Wyatt Alt d1abefce56 fix: carry every metadata form a view can represent
Three ways a view's schema lost or misstated what the source declared.

`without_declarations` descended structs and lists only, so a write
declaration on a map's entries -- or on a union variant or a run-end
child -- survived into a view whose rows come from refresh alone. Every
Arrow variant that carries a field is descended now.

Output lineage was one-to-one, so a source column projected under two
names kept only the last: an embedding configuration then described one
of the two vector columns and left the other unconfigured. A column now
records every name the view gives it, and the configuration expands to
each valid source/vector pairing.

The native Rust producer records embeddings under
`lancedb::column_definitions` rather than as `embedding_functions`, and
preparation read only the latter, so even an identity-projected view
lost the definition a query embeds its own text through. Those
definitions are positional, so the view's list covers every one of its
fields: an output projecting an embedding column directly keeps it under
the view's names, and anything the view cannot recompute -- the
function's input unprojected -- comes back physical.
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