feat: add the repetition index to the miniblock write path #3208
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The repetition index is what will give us random access support when we have list data. At a high level it stores the number of top-level rows in each mini-block chunk. We can use this later to figure out which chunks we need to read.
In reality things are a little more complicated because we don't mandate that each chunk starts with a brand new row (e.g. a row can span multiple mini-block chunks). This is useful because we eventually want to support arbitrarily deep nested access. If we create not-so-mini blocks in the presence of large lists then we introduce read amplification we'd like to avoid.