types: fix a bug in casting str2str when union (#37242)

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cherry-pick #37242 to release-6.1
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What problem does this PR solve?

Issue Number: close #31678

Problem Summary:

When building the plan of union, the flen of the projection target FieldType is mis-computed.

What is changed and how it works?

Check List

Tests

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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

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Fix a wrong casting in building union plan

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[ti-srebot]

/run-all-tests

[CbcWestwolf]

/run-check_dev_2

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Code Coverage Details: https://codecov.io/github/pingcap/tidb/commit/a645170c677da9361681aeb084fb894846ea8fff

[CbcWestwolf]

/reopen

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@CbcWestwolf: Reopened this PR.

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[hawkingrei]

/merge

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Commit hash: 532a73a