From e1c2537789679ebaf4f08f5fdf050cd16abac6a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gatefixer <313497061+lancedb-gatefixer[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:23:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix: defer LSM filter schema conversion

---
 rust/lancedb/src/table/query/lsm.rs | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/rust/lancedb/src/table/query/lsm.rs b/rust/lancedb/src/table/query/lsm.rs
index 372114e53..07ea7fb81 100644
--- a/rust/lancedb/src/table/query/lsm.rs
+++ b/rust/lancedb/src/table/query/lsm.rs
@@ -383,7 +383,6 @@ fn base_scanner(
     snapshots: Vec<ShardSnapshot>,
     in_memory: HashMap<Uuid, InMemoryMemTables>,
 ) -> Result<LsmScanner> {
-    let schema = ArrowSchema::from(dataset.schema());
     let mut scanner = LsmScanner::new(Arc::new(dataset.clone()), snapshots, pk_columns);
     for (shard_id, memtables) in in_memory {
         scanner = scanner.with_in_memory_memtables(shard_id, memtables);
@@ -398,6 +397,7 @@ fn base_scanner(
                 // Parse here instead of inside `LsmScanner::filter` so the typed
                 // DataFusion `FieldNotFound` error is still available for the
                 // same nested-field enrichment used by the ordinary scanner.
+                let schema = ArrowSchema::from(dataset.schema());
                 let df_schema = schema.clone().to_dfschema().map_err(|error| {
                     enrich_filter_error(error, &schema, "Failed to create DFSchema")
                 })?;