chore: disable the remote feature by default (#1239)

The rust implementation of the remote client is not yet ready. This is
understandably confusing for users since it is enabled by default. This
PR disables it by default. We can re-enable it when we are ready (even
then it is not clear this is something that should be a default
feature).

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Co-authored-by: Will Jones <willjones127@gmail.com>

rust/lancedb/Cargo.toml

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ aws-sdk-kms = { version = "1.0" }
 aws-config = { version = "1.0" }
 
 [features]
-default = ["remote"]
+default = []
 remote = ["dep:reqwest"]
 fp16kernels = ["lance-linalg/fp16kernels"]
-s3-test = []
+s3-test = []

rust/lancedb/src/connection.rs

@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ use crate::table::{NativeTable, WriteOptions};
 use crate::utils::validate_table_name;
 use crate::Table;
 
+#[cfg(feature = "remote")]
+use log::warn;
+
 pub const LANCE_FILE_EXTENSION: &str = "lance";
 
 pub type TableBuilderCallback = Box<dyn FnOnce(OpenTableBuilder) -> OpenTableBuilder + Send>;
@@ -579,6 +582,7 @@ impl ConnectBuilder {
         let api_key = self.api_key.ok_or_else(|| Error::InvalidInput {
             message: "An api_key is required when connecting to LanceDb Cloud".to_string(),
         })?;
+        warn!("The rust implementation of the remote client is not yet ready for use.");
         let internal = Arc::new(crate::remote::db::RemoteDatabase::try_new(
             &self.uri,
             &api_key,

rust/lancedb/src/lib.rs

@@ -34,6 +34,16 @@
 //! cargo install lancedb
 //! ```
 //!
+//! ## Crate Features
+//!
+//! ### Experimental Features
+//!
+//! These features are not enabled by default.  They are experimental or in-development features that
+//! are not yet ready to be released.
+//!
+//! - `remote` - Enable remote client to connect to LanceDB cloud.  This is not yet fully implemented
+//!              and should not be enabled.
+//!
 //! ### Quick Start
 //!
 //! #### Connect to a database.