expression: fix different results for greatest when vectorized is off (#29438)

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cherry-pick #29438 to release-5.3
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Signed-off-by: guo-shaoge [email protected]

What problem does this PR solve?

Issue Number: close #29434

Problem Summary:
The correct semantics of greatest/least(col_datetime, col_string):

1. Convert all args as String
2. EvalString to get arg value
3. Parse string as datetime. If it's a valid datetime, use string(datetime) to compare. Otherwise use the result of EvalString to compare.

What is changed and how it works?

Check List

Tests

• Unit test
• Integration test
• Manual test (add detailed scripts or steps below)
• No code

Side effects

• Performance regression: Consumes more CPU
• Performance regression: Consumes more Memory
• Breaking backward compatibility

Documentation

• Affects user behaviors
• Contains syntax changes
• Contains variable changes
• Contains experimental features
• Changes MySQL compatibility

Release note

expression: fix different results for greatest when vectorized is off.

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LGTM

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/merge

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