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Simplify EXPR LIKE 'constant' to expr = 'constant' #13192

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@alamb

Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge?

As @adriangb observes in #12978, there is often special case handling for equality predicates like col = 'foo'

However, sometimes people (or tools) write queries using the LIKE operator:

SELECT ... WHERE col like 'foo'

Describe the solution you'd like

I think it would be nice if DataFusion's simplifier could simplify such expressions to WHERE col = 'foo', something that trino does (see trinodb/trino@6aea881#diff-3b166584d367d2e1bf2184249d6bad632bb4ecbe18e011f4744fdf629c771ce7R912)

> explain select * from values ('foo'), ('bar') where column1 like 'foo';
+---------------+---------------------------------------------+
| plan_type     | plan                                        |
+---------------+---------------------------------------------+
| logical_plan  | Filter: column1 LIKE Utf8("foo")            |
|               |   Values: (Utf8("foo")), (Utf8("bar"))      |
| physical_plan | CoalesceBatchesExec: target_batch_size=8192 |
|               |   FilterExec: column1@0 LIKE foo            |
|               |     ValuesExec                              |
|               |                                             |
+---------------+---------------------------------------------+
2 row(s) fetched.
Elapsed 0.006 seconds.

Describe alternatives you've considered

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Additional context

@adriangb has implemented a version of this here: #13061

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