docs: clarify distance metric mismatch behavior - #362
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| The `distance_type` can be specified at search time in addition to build time. If | ||
| you do this, set it to the same value used to build the vector index. If the search | ||
| metric does not match the index metric, LanceDB cannot use the index and falls | ||
| back to a costly flat search. On LanceDB Enterprise, the brute-force KNN safety |
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it might be worth double checking if this applies to enterprise or just "cloud"
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Cherry-picked from main, which is not the deployed branch during the migration. Drops the assemble.yml hunk that came with it: that workflow does not exist on this branch.
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Fixes https://linear.app/lancedb/issue/DOC-81
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l2when the metric was omittedValidation
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