Fixes issue where we would throw `Either data or schema needs to
defined` when passing `data` to `createTable` as a property of the first
argument (an object).
```ts
await db.createTable({
name: 'table1',
data,
schema
})
```
- make open table behaviour consistent:
- remote tables will check if the table exists by calling /describe and
throwing an error if the call doesn't succeed
- this is similar to the behaviour for local tables where we will raise
an exception when opening the table if the local dataset doesn't exist
- The table names are cached in the client with a TTL
- Also fixes a small bug where if the remote error response was
deserialized from JSON as an object, we'd print it resulting in the
unhelpful error message: `Error: Server Error, status: 404, message: Not
Found: [object Object]`
This prevents an issue where users can do something like:
```js
db.createTable('my-table#123123')
```
The server has logic to determine that '#' character is not allowed in
the table name, but currently this is being returned as 404 error
because it routes to `/v1/my-table#123123/create` and `#123123/create`
will not be parsed as part of path
Allow passing API key as env var:
```shell
export LANCEDB_API_KEY=sh_123...
```
with this set, apiKey argument can omitted from `connect`
```js
const db = await vectordb.connect({
uri: "db://test-proj-01-ae8343",
region: "us-east-1",
})
```
```py
db = lancedb.connect(
uri="db://test-proj-01-ae8343",
region="us-east-1",
)
```
- Supports creating an empty table as long as an Arrow Schema is provided
- Supports creating a table from an Arrow Table (can be passed as data)
- Simplified some Arrow code in the TS/FFI side
- removed createTableArrow method, it was never documented / tested.
- Callers / SDKs are responsible for keeping track of the last version of the Table
- Remove the mpsc from Table and make all Table operations non-blocking
