feat: add support for pyarrow.ExtensionType
#2885
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The current code lacks support for pyarrow's
ExtensionType
when writing to Delta Lake, which is used by many libraries in the pyarrow ecosystem. This PR aims to improve the Delta Lake Python bindings to enhance support for these third-party ecosystems.For example, the following code tests that data can be correctly written after adding this PR per Eventual-Inc/Daft#2827 (comment):