lance-format / lance-format/lance

docs: create a spec page listing all standard table configurations

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Since Aug 20, 2026.

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Description

We have a field that holds config keys here:

https://github.com/lance-format/lance/blob/779f6e6390c869166639e578417df0fd96205591/protos/table.proto#L184-L189

We say that there are some prefixed with lance.. We should expect any library that supports the Lance format can read these and understand them. To help that along, we should have a documentation page in under "Specification" that lists all the known ones and what they do. This can be a table. Each entry can link to another documentation page that describes the feature more fully.

Part of this task is going through the library and identifying all the lance. prefixes that are used.

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