Improve hive type auto-casting so that it looks at all files instead of only the first file #11676
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Fixes #9763
Fixes #11636
Previously the hive auto-type detection would only look at the first file, which provided inconsistent behavior. We now look at all files and merge the types during auto-detection, falling back to
VARCHAR
if the types cannot be merged.