Remove cache option from SQConfig, deprecate field in factory method

weaviate/collections/classes/config.py

@@ -1768,7 +1768,6 @@ class _BQConfig(_ConfigBase):
 
 @dataclass
 class _SQConfig(_ConfigBase):
-    cache: Optional[bool]
     rescore_limit: int
     training_limit: int
 

weaviate/collections/classes/config_methods.py

@@ -133,7 +133,6 @@ def __get_quantizer_config(
     elif "sq" in config and config["sq"]["enabled"]:
         # values are not present for bq+hnsw
         quantizer = _SQConfig(
-            cache=config["sq"].get("cache"),
             rescore_limit=config["sq"].get("rescoreLimit"),
             training_limit=config["sq"].get("trainingLimit"),
         )

weaviate/collections/classes/config_vector_index.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from abc import abstractmethod
 from enum import Enum
-from typing import Any, Dict, Optional, overload
+from typing import Any, Dict, Literal, Optional, overload
 
 from pydantic import Field
 from typing_extensions import deprecated
@@ -265,7 +265,6 @@ def quantizer_name() -> str:
 
 
 class _SQConfigCreate(_QuantizerConfigCreate):
-    cache: Optional[bool]
     rescoreLimit: Optional[int]
     trainingLimit: Optional[int]
 
@@ -423,6 +422,25 @@ def bq(
             rescoreLimit=rescore_limit,
         )
 
+    @deprecated(
+        "The `cache` field is not supported by SQ and will be ignored if set. It will be removed in a future release."
+    )
+    @overload
+    @staticmethod
+    def sq(
+        cache: bool,
+        rescore_limit: Optional[int] = None,
+        training_limit: Optional[int] = None,
+    ) -> _SQConfigCreate: ...
+
+    @overload
+    @staticmethod
+    def sq(
+        cache: Literal[None] = None,
+        rescore_limit: Optional[int] = None,
+        training_limit: Optional[int] = None,
+    ) -> _SQConfigCreate: ...
+
     @staticmethod
     def sq(
         cache: Optional[bool] = None,
@@ -437,7 +455,6 @@ def sq(
             See [the docs](https://weaviate.io/developers/weaviate/concepts/vector-index#binary-quantization) for a more detailed view!
         """  # noqa: D417 (missing argument descriptions in the docstring)
         return _SQConfigCreate(
-            cache=cache,
             rescoreLimit=rescore_limit,
             trainingLimit=training_limit,
         )