feat: add update_field_metadata to edit per-field metadata (#3482)

### Summary
Adds update_field_metadata to the client SDK (Rust core, Python, and
TypeScript) so clients can edit per-field (column) Arrow metadata
(schema.fields[].metadata)

### Testing
- added unit tests
- ran E2E against a local server on both local and remote tables (set →
merge → delete), across Python sync/async and TypeScript

### Next steps
- deprecate replace_field_metadata in the python lancedb favor of this
(typescript didn't have replace_field_metadata method). This matches
Lance's API direction (Lance already deprecated replace_field_metadata
for update_field_metadata)
This commit is contained in:
Brendan Clement
2026-06-02 07:00:00 -07:00
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parent 7b874905fd
commit d065be0474
17 changed files with 537 additions and 7 deletions

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@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ use query::{FTSQuery, HybridQuery, Query, VectorQuery};
use session::Session;
use table::{
AddColumnsResult, AddResult, AlterColumnsResult, DeleteResult, DropColumnsResult, LsmWriteSpec,
MergeResult, Table, UpdateResult,
MergeResult, Table, UpdateFieldMetadataResult, UpdateResult,
};
pub mod arrow;
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ pub fn _lancedb(_py: Python, m: &Bound<'_, PyModule>) -> PyResult<()> {
m.add_class::<RecordBatchStream>()?;
m.add_class::<AddColumnsResult>()?;
m.add_class::<AlterColumnsResult>()?;
m.add_class::<UpdateFieldMetadataResult>()?;
m.add_class::<AddResult>()?;
m.add_class::<MergeResult>()?;
m.add_class::<LsmWriteSpec>()?;