[Go] Dictionary compaction
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### Describe the enhancement requested
I don't know if other languages offer this, but I assume this is a common thing needed.
My scenario: I have dictionary arrays that traverse a query plan and potentially get filtered, and at the end, the dictionary may contain many more items than are actually still being referenced by indices in the dictionary.
So I think it would be useful to have a `CompactDictionary` function that removes any unused entries from the dictionary and re-writes the indices to match the new, compact dictionary.
Thoughts? (We may have to implement this anyway so in a way I'm asking if anyone has already written something like this and if not if this is a contribution that would be accepted)
cc @zeroshade
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