Query and Job were one page because they share the _async convention, but they
are different things: a query returns rows and streams them, a job returns an
outcome you wait for. Two pages now, query first, each carrying a short pointer
to the other rather than the shared framing.
Agentic Skills absorbs the agent plugin tutorial, which was a separate page in
Use Cases describing the same plugin in more detail -- the two had diverged, with
the tutorial carrying the fuller install instructions. It also moves to Getting
Started: installing the plugin is something you do before writing anything, not
a concept to understand.
Ten merges and renames, all in one direction: fewer pages, each covering a whole
subject.
Table absorbs schema evolution and versioning. Vector search absorbs
multi-vector. Explain absorbs explain analyze. Reranking was seven pages -- an
overview and six rerankers of a few dozen lines each -- and is now one. The
vector index page absorbs quantization, which was only ever a parameter of it.
Indexing moves to Manage, where the other catalog objects are. The operational
half stays in Operate as one Indexing page, absorbing GPU indexing -- which was
filed in sophon despite importing lancedb's snippets and being mostly
open-source content with one Enterprise-badged section.
Performance was a single page aggregating tips for four unrelated operations,
which is hard to keep current. Each section now sits with the operation it is
about: ingestion tips on Insert, index tips on Indexing, compaction tips on
Compaction, query tips on Search.
Data Types leaves Concepts. The type reference belongs in the SQL reference,
which already described the same types from the query side; Table now carries a
short summary that points there. The multimodal material it had absorbed is its
own page again, since storing blobs is a task rather than a type definition.
Query becomes Semantic Search, Branches becomes Branch, and the Enterprise
Security page becomes Compliance.
Redirects cover every moved URL, and 30 files were repointed at the merged
anchors.
The Documentation tab now reads as a manual over Python, TypeScript and SQL
rather than a Python guide with SQL bolted on.
Basics replaces the Catalog section: what the catalog holds, what each API
surface can do, jobs, agentic skills, and what Lance is. Management is new and
is the CRUD and listing reference for every catalog object, with a column per
language so the gaps are visible -- TypeScript has no function or SQL methods,
SQL needs a deployment.
Search becomes Query and gains a SELECT reference, since an analytical query is
a query whether it came from a builder or a statement.
Jobs is new. Every long-running operation already returned the same handle from
an _async method; nothing documented it.
The SQL function reference gains what Lance registers on top of DataFusion:
contains_tokens, backed by the FTS index, and the JSON accessors, backed by a
JSON scalar index. Geospatial st_* functions are behind a build feature LanceDB
does not ship, which is now stated rather than left to a confusing error.
Removes the Geneva pages' orphaned snippets, merges FTS Examples into Full-Text
Search, and splits Query Optimization into Explain and Explain Analyze.
Jack Ye