1. added rename_table fn to enable dashboard to rename a table
2. added index_type and distance_type (for vector index) to index_stats
so that more detailed data can be shown on the table page.
closes#1194#1172#1124#1208
@wjones127 : `if query_type != "fts":` is needed because both fts and
vector search create `LanceQueryBuilder` which has `vector_column_name`
as a required attribute.
Exposes `storage_options` in LanceDB. This is provided for Python async,
Node `lancedb`, and Node `vectordb` (and Rust of course). Python
synchronous is omitted because it's not compatible with the PyArrow
filesystems we use there currently. In the future, we will move the sync
API to wrap the async one, and then it will get support for
`storage_options`.
1. Fixes#1168
2. Closes#1165
3. Closes#1082
4. Closes#439
5. Closes#897
6. Closes#642
7. Closes#281
8. Closes#114
9. Closes#990
10. Deprecating `awsCredentials` and `awsRegion`. Users are encouraged
to use `storageOptions` instead.
- 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
We aren't yet ready to switch over the examples since almost all JS
examples rely on embeddings and we haven't yet ported those over.
However, this makes it possible for those that are interested to start
using `@lancedb/lancedb`
