues/14924

Patches

Patches map to commits 1:1 (i.e. every patch is exactly 1 commit) and are ordered for easier correlation of the description and the respective commits. They are also grouped in 3 stages.

A: Dummy

No actual patches, can be dropped at any point:

1. a dummy patch just to get "a diff" to the base branch

B: CI Fixes

Need to get CI up and running before picking any actual patches:

1. chore(deps): bump tracing-subscriber from 0.3.19 to 0.3.20:
   That's chore(deps): bump tracing-subscriber from 0.3.19 to 0.3.20 apache/datafusion#17355 . Without it, the "security audit" CI check fails because it finds an issue in the Cargo.lock file used for the examples. This wouldn't affect us, but it's easier to reason about a green CI. Can be dropped with DF 50.

All commits afterwards should build cleanly!

C: Patches

These are the actual relevant patches:

1. chore: default=true for skip_physical_aggregate_schema_check, and add warn logging:
   until we chase down all warnings in our iox logs (see https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb_iox/issues/12404 )
2. fix: temporary fix to handle incorrect coalesce (inserted during EnforceDistribution) which later causes an error during EnforceSort (without our patch). The next DataFusion version 46 upgrade does the proper fix, which is to not insert the coalesce in the first place.:
   There is EAR-5822 (also see https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb_iox/issues/13310 ) despite what the note in Patched DataFusion version 45.0.0 #54 and ParallelizeSorts, a subrule of EnforceSorting optimizer, should not remove necessary coalesce. apache/datafusion#14691 (comment) say, this is still required for DF version 46. Otherwise the regression test fails. Also see this slack thread.
3. fix(build-wasm): put arrow-ipc/zstd dep under compression feature flag:
   That's fix(build-wasm): put arrow-ipc/zstd dep under compression feature apache/datafusion#16844. I need this for https://github.com/influxdata/datafusion-udf-wasm . Can be dropped with DF 50.
4. Support centroids config for approx_percentile_cont_with_weight:
   That's Support centroids config for approx_percentile_cont_with_weight apache/datafusion#17003 . Needed so that the next patch applies cleanly. Can be dropped with DF 50.
5. (Re)Support old syntax for approx_percentile_cont and approx_percentile_cont_with_weight:
   That's (Re)Support old syntax for approx_percentile_cont and approx_percentile_cont_with_weight apache/datafusion#16999 . Can be dropped with DF 50.
6. feat: support distinct for window:
   That's feat: support distinct for window apache/datafusion#16925 because a customer wants it (see https://github.com/influxdata/EAR/issues/6252 ). Can be dropped with DF 50.
7. fix: return ALL constants in EquivalenceProperties::constants:
   That's fix: return ALL constants in EquivalenceProperties::constants apache/datafusion#17404 . This was a regression in DF 49 that tripped our query tests. Can be dropped with DF 50.
8. feat: Support binary data types for SortMergeJoin on clause:
   That's feat: Support binary data types for SortMergeJoin on clause apache/datafusion#17431 backported. Can be dropped with DF 50.
9. chore: skip order calculation / exponential planning:
   Even though we initially thought that this is no longer required with DF 49, it still is. Otherwise we run into https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb_iox/issues/13038 and the regression test end_to_end_cases::querier::influxrpc::read_filter::read_filter_many_tables will fail.
10. (New) Test + workaround for SanityCheck plan:
    This is required because the previous patch (:top:) trips the sanity checker. Note though that the original commit b41808b once contained a test which no longer seem to trigger a sanity check error w/o the patch, so the test is kinda useless and was dropped.