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Daniel Rammer ec231b868a test: adapt to lance v14 behavior changes
- Blob v2 writes now use the Managed blob kind (lance#9293), so the
  refresh blob layout test expects Managed instead of Dedicated/Packed.
- Datasets with managed blobs set a reader flag that pylance 9.0.0
  rejects; pin the tests extra to pylance 14.0.0b7 (fury index).
- MultiMatchQuery JSON now includes per-leaf match_queries (lance#9753).
- fast_search no longer adds _rowid to the projection (lance#9699).
2026-10-08 15:08:17 -07:00
Colin Patrick McCabe de005f1d61 refactor!: implement lazy iterators for several APIs (#4459)
Implement lazy iterators for:
- secrets
- views
- jobs
- functions
- materialized views
2026-10-07 10:24:20 -07:00
Yuval LifshitzandClaude Opus 5.0 069b2f7d31 feat: add delete rows to table stats (#3783)
add to table stats the number of rows that has
been marked for deletion, but not yet deleted.
note that when a table fragment is removed due to
deletion of all of its rows, these rows are not counted. since the main
use of this feature is to determine when table compaction is needed, the
fact that these rows are not reported should not impact that decision
(deleted table fragments don't need compaction).

Fixes: https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/issues/3761

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.0 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-07 08:38:31 -07:00
Jack Ye 7e8f0d4982 refactor: always fully refresh materialized views (#4373)
Simplify experimental materialized views to one output-only storage
layout and one full-rebuild refresh implementation.

## Current layout

Local materialized views currently maintain incremental-refresh state
alongside the materialized values:

- an internal `__source_row_id` column for source provenance;
- `mv.definition` plus `mv.incarnation`;
- source version/timestamp, view version, and last-refresh watermarks;
- optional `mv.staging` state for table-function sources; and
- stable-row-ID requirements on the source table.

Refresh classifies source changes, appends or evicts rows when possible,
and falls back to a rebuild for unsupported deltas. Remote
create/refresh also use separate REST mutation paths.

## New layout

An MV is an ordinary Lance backing table containing only:

- the defining query's output columns;
- its current data fragments; and
- `mv.definition`, encoded as a versioned SQL envelope such as
`{"kind":"query","format":1,"query":"SELECT ..."}`.

There is no provenance column, incarnation, source/view watermark,
staging metadata, or stable-row-ID requirement. Local refresh may still
pin a source version for reproducibility, but it always recomputes the
complete result.

Full refresh streams the new result into uncommitted fragments and then
publishes a single transaction that removes every old fragment and
installs the new set. A shared conflict token prevents concurrent
replacements from both committing. This fragment-replacement primitive
is also used by Sophon's SQL worker.

## New remote create workflow

```text
Connection::create_materialized_view(...)
        -> builder renders the defining SELECT
        -> remote Database receives a CreateMaterializedViewRequest
        -> submit CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW ... AS ... through Flight SQL
        -> retain the SQL Query handle while the Job is running
        -> consume the durable SQL-job result
        -> open the created table and read mv.definition
        -> return MaterializedView
```

Remote refresh similarly submits `REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW` through
Flight SQL. Cancelling either wrapper forwards cancellation to the
retained SQL query before aborting the local task, so the server
operation is not silently left running.

## API changes

- remove incremental/no-op modes and the `full` switch;
- remove distributed grouped/partitioned refresh APIs and native
vector-source MV APIs;
- keep full-refresh results across Rust, Python, and TypeScript;
- preserve list/describe/drop as object-management operations while
routing create/refresh mutations through SQL.

The storage contract is experimental and has no compatibility shim;
views using the removed layout must be recreated.
2026-10-05 21:33:34 -07:00
Colin Patrick McCabe d864e7198f feat!: list_databases returns an iterator (#4442)
CatalogConnection.list_databases should return an iterator so that users
don't have to manually re-implement pagination. For those who do want
more control over pagination, add num_page_results and page_token to the
Iterator object, and also allow the iterator object to be created at a
specific page token.
2026-10-05 19:41:53 -07:00
Will JonesandClaude a68c7be202 feat(node): accept ArrayBuffer, Blob/File, and URL as blob column inputs (#4313)
Closes #4270.

## Summary

Blob v2 columns now accept more of the containers TypeScript code
commonly has, both as the column value and inside `{ data }` / `{ uri
}`:

| Input | Handling |
|---|---|
| `ArrayBuffer` | `new Uint8Array(value)`, no copy |
| `URL` | stored as `value.href` |
| `Blob` / `File` | `await value.arrayBuffer()` in the async write
paths: `createTable`, `add`, `mergeInsert` |

`makeArrowTable` is synchronous, so it can't read a `Blob`. Given one,
it throws an error that names the field and row and points to the async
APIs or `new Uint8Array(await value.arrayBuffer())`. It does not write a
null blob.

### Types
`BlobInput` is now the accepted input type. It is widened to the types
above and exported from the package entry point with `BlobData` and
`BlobUri`, so callers can annotate rows and `tsc` catches bad inputs.
The struct forms are a union that requires exactly one of `data` /
`uri`. The old normalized `{ data, uri }` shape is renamed to
`BlobValue` (internal).

### Implementation
- `blob.ts`: `normalizeBlobInput` (sync: `ArrayBuffer`/`URL`),
`resolveBlobInput` (async: `Blob`/`File`). `coerceBlobValue` normalizes
first.
- `arrow.ts`: `mapBlobInputs` walks only the blob positions in the
schema, including blobs nested in structs and lists. It copies records
and arrays only where a value changed, so caller data is never mutated.
`resolveBlobInputs` runs before `makeArrowTable` in `convertToTable`
(used by `add` / `mergeInsert`) and in `createTable`. Each distinct
`Blob` is read once.
- `makeArrowTable` now coerces every blob value to the full `{ data, uri
}` struct **before** schema inference. This also fixes two bugs that
existed before this change:
  - Rows mixing plain bytes with `{ data }` failed inference.
- A `{ uri }`-only struct produced a blob struct missing its `data`
child.

  Blob validation errors now include the field path and row.
- Also fixed along the way:
- `add` / `mergeInsert` on a table with an embedding function rejected
most blob values, because `ensureNestedFieldsExist` filled blob columns
in like ordinary structs. It now skips them.
- With a schema, a struct field that is `null` in one row and a record
in a later row failed inference. Primitives and arrays given for a
struct field are now rejected instead of being written as an all-null
struct.
- Blob structs with keys other than `data` / `uri` are rejected, which
catches typos. Class instances with `data` / `uri` are handled like
plain objects.

## Testing
- Unit tests in `__test__/blob.test.ts`: coercion of the new types,
rejection and error messages for `Blob` in the sync path, nested lists
and structs, `resolveBlobInputs` (only blob columns touched, caller data
untouched, shared `Blob` read once).
- Table tests in `__test__/table.test.ts`:
- `createTable`, `add`, and `mergeInsert` round-trip `ArrayBuffer` /
`Blob` / `File` bytes through `fetchBlobs`.
- `URL` and `{ uri: URL }` are added to the external-blob round-trip
test from #4317 (`allowExternalBlobOutsideBases`).
- Full `jest` suite passes locally after the rebase (938 passed). `pnpm
lint` is clean and `pnpm run docs` has been regenerated.

Streaming inputs (`ReadableStream`, Node `Readable`, async iterables)
remain out of scope, as the issue says.

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2026-10-05 12:35:00 -07:00
lancedb-gatefixer[bot] 3e0a1a8780 fix: reject zero vector search probes across SDKs (#4418)
`nprobes(0)` bypassed the validation used by the minimum and maximum
probe setters, allowing zero into query requests and producing
inconsistent local and remote results. Sync Python could additionally
interpret the zero maximum as an unbounded search.

Reject zero in the Rust vector-query builder and propagate its input
error through the Python vector/hybrid and Node bindings. Validate
nonpositive counts in the sync Python vector and hybrid builders so
every SDK and backend reports `nprobes must be greater than 0` before
execution. Update the Rust examples and document the positive-count
requirement.

Regression tests cover local and remote vector/hybrid builders,
rejection before remote query requests, promised TypeScript query
vectors, and positive counts replacing both probe bounds.

Validation:

- Rust probe regression tests: 2 passed.
- Focused Python query, remote, hybrid, and serialization tests: 22
passed. The four sync regression cases fail with the original setters.
- Focused TypeScript indexed local and mocked remote tests: 2 passed.
- Workspace `cargo check --features remote --tests --examples` and
Clippy passed.
- Rust formatting, Python formatting/lint, and TypeScript
build/lint/docs passed. Repository-wide `ruff check .` reports 29
existing errors in unchanged CI scripts; `ruff check python` passes.

Fixes #4388

BREAKING CHANGE: Rust `VectorQuery::nprobes` now returns `Result<Self>`
instead of `Self`; callers must handle the result, as with the existing
minimum/maximum probe setters.

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2026-10-03 21:29:47 -07:00
lancedb-gatefixer[bot] 7e979c1416 fix(node): preserve schemas for empty query results (#4423)
Empty local TypeScript queries returned a zero-row Arrow table with no
columns because `toArrow()` built the table solely from record batches.
Local streams can yield no batches, while remote streams often supply an
empty batch carrying the schema.

Expose the executed stream's schema through the native iterator and
decode it into an empty Arrow table when no batches arrive. This
preserves projected and search columns, types, nullability, and metadata
without executing another query. Document the empty-result behavior.

Validation:

- Eleven regression cases failed with the original `toArrow()`
implementation; all twelve now pass, including remote schema-only and
empty-batch responses.
- All 1,075 tests in the query, remote, Arrow, and table suites pass.
- Native build, TypeScript compilation, Rust formatting and Clippy (`-D
warnings`), TypeScript lint/formatting, and documentation generation
pass.

Fixes #4386

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2026-10-03 05:56:50 -05:00
2734e10767 fix(node): update arrow to 21 (#4362)
Thanks @vincentkoc for starting this! I was just looking into this
myself. I started with your PR and added:
- make arrow 21 the default
- widen the peer range to <22 so if they release 21.3 that'll be
included
- have to do skipLibCheck in tsconfig.json, because of flatbuffers 25
which needs TypeScript 5.7
- fix override in Symbol.hasInstance
- support new types in Arrow 20-21 (LargeList, Utf8View, BinaryView,
IntervalMonthDayNano)
- arrow-compat job in nodejs.yml that runs tests with arrow 19 and 20
(adds 2 sec)
- put the list of arrow types in one place
- update NODEJS_THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md
- regenerated typescript docs (sorry about reorderings, one time cost)
- reformat arrow.test.ts (sorry, almost all whitespace, thanks to biome.
git diff -w shows 110 lines edited)
- fixed Sliced Utf8View / BinaryView serialization error, by just
converting them to Utf8 and Binary (as our rust code would anyway)

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Co-authored-by: Vincent Koc <vincentkoc@ieee.org>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-02 15:56:46 -05:00
Bilal Atique 0a1c1a04c7 feat(node): accept an AbortSignal to cancel blob reads (#4350)
Closes #4288.

Blob reads in Node can now be cancelled. `BlobFile.read`, `readRange`
and `readRanges`, and `Table.fetchBlobs` and `fetchBlobFiles` take an
optional `{ signal?: AbortSignal }` (new `BlobReadOptions` type). When
the signal aborts, the call rejects with `signal.reason` (an
`AbortError` unless the caller gave a reason) and the native future is
dropped, so the read stops instead of running to completion. A signal
that is already aborted rejects before any read starts.

How it works:

- On the Rust side, these five methods are now sync `#[napi]` methods
that return `env.spawn_future(...)`. The future is wrapped in
`futures::future::abortable`, and the abort handle is registered with
napi's `AbortSignal::on_abort`. napi's `AbortSignal` is `Rc`-based, so
it can't be an argument of an `async fn`, which is why the methods
changed shape. The TypeScript signatures are unchanged apart from the
new optional argument.
- napi-rs installs its own `onabort` on the signal it receives, which
would overwrite a handler the caller set. So the TypeScript wrapper
passes a private `AbortController` signal to the native call for each
request, forwards the caller's abort to it with `addEventListener(..., {
once: true })`, and removes the listener when the call settles.

Tests in `table.test.ts`:

- an already aborted signal rejects on all five methods, and the handle
still reads afterwards
- a custom abort reason is what the call rejects with
- a read with a signal that never aborts returns normally and leaves no
`abort` listener on the signal
- aborting a 32 MiB `readRange` right after it starts rejects with
`AbortError`, and the same handle reads again afterwards

The Node docs under `docs/src/js` are regenerated.

I didn't add a test for where the `read()` cursor ends up after a
mid-flight abort on a local table. The remote `BlobFile` documents that
a cancelled read leaves the cursor unchanged, but I haven't confirmed
the same for the native Lance handle, so the docs don't claim it.
2026-09-29 14:01:17 -05:00
lancedb-gatefixer[bot] ad79112b8e fix(node): support LargeUtf8 and LargeBinary Arrow columns (#4287)
## Cause

The Arrow type sanitizer handled Utf8 and Binary but omitted LargeUtf8
and LargeBinary, so Arrow tables from another Arrow installation failed
schema sanitization before reaching LanceDB.

## Fix

Reconstruct both large Arrow types during sanitization. Regression tests
cover createTable and add with Arrow 15–18 and adding a LargeBinary
Arrow column to a blob table.

## Validation

- Confirmed the new table test failed before the fix with `Unrecognized
type id in schema: 20` on all four Arrow versions.
- The table, sanitizer, and Arrow Jest suites passed: 604 tests.
- `pnpm lint`, `pnpm build`, and `pnpm run docs` passed.

Fixes #4266

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2026-09-29 12:25:12 -05:00
Bilal Atique 4e3ec7cc27 feat(node): expose seek, tell, bounded read, readRanges and close on BlobFile (#4348)
Closes #4300.

The TypeScript `BlobFile` only had `size()`, `read()` and `readRange()`,
while the Rust `BlobFile` behind it also has `seek`, `tell`,
`read_up_to`, `read_ranges` and `close`. This exposes those on the Node
binding:

- `read(maxBytes?)` reads at most `maxBytes` from the cursor (Rust
`read_up_to`). Without the argument it reads to the end, as before.
- `readRanges([{ start, end }, ...])` reads several half-open ranges and
returns one buffer per range, in order. Like `readRange`, it does not
move the cursor.
- `seek(position)` and `tell()` move and report the cursor.
- `close()` releases the handle, and `isClosed()` reports it. Every
read, `seek` and `tell` after `close()` fails with "blob file is already
closed". A second `close()` does nothing. The binding keeps its own
`closed` flag, the same way the Python `BlobFile` does.

Offsets and lengths are `bigint`, like `readRange` and `size()`.
`BlobRange` is exported as a type.

The new tests in `table.test.ts` cover chunked reads with
`read(maxBytes)`, `seek` and `tell`, a negative seek position,
`readRanges` order and cursor, a `readRanges` end past the blob size,
and reads after `close()`. The Node docs under `docs/src/js` are
regenerated with `pnpm run docs`.

I left the `ReadableStream`/async iterator idea from the issue out of
this PR. The AbortSignal work in #4288 touches the same methods, so it
can follow on top of this.
2026-09-29 11:32:30 -05:00
ningsh7 ef11e44adc feat(node): expose allowExternalBlobOutsideBases in Table.add (#4317)
## Summary

- Add `allowExternalBlobOutsideBases` to the Node `AddDataOptions` and
forward it through N-API to the Rust `AddDataBuilder`.
- Document its default and local-only external blob behavior.
- Cover URI strings and URI objects, option scoping, progress callbacks,
overwrite mode, and remote rejection.

## Validation

- `pnpm test --runInBand` (21 suites passed, 1 skipped; 908 tests
passed, 6 skipped)
- `pnpm lint-ci`
- `pnpm tsc`
- `pnpm run docs`
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check`
- `CC=clang cargo clippy --profile ci -p lancedb-nodejs --all-features
-- -D warnings`

Fixes #4267
2026-09-28 20:19:36 -05:00
brekenandbreken-ai d8063545d9 fix(node): write NaN and Infinity as SQL literals in table.update (#4327)
## What's wrong

`toSQL` renders numbers with `toString()`, so `NaN` becomes `NaN` and
`Infinity` becomes `Infinity`. SQL reads those as column names:

```ts
await table.update({ values: { price: NaN }, where: "id = 1" });
// Error: Invalid input, Schema error: No field named "NaN". Valid fields are id, price.
```

`Infinity` and `-Infinity` fail the same way. The only workaround today
is `valuesSql`.

## Fix

Emit `CAST('NaN' AS DOUBLE)`, `CAST('Infinity' AS DOUBLE)` and
`CAST('-Infinity' AS DOUBLE)` for these values. Finite numbers render as
before.

## Tests

- `__test__/util.test.ts` adds `toSQL` cases for `NaN`, `Infinity` and
`-Infinity`.
- `__test__/table.test.ts` adds "should let me update float values to
NaN and Infinity", which updates a float column and reads the values
back.
- On `main`, the new cases fail with `No field named "NaN"`.
- With the fix, all of `util.test.ts` and `table.test.ts` pass (344
tests). These were run against the published
`@lancedb/lancedb@0.40.0-beta.11` native binary.
- `biome check` is clean on the changed files.

The Python SDK has the same issue in `value_to_sql`. That fix is in
#4326.

The fix was found and written by an AI agent (Breken) and checked
against the tests above.

Co-authored-by: breken-ai <312387581+breken-ai@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-28 20:11:39 -05:00
0327618a62 feat(sql): add native vector dedup and partitioned mv refresh (#4303)
## Summary

Materialize a source-preserving dedup result from an indexed, pinned
snapshot with a short declaration. The default greedy policy keeps the
smallest unassigned snapshot row ID and removes only its directly
matching neighbors: For A < B < C, an A–B–C chain without an A–C edge
keeps A and C.

```python
from lancedb import vector_dedup

view = db.create_materialized_view(
    "images_clean",
    vector_dedup("images", column="phash", distance_threshold=4),
)
cleaned = view.table
```

The Python source expression captures the source version once at
creation and
waits for the materialized result by default. Use `dataset_version=...`
for an
explicit snapshot, `with_no_data=True` for declaration only, or
`create_materialized_view_async(...)` for a job handle. AsyncConnection
supports
the same expression. It uses the existing MV REST endpoints and registry
jobs,
without opening a SQL query connection. Source names are exact
root-namespace
table names. Additional select/where/limit options are rejected for this
source.

The SQL declaration remains available:

```sql
CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW images_clean AS
SELECT * FROM vector_dedup('images', 7, 'phash', 4);
REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW images_clean;
```

This is the host-facing SQL entry point. The MV builder now accepts a
typed native vector source; the Rust SDK also supports the same
definition through `MaterializedViewDefinition::from_sql` and
`prepare_definition`; `view.refresh().execute()` executes it locally.
Hosts distribute its units using their existing job infrastructure. The
raw `vector_duplicate_pairs` source remains available separately when
callers want the pair relation.

## Implementation and contract

- Use actual Rust Lance `13.0.0-beta.15` (`db53dcf367`); the native
partition primitive computes pairs from index representations without
source-vector aggregation or a Python pair loop.
- Extend partitioned MV refresh with two dependent waves. Physical
segment/partition tasks stream pairs through a bounded external sort,
select direct representatives and write per-source-fragment bitmap
artifacts. Source-fragment tasks start after every selection receipt
completes and stream retained original rows, including blob payloads,
into uncommitted output fragments.
- Reuse normal blob write coercion and row-mask scans, including stable
row-ID translation after compaction. Null vectors, isolated rows and
source deletions are preserved correctly. Conflicting representative
decisions across overlapping index scopes fail before publication.
- Expose `dependency_units()` and `write_refresh_partition_with_inputs`
alongside the existing plan/commit API. Receipts bind
snapshot/configuration/policy/destination generation. Only a complete
accepted set can publish; unfinished units restart, completed units can
be reused. There is no pair-position checkpoint.
- Use MV format 4 for dedup results and format 3 for native pairs;
Python and TypeScript metadata readers recognize both. No source
deletion or source row-ID migration occurs.

Only same-segment/same-partition edges are covered. Quantized scores use
symmetric represented-vector distances. Result materialization requires
V2 data storage and is initially a native MV source, not an ordinary
SELECT table function. Compressed vertex masks stay in memory; edge
sorting spills to local disk. Unreferenced artifacts use normal Lance
retention/cleanup and must be retained for the job's recovery window.

## Validation

AWS Linux validation:

- Native pair/result integration matrix passed: multiple
segments/partitions, exact thresholds, empty output, cross-batch data,
single-process pair parity, source preservation, lost receipts and
publication guards.
- Blob/null-vector/pinned-deletion tests passed with both row-ID modes,
including compaction that changes physical row addresses.
- Representative policy, forced external-sort spill and
conflicting/corrupt artifact tests passed.
- Full MV regression suite: 153 passed, 2 pre-existing ignored. Rust
formatting and Clippy passed.

- Python MV suite: 47 passed; TypeScript MV suite: 11 passed. Native
bindings were rebuilt in project-local environments; formatting, lint
and TypeScript docs passed.
- Rust declaration doctests: 3 passed, including the complete local
dedup example.
- Companion host validation: 41 MV job tests passed (1 pre-existing
ignored), full workspace Clippy passed, and the complete process-level
CLI E2E suite passed (3 tests). Recovery exercises both selection and
materialization waves.
- A real CIFAR-10 pHash run used five actual registry-worker owners,
completed 32 selection + 24 materialization tasks, and retained 49,846
of 50,000 rows with identical original values and image payloads.

Host workflow performance measurements are recorded in the companion
host PR. Cross-platform CI is still running. The previous remote-test
bootstrap failed before Cargo tests with `401 Bad credentials`; the
workflow fix described below is being validated by CI. No deployment or
merge is performed.


## Python source validation

AWS tests cover automatic and explicit snapshots, physical/stable row
IDs, local
and remote creation, sync/job/async-connection APIs, delayed refresh,
strict
options and identifier quoting. The native Python extension was rebuilt
through
the project's uv/maturin backend. Ruff, Pyright and the full MkDocs
API-reference
build passed; both new public symbols are rendered.

A real 50,000-image FEv2 run disabled both Python SQL entry points and
supplied an
unreachable SQL endpoint. The new API still materialized the same 49,846
retained
rows and original image payloads. Three recorded creation/refresh jobs
completed
56 tasks each on all five registry-worker owners, and remained on source
snapshot
3 after source latest advanced to 4. No worker or server wire-protocol
changes
were needed for this client entry point.

Previous CI authentication failure:
https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/actions/runs/36334679276/job/108663151265.

## Review and CI fixes

- Validate all JSON merge source fields before projection, rejecting
unknown and duplicate names at every struct level. Missing/reordered
fields and ordinary JSON merges remain supported. A checked-in 12-case
integration matrix covers root fields, structs, lists, large lists,
fixed-size lists and map values; rejected writes leave the table version
and row count unchanged.
- Match namespace connection MV method signatures to
`MaterializedViewSource` in all four sync/async methods, fixing the
Python 3.10 import failure from runtime override checks.
- Restore the remote-test script's encrypted-CLI path: use the Actions
token for artifact download and pass `SOPHON_READ_TOKEN` under the
variable the decryption script consumes. The previous workflow omitted
that variable and attempted the private release path, failing with HTTP
401. On the final head, remote CI passes: 1,464 Rust unit tests, the
integration targets and doctests pass (3 unit tests ignored).

AWS validation for these fixes: both review reproducers failed before
their fixes and pass afterward; 55 merge tests, 29 cast tests and the
standalone 7-case admission regression pass. Python 3.10.21 imports
successfully; 90 MV/namespace tests, 14 JSON tests and four real
namespace dedup cases pass. After `794b97a0`, the native binding was
rebuilt again and the JSON suite rerun. Rust formatting/Clippy, Ruff and
Pyright pass. Sophon's locked test compilation passes against the final
SDK source for all seven affected crates. Extended runners, logs and
benchmark artifacts remain local.

Gatekeeper recommends approval on `794b97a0`, and the `breaking-change`
label is set. Final CI: **49 checks passed, 3 expected skips, no
failures or pending checks**, including remote tests, Python 3.10,
minimum dependencies and Windows ARM Rust tests. All wheel builds pass
after retrying the Linux matrix affected by transient AlmaLinux
repository-metadata 404s. All code-review threads are resolved. The PR
remains open for maintainer review and merge.

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Co-authored-by: Yang Cen <yangcen@Yangs-Mac-mini.local>
Co-authored-by: Lance Release <lance-dev@lancedb.com>
2026-09-28 18:06:55 +08:00
Wyatt Alt 604b1b583b feat: pause and resume jobs from the Python SDK (#4112)
Cancellation is the only job control the SDK exposes, and it is
terminal, so a long-running server-side job cannot be parked and picked
up again. This adds `pause_job` and `resume_job` to the Rust core
connection and the Python bindings (sync and async), posting to the
server's `/v1/jobs/pause` and `/v1/jobs/resume` endpoints.

A pause parks the job until it is resumed: its workers drain and stop.
The outcome strings mirror the server's answers — a job finalizing its
results reports `"committing"` and cannot be parked, and a resume before
the drain is confirmed reports `"still_pausing"`; both are retried
rather than failed. Resuming re-queues the job and its workers pick
their work back up from checkpoints. Local connections report the
operations as unsupported, like the rest of the jobs API.
2026-09-24 23:47:00 +08:00
Jack Ye e4d0f9e2da feat: return a cleanup job from drop_view (#4262)
Dropping a view unbinds its name and leaves the definition dataset to a
server-side cleanup job, so the two are separate events a caller may
want to wait on.

`drop_view_async` returns that job — the same shape
`drop_materialized_view_async` and `drop_function_async` already use: a
`202` carries the job id, a `200` (nothing was bound to the name) yields
an already-finished job with no id, and any other success status is an
error rather than a silent no-op.

## `drop_view` waits

`drop_view` now awaits the job before returning, so a caller who does
not want to think about cleanup gets the stronger guarantee: when it
returns, the definition really is deleted.

That is deliberately **different** from `drop_materialized_view` and
`drop_function`, which return as soon as the name is unbound and
document that content may still be deleting. The view API is the newer
one, and waiting is the semantic worth having; the other two are left
alone rather than changing behaviour already released.

## Surfaces

`Database` trait, the remote client, `Connection`, and the Python and
Node bindings — matching where `drop_materialized_view_async` is already
exposed.

Four client tests cover the accepted case reporting its job id, the
nothing-bound case reporting a finished job, a `202` without a usable
`job_id`, and an unexpected success status.
2026-09-24 00:27:20 -07:00
lancedb-gatefixer[bot] 1842c88f2c fix(node): reject unsupported object row values (#4307)
## Cause

Schema inference treated unrecognized objects as nested structs. Objects
without enumerable fields produced no field paths, so schema matching
dropped their columns before Arrow or blob conversion. Blob instances
with own fields were mistaken for struct fields.

## Fix

Walk only nonempty plain records as structs. Reject unsupported object
values in scalar fields, nested structs, and list elements with the
field path and row number. Preserve the object types already passed
through to Arrow. Support for converting these new input types is
tracked in #4270.

Nested class instances with enumerable fields previously became structs;
this change rejects them and is labeled `breaking-change`.

## Validation

- `pnpm build`
- `pnpm lint`
- `pnpm test __test__/arrow.test.ts __test__/blob.test.ts
__test__/table.test.ts --runInBand --silent` (626 passed)
- `pnpm run docs`

Fixes #4269

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generation=1 -->

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2026-09-23 14:22:40 -07:00
Jack Ye 8541d6d9df feat: add view CRUD APIs (#4236)
A view is a named query a database stores and plans on every read. It
holds no rows, which is the whole difference from a materialized view.

## API

| Verb | Route |
| --- | --- |
| `create_view(name, query, namespace_path)` | `POST
/v1/view/{id}/create` |
| `describe_view(name, namespace_path)` | `POST /v1/view/{id}/describe`
|
| `drop_view(name, namespace_path)` | `POST /v1/view/{id}/drop` |
| `list_views(namespace_path)` | `GET /v1/namespace/{id}/view/list` |

On `Connection` and the `Database` trait, with the remote client, Python
(sync and async) and Node bindings. Local databases return
`NotSupported`: the server side is Sophon's, where a view is an object
of the database manifest.

`ViewDescription` carries the defining query, the database *and
namespace path* unqualified names in it resolve against, and the schema
the query resolved to. `create_view` returns one, so a caller has the
schema without a second call.

Both defaults travel with the view because it outlives the session that
declared it: the server re-plans the stored query on every read, so a
reader resolving an unqualified name against its own defaults would read
a different table. `default_namespace_path` crosses the wire as
`default_namespace`, a path like `namespace`, absent for the root.

There is no replace: a name already taken is an error, and changing a
view is a drop followed by a create, each authorized against what it
actually touches.

Querying a view stays SQL's job. There are no rows behind a view, so
there is no `open_view` returning a `Table`.
2026-09-23 15:09:40 +08:00
Wyatt Alt 254688df96 feat: group a materialized view by GROUP BY (#4222)
A view could only map source rows one to one, or one to many through a
FROM-position item, so nothing could see all the rows sharing a key.

A view query now takes `GROUP BY expr, ...` with aggregate projections,
planned and executed by DataFusion over the lance scan. A group spans
fragments, so a grouped view is recomputed in full whenever its source
changes; each row's provenance is its group's smallest source row id.
Such a query is stored as definition format 2, so a reader that predates
grouping reports the view as unrefreshable instead of failing to parse
it.


Stacked on #4190.
2026-09-22 08:03:27 -07:00
Wyatt Alt 01ee01dbc8 feat: define a materialized view by its query, with Functions in FROM position (#4190)
A view definition was a structured record under a `kind` tag, one kind
per query shape, and a Function returning `list<struct>` was about to
add a third. That names shapes instead of describing a relation.

A materialized view is now a relation defined by a query, stored as one
canonical SQL string under a format number:

```sql
SELECT columns FROM [ns.]table [, function(args) AS alias | , UNNEST(column) AS alias]
[WHERE predicate] [LIMIT n]
```

Any other clause is refused at parse time. Older readers report the view
as unrefreshable, the pre-format layouts still read, and a legacy view
is rewritten on its next refresh that commits, rebuilt only where its
raw text meant something else under lance's parser.

A Function in FROM position yields one row per element it returns, as a
table function does in any dialect. The server stages its list output in
a hidden table and records that binding beside the query, which stays as
the user wrote it; refresh scans the staging and unnests the column, the
same operator as UNNEST over a list column the table already holds. Row
ids repeat per element, so eviction and incremental append are
unchanged. A local database refuses a Function in FROM position, since
it has no executor.
2026-09-18 12:16:25 -07:00
Wyatt Alt 5231d37f8d feat: list a table's per-row Function errors from the client (#4208)
A refresh running under a skip policy records each row it skipped, with
the failing input and the error, but the client could not read that
store: the server exposes it over SQL and, since recently, a REST route.
A user who hit per-row failures still had to open a SQL session.

`Table::function_errors` calls the route. The listing is table-addressed
with optional job and column filters, the same addressing the SQL
surface uses, so the two cannot disagree about what a table's errors
are. The two non-record signals come back as their own fields rather
than as rows: capped-fragment summaries, and whether the listing stopped
at its limit. Local tables refuse rather than answer with an empty list.

Python and Node expose the same call, with the same optional filters.
2026-09-17 05:12:50 -07:00
Jonathan HsiehandClaude Opus 5 60a1b4c219 feat(secrets): named Secrets, bindings, and namespace addressing (#4150)
Adds the client half of database-scoped named Secrets: a Secret is a
name and
an opaque value stored by the service, and a Function binds one to the
environment variable its library already reads. Secrets are addressed by
a
namespace path plus a name.

The UDF body is unchanged and stays portable — it reads `OPENAI_API_KEY`
the
way it always did, and the binding is what puts a value there:

```python
db.create_secret("openai-prod", os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"])
function = db.create_function(
    analyze_caption,
    secrets=[
        EnvVarSecret(secret_name="openai-prod", env_variable="OPENAI_API_KEY")
    ],
)
function.secret_bindings   # the Secret's name, never its value
```

- `create_secret` / `alter_secret` / `list_secrets` / `describe_secret`
/
`drop_secret` on sync, async and remote connections, with the pyo3
binding
and the Rust client behind them. Each takes `namespace_path`
keyword-only,
  defaulting to the root.
- **There is no read API, by construction rather than by policy** — no
code
  path returns a stored credential, and `describe_secret` answers with
  metadata only.
- `EnvVarSecret` is a pure local constructor: it contacts no server, so
it
cannot fail on a Secret that does not exist. It exists so that a bare
string
in that position — which would be a credential — is a `TypeError` rather
  than a plausible-looking mistake that reads identically in a diff.
- `create_function(..., secrets=[...])` carries the bindings as
`secret_bindings`: a list of `SecretBinding` tagged by `kind`, so a
later
delivery mode is a variant rather than a sibling field. The value never
travels — it is resolved by the service when the Function runs, which is
what
lets a rotation reach columns already pinned to an older
FunctionVersion.
- A binding names its Secret as a `SecretReference` of `{name,
namespace_path}`
rather than one joined string, so no delimiter has to be excluded from
every
name and segment forever, and `ClientConfig.id_delimiter` cannot
contradict
  an identity built on a fixed separator.
- A root namespace is omitted from the request body rather than sent
empty, so
  a root request is byte-identical to one from a client that predates
  namespaces. Tests pin it.

This is the client surface the design's §4 describes; the service side
lives in
sophon.

**Previously split across two PRs.** Namespace addressing was #4151,
stacked on
this one; it is folded in here so the Secret identity contract — name,
namespace path, and the binding that carries both — is reviewable as one
piece
rather than as a shape introduced and then replaced.

## Identifier safety, merged from #4189

**#4189 is merged into this branch**, so the client half of Secrets and
the
guards on the identity it puts in the URL are one PR. What it added:

- Components are checked where the identifier is built, before a request
is
  constructed. `create_secret("../jobs", value)` no longer resolves to
`/v1/jobs/create` and delivers a credential-bearing body to a route with
none
  of this one's body suppression.
- Each component is percent-encoded and joined by the delimiter, so
nothing
  inside a component can end the path segment or add one.
- A component may not be empty, a relative segment (`.`, `..`, and their
`%2e`
spellings), or the delimiter itself — the three ways a component erases
a
boundary the split has to recover. `["prod", ""]` joined to `prod$`,
which
  reads back as `["prod"]`.
- `$` is the only accepted `id_delimiter`, refused at client
construction.
`ClientConfig.id_delimiter` remains, since the identifier grammar comes
from
the Lance REST catalog standard, but a value that would produce
identifiers no
  service splits the caller's way is now an error where it was written.
- One `build_object_identifier` and one character set serve tables,
namespaces,
  Secrets, Functions and materialized views.

Components are checked for *addressability*, not a character set: the
name's
own grammar stays each object's own, so a catalog database keeps the `/`
that
`RemoteCatalog::validate_name` allows.

## Known shortcoming

`secret_bindings` is omitted from a registration body when empty, so a
client
that binds nothing sends what a client without bindings sends. When a
client
does bind a Secret and the service does not know the field, the field is
ignored: registration succeeds, the returned version carries no
bindings, and
the Function fails at execution with the variable unset, far from the
call that
asked for it.

`ServerVersion` is how this codebase refuses a feature the service is
too old
for, and it gates five features already. It does not gate this one: it
is held
per table, and registering a Function is a database-level call. Noted at
the
field in `remote/db.rs`; wiring the gate is follow-up work.

**Tests:** lancedb lib 1340 passed, `first_class_function_slice1` 9,
`first_class_function_slice2` 3, plus Python tests across both slices.
Rebased onto `main` after #4176 (OCI Function identity), #4191 (`.`/`..`
table
names) and #4195 (remote catalogs).

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2026-09-16 17:00:23 -07:00
Jack YeandXuanwo 6a07f88980 feat: add remote catalogs and Python and TypeScript bindings (#4195)
Add a `Catalog` trait and `RemoteCatalog` for managing databases,
exposed through Rust, synchronous/asynchronous Python, and TypeScript. A
remote catalog represents the server's root namespace, and each database
is one child namespace. Create/connect return ordinary LanceDB
connections, so existing table APIs work unchanged.

## Rust API

`Catalog` is an object-safe async trait with `create_database`,
`connect_database`, `list_databases`, and `drop_database`. Backend
create/connect methods return `Arc<dyn Database>`; the public
`CatalogConnection` wraps them as `Connection` values and shares its
embedding registry with those connections. `RemoteCatalog` implements
the trait; `connect_catalog` is the convenience builder, available with
the `remote` feature.

```rust
use lancedb::catalog::{
    CreateDatabaseRequest, DropDatabaseRequest, ListDatabasesRequest,
};

let catalog = lancedb::connect_catalog("https://my-server.example")
    .api_key("my-api-key")
    .execute()
    .await?;

let db = catalog.create_database(
    CreateDatabaseRequest::new("analytics").exist_ok(true),
).await?;
let connected = catalog.connect_database("analytics").await?;
let page = catalog.list_databases(
    ListDatabasesRequest::default().limit(20),
).await?;
// page.databases: Vec<String>; page.page_token: Option<String>
catalog.drop_database(
    DropDatabaseRequest::new("analytics").ignore_missing(true),
).await?;
```

Create/drop also accept a plain name for default behavior, e.g.
`catalog.create_database("analytics").await?`. Existing names fail
creation unless `exist_ok` is enabled; missing names fail drop unless
`ignore_missing` is enabled. Drop always requires an empty database.

## Python API

```python
import lancedb

catalog = lancedb.connect_catalog(
    "https://my-server.example", api_key="my-api-key"
)
db = catalog.create_database("analytics", exist_ok=True)
connected = catalog.connect_database("analytics")
page = catalog.list_databases(limit=20)
# page.databases: list[str]; page.page_token: Optional[str]
if page.page_token is not None:
    next_page = catalog.list_databases(limit=20, page_token=page.page_token)
catalog.drop_database("analytics", ignore_missing=True)
```

`connect_catalog` returns `Catalog`; create/connect return the existing
`DBConnection` API. The async equivalent is `catalog = await
lancedb.connect_catalog_async(...)`, returning `AsyncCatalog`; await
each of the same four methods, with create/connect returning
`AsyncConnection`.

## TypeScript API

```typescript
import { connectCatalog } from "@lancedb/lancedb";

const catalog = await connectCatalog("https://my-server.example", {
  apiKey: "my-api-key",
});
const db = await catalog.createDatabase("analytics", { existOk: true });
const connected = await catalog.connectDatabase("analytics");
const page = await catalog.listDatabases({ limit: 20 });
// page.databases: string[]; page.pageToken?: string
if (page.pageToken !== undefined) {
  const nextPage = await catalog.listDatabases({
    limit: 20, pageToken: page.pageToken,
  });
}
await catalog.dropDatabase("analytics", { ignoreMissing: true });
```

Create/connect return the existing `Connection` API. All four methods
are asynchronous.

## REST mapping

All paths below are relative to the catalog endpoint. `{name}` is the
logical database name encoded as one URL path component. The default
namespace delimiter is `$`, so the root identifier is encoded as `%24`.

| Catalog operation | Existing REST route | Request |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `create_database(name)` | `POST /v1/namespace/{name}/create` |
`{"mode":"Create"}`; `exist_ok=true` sends `{"mode":"ExistOk"}` |
| `connect_database(name)` | `POST /v1/namespace/{name}/describe` |
`{}`; verifies existence before returning a scoped connection |
| `list_databases(...)` | `GET /v1/namespace/%24/list` | Optional
`limit` and `page_token` query parameters |
| `drop_database(name)` | `POST /v1/namespace/{name}/drop` |
`{"mode":"Fail","behavior":"Restrict"}`; `ignore_missing=true` changes
mode to `"Skip"` |

For example, database `team/search` uses
`/v1/namespace/team%2Fsearch/create`. A paginated root listing can use
`/v1/namespace/%24/list?limit=20&page_token=a%2Fb`. The list response
retains the existing namespace wire shape,
`{"namespaces":["analytics"],"page_token":"next"}`; the SDK exposes
`namespaces` as `databases` and preserves the opaque continuation token.
An absent or empty token ends pagination. Page limits must be between 1
and 2147483647. Create/drop accept a namespace JSON response or HTTP
204.

Catalog management requests omit both `x-lancedb-database` and
`x-lancedb-database-prefix`, including values supplied through static or
dynamic headers. Returned database connections set `x-lancedb-database`
to the exact logical name and keep independent scope. API keys, OAuth or
dynamic authentication, client settings, table read consistency
settings, and an optional SQL endpoint override carry over to those
connections. OAuth cannot be combined with an API key or a custom header
provider.

For SQL through an HTTPS catalog, configure the existing SQL endpoint
contract with Rust
`.sql_host_override("grpc+tls://sql.example.com:10026")` or Python
`sql_host_override="grpc+tls://sql.example.com:10026"`. TypeScript
catalog options expose the same setting as `sqlHostOverride`. It is
inherited by created/connected databases, retained by Python connection
serialization, and initialized lazily when SQL is executed.

Create HTTP 409 maps to `DatabaseAlreadyExists`; connect/drop HTTP 404
maps to `DatabaseNotFound`, except that `ignore_missing` suppresses a
missing-database drop. Other server errors propagate. The server
enforces restricted deletion; the client never requests cascading
deletion.

Database names preserve literal slashes as part of one name. They must
be nonempty ASCII, with no control characters, surrounding whitespace,
or configured namespace delimiter, and cannot be `.` or `..`. Endpoints
must be HTTP(S) URLs without embedded credentials, query parameters, or
fragments.

## Scope

This PR adds the client API and reuses existing namespace endpoints.
Local catalogs, `__catalog` storage, location generation/sanitization,
and `__manifest` lifecycle support remain deferred; the Lance dependency
is unchanged.

The PR also runs macOS Node tests serially to avoid existing
resource-contention timeouts reproduced across recent main runs.

---------

Co-authored-by: Xuanwo <github@xuanwo.io>
2026-09-17 01:51:10 +08:00
Jack YeandXuanwo f3ef21b8ca feat: use oauth2 crate for OAuth with configurable client auth (#4181)
Stacked on #4173 (`jack/restore-oidc-flows`, base branch mirrored to
this repo so the diff shows only this change); context from review:
https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/4173#issuecomment-5674048100.
Rebase to `main` once #4173 and #4179 merge.

## What moved to the `oauth2` crate (5.0, no default features)

- Authorization URL generation and CSRF state (`authorize_url`,
`CsrfToken`)
- PKCE S256 challenge/verifier generation and code exchange
- Client-credentials, authorization-code, refresh-token, and device-code
grant request construction
- Device authorization request and the device token polling loop
(`authorization_pending`, `slow_down` +5s, expiry deadline, denial,
network backoff capped at 10s)
- Standard success/error response parsing (`RequestTokenError`)
- Token-endpoint client authentication and standards-compliant parameter
encoding (RFC 6749 2.3.1 Basic encoding)

LanceDB keeps ownership of OIDC discovery (compared `openidconnect`: no
measurable win for our 3-field metadata + strict validation, at real
dependency cost), HTTPS-or-loopback endpoint enforcement, the loopback
callback server, browser/stderr prompts, token caching and refresh
orchestration, and the dedicated hardened Azure IMDS source, which is
unchanged.

## Client authentication methods

New `ClientAuthMethod` enum (`none` | `client_secret_basic` |
`client_secret_post`), exposed in Rust, Python, and Node. Unset resolves
to `client_secret_basic` when a secret is present (RFC 6749 2.3.1
recommendation and the normal Okta confidential-app default, so a
default Okta app works without weakening its configuration) and to
`none` for public clients (PKCE/device). Explicit `none` with a secret,
or basic/post without one, is rejected. The method applies to client
credentials, code exchange, refresh, and device requests. Deliberate
behavior change: confidential clients previously always sent the secret
in the POST body; they now default to Basic (Keycloak accepts both).

No `audience`/`resource` parameters were added: the supported target is
an Okta custom authorization server with the API audience configured
server-side, so client-provided audience parameters are unnecessary;
`add_extra_param` support exists if a concrete provider contract ever
needs them.

## Device polling behavior changes (deliberate, tested)

- The first token poll now happens immediately rather than after one
interval (RFC 8628 allows both).
- Transient failures (HTTP 429, 5xx, `temporarily_unavailable`, network
errors) now retry with exponential backoff capped at 10s instead of
retrying at the fixed interval; polling never spins faster than once per
second even if a server reports a zero interval.

## Security and compatibility

- Issuer and discovered endpoints (and device verification URIs) still
require HTTPS except explicit loopback HTTP, enforced before any crate
URL type is built
- Token HTTP client keeps the hardened redirect policy that refuses
insecure redirect targets; regression test added
- Errors never embed raw response bodies (avoids leaking tokens through
parse failures); all credential types stay redacted in Debug
- Transient conditions (429/5xx/`temporarily_unavailable`) remain
retryable in device polling and hard errors elsewhere; refresh keeps
rotation and reauthentication semantics
- Existing public APIs stay source-compatible except the added
`OAuthConfig.client_auth_method` field

## Tests

Rust: client-auth methods across code
exchange/refresh/client-credentials/device (none/basic/post),
auth-method resolution and validation, transient device retries,
denial/expiry, redirect rejection, malformed-response leak check, PKCE
URL assertions, redaction. Python and Node: enum values, conversion,
unknown-method errors, config defaults.

Manual Okta validation recipe (no automated Okta credentials): create a
custom authorization server with an API audience, one confidential web
app (Basic) for authorization-code, one native app (PKCE, no secret),
one native device app; point `issuer_url` at the custom server, set
`client_auth_method` only for the POST-required case; verify token
acquisition, refresh after expiry, and `x-lancedb-credential-type: oidc`
against a LanceDB deployment. Never commit tenant URLs or secrets.

Co-authored-by: Xuanwo <github@xuanwo.io>
2026-09-16 20:11:08 +08:00
Xuanwo 7991e27f35 fix(node): prevent OAuth tests from launching browsers (#4196)
OAuth tests set `LANCEDB_OAUTH_BROWSER` inside Jest's sandbox, which
does not update the process environment read by Rust. As a result, the
native login flow launches a real browser; the [failing macOS main
job](https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/actions/runs/35067074667/job/104699667840)
ends by terminating an orphaned Safari process.

Set the no-op browser helper while loading Jest configuration, before
creating sandboxes and workers, so both local and CI tests inherit it.
Check the inherited process environment before OAuth login to catch
regressions without opening a browser. Windows uses a no-op command
fixture. Test deadlines and worker counts are unchanged.

A negative control restoring the sandbox-only assignment fails in the
new pre-login check. The full macOS test suite passes with the standard
test launcher; the Windows helper has not been executed locally. The
[first hosted macOS
run](https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/actions/runs/35071525843/job/104713928139)
passes all 843 tests (5 skipped), with no Safari process in the job log.
Further normal runs are needed to establish sustained stability.
2026-09-16 16:32:34 +08:00
mikemikimike be3215a6ae feat(nodejs): add JSON field helper (#4082)
## Issue

Fixes #4063

## Background

The Node.js SDK currently requires callers to know the Arrow extension
metadata needed to represent JSON fields. This makes a common LanceDB
schema type unnecessarily verbose and easy to get wrong.

## Changes

- Add `makeJsonField(name, nullable = true)` to create a UTF-8 Arrow
field with the `arrow.json` extension metadata.
- Re-export the helper from the public Node.js entry point.
- Add coverage for the default nullable behavior, explicit non-nullable
fields, and the extension metadata.
- Add the generated TypeDoc function page and public globals entry,
including a usage example.

## Implementation

The helper uses the existing Apache Arrow `Field` type and sets
`ARROW:extension:name` to `arrow.json`, matching the metadata convention
already used by LanceDB.

## Compatibility

This is an additive Node.js API. Existing schema construction and Arrow
behavior are unchanged.

## Verification

- `pnpm test -- arrow.test.ts --runInBand` — 236 tests passed.
- `pnpm exec biome ci lancedb/arrow.ts lancedb/index.ts
__test__/arrow.test.ts` — passed.
- `git diff --check` — passed.

## Not run / known limitations

- `pnpm build` and `pnpm run docs` were attempted after expanding the
checkout. Both are blocked locally by the native binding build/type
declarations: Cargo did not complete, and TypeDoc reported the missing
generated `nodejs/lancedb/native` module. The docs files were generated
from the updated TypeScript comments; full build and docs validation are
left to CI.
2026-09-15 18:01:42 -07:00
Colin Patrick McCabe 3a1d3be256 feat(oidc): support resource and audience (#4193)
Support configuring resource and audience for OAuth authorization, token
exchange, and refresh requests.
2026-09-15 16:35:37 -07:00
Jack Ye f12996557f feat(remote): support materialized view APIs (#4180)
## Summary

Align the experimental materialized-view HTTP transport with the
equivalent Table API shape and add remote materialized-view support
across Rust, Python, and TypeScript. This is an intentional breaking
change to the experimental materialized-view surface.

Materialized-view creation performs an initial refresh by default. The
create endpoint returns `202 Accepted` with `{ "job_id": "..." }`;
blocking SDK creation waits for that job before returning a populated
view. `with_no_data` / `withNoData` explicitly creates only the
definition and empty backing table.

## Route comparison

| Operation | Materialized-view API | Equivalent Table API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Create | `POST /v1/materialized_view/{id}/create` | `POST
/v1/table/{id}/create` |
| Describe/open | `POST /v1/materialized_view/{id}/describe` | `POST
/v1/table/{id}/describe` |
| List | `GET /v1/namespace/{id}/materialized_view/list` | `GET
/v1/namespace/{id}/table/list` |
| Refresh | `POST /v1/materialized_view/{id}/refresh` | asynchronous
Table mutation pattern |
| Drop | `POST /v1/materialized_view/{id}/drop` | `POST
/v1/table/{id}/drop` |

Create, describe, refresh, and drop identify the target in the singular
item path instead of duplicating it in the request body. Create and drop
require `202 Accepted` with a valid job ID. List is a namespace-scoped
GET with opaque pagination tokens. The Rust list API now returns view
names, matching Table listing and the existing Python and TypeScript
APIs.

## Python API changes

| Operation | Synchronous API | Asynchronous API | Table/job pattern |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Create and wait | `DBConnection.create_materialized_view(...)` |
`await AsyncConnection.create_materialized_view(...)` | Returns a
materialized-view handle after its initial-population job finishes |
| Submit create | `DBConnection.create_materialized_view_async(...) ->
Job[None]` | `await AsyncConnection.create_materialized_view_async(...)
-> AsyncJob[None]` | Matches job-returning Table mutations such as
`create_index_async` |
| Open | `DBConnection.open_materialized_view(...)` | `await
AsyncConnection.open_materialized_view(...)` | Opens the backing Table
plus its definition |
| List | `DBConnection.list_materialized_views()` | `await
AsyncConnection.list_materialized_views()` | Returns names like Table
listing |
| Refresh and wait | `MaterializedView.refresh(...)` | `await
AsyncMaterializedView.refresh(...)` | Returns the typed refresh result
after the job finishes |
| Submit refresh | `MaterializedView.refresh_async(...) ->
Job[RefreshMaterializedViewResult]` | `await
AsyncMaterializedView.refresh_async(...) ->
AsyncJob[RefreshMaterializedViewResult]` | Matches
`Table.refresh_column_async`; remote job handles expose the server job
ID |
| Drop | `DBConnection.drop_materialized_view(...)` | `await
AsyncConnection.drop_materialized_view(...)` | Matches blocking
`drop_table` |
| Submit drop | `DBConnection.drop_materialized_view_async(...) ->
Job[None]` | `await AsyncConnection.drop_materialized_view_async(...) ->
AsyncJob[None]` | Matches `drop_table_async`; remote handles expose the
server cleanup job ID |

The materialized-view handle exposes its backing Table through `.table`,
so normal Table query, search, and index APIs apply. Definition lookup
and refresh are backend-aware rather than depending on local schema
metadata. TypeScript exposes the equivalent blocking/job drop pair as
`dropMaterializedView` and `dropMaterializedViewAsync`.
2026-09-15 12:13:39 -07:00
Jack YeandXuanwo 2f88b71c21 feat: add persistent OAuth token cache and session APIs (#4182)
Stacked on #4173 (diff includes it until that merges; will rebase
after). Addresses the token-cache part of [Colin's
review](https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/4173#issuecomment-5674048100).

Adds an explicit, opt-in persistent OAuth token cache shared by Rust,
Python, and Node clients, plus `login` / `status` / `logout` session
APIs, so short-lived processes (CLIs, scripts, notebooks) reuse one
session instead of restarting a browser or device flow on every start.

- **Opt-in and minimal**: existing callers stay memory-only and lazy.
Only refresh tokens are persisted (never access tokens, never client
secrets), so there are no local token-expiry decisions to get wrong when
clocks move. Each process start performs one silent refresh grant.
- **Hardened file backend**: private directory (`0700`), per-record
files (`0600`), owner validation, symlink rejection, and atomic `rename`
replacement. Corrupt, truncated, unknown-version, or permission-invalid
records fail with actionable errors naming the file. Native keyring
backends were evaluated (keyring crate routes Linux through D-Bus/zbus:
heavy deps, headless/CI flakiness) and are deferred; the file store is
the explicit opt-in, not a downgrade from a keyring.
- **Cache key**: SHA-256 of the canonical identity (issuer, client ID,
sorted/de-duplicated scopes, flow, public/confidential), so no secret
appears in a filename and distinct identities never collide. Versioned
record schema (`version: 1`). One record per identity: last login wins,
documented.
- **Cross-process rotation locking**: per-key `fs4` file lock (`flock` /
`LockFileEx`) around the refresh critical section — acquire, reread the
durable record, refresh exactly once, atomically store the rotated
refresh token, release. The OS releases locks on process death, so
crashes cannot strand stale locks. Only confirmed
`invalid_grant`/`invalid_token` deletes a record and reauthenticates;
transport, 5xx, 429, and parse failures retain it.
- **Session APIs**: `OAuthSession::login/status/logout` in Rust,
`lancedb.remote.OAuthSession` (async) in Python, `OAuthSession` class in
Node. `status` returns non-secret metadata only. `logout` removes only
the local credential — provider revocation (RFC 7009) is a deliberate
follow-up, and local logout never terminates browser SSO. Azure managed
identity is rejected for persistence (machine identity stays in memory);
client credentials have nothing refreshable to persist and stay
memory-only.
- No CLI binary exists in this repo, so this ships library APIs plus doc
examples in all three languages.

Tests: Rust unit + mock-IdP integration (cache-key
canonicalization/separation, record
versioning/corruption/truncation/symlink/owner/perms, lock serialization
+ release, two concurrent providers proving no `invalid_grant` and
correct rotation, transient-failure retention, `invalid_grant` delete +
reauthenticate, login/status/logout lifecycle, client-credentials no-op,
IMDS rejection, secret redaction); Python lifecycle + a true
two-subprocess cross-process reuse test (second process refreshes once,
never hits the device endpoint); Node lifecycle + device-flow login
test. Local builds were skipped in development; CI validates all
bindings.

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Co-authored-by: Xuanwo <github@xuanwo.io>
2026-09-16 02:01:10 +08:00
21ecafe9ae chore: update lance dependency to v13.0.0-beta.1 (#4183)
Update the Rust workspace Lance dependencies and Java lance-core from
v12.0.0-beta.18 to
[v13.0.0-beta.1](https://github.com/lance-format/lance/releases/tag/v13.0.0-beta.1),
and refresh Cargo.lock; no compatibility fixes were required.

Validation passed: `cargo clippy --quiet --workspace --tests
--all-features -- -D warnings`, `cargo fmt --all --quiet`, and `git diff
--check`.

Also fixes the flaky Node test `when optimizing a dataset › cleanups old
versions` that failed the NPM Publish Linux test jobs on this PR. The
test captured `new Date()` (millisecond precision) in the same
millisecond as the last commit, while Lance compares version timestamps
at nanosecond precision, so that version was not pruned. The test now
waits for the clock to tick to the next millisecond before taking the
cutoff. This is a pre-existing flake on `main` since #4160, unrelated to
the Lance upgrade.

---------

Co-authored-by: Yang Cen <bubble-cal@outlook.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-15 19:13:44 +08:00
lancedb-gatefixer[bot]andXuanwo ffe94a65a1 fix(node): preserve optimize cleanup timestamp (#4160)
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generation=1 -->

## Summary

- pass the TypeScript `cleanupOlderThan` date to the native binding as
an unchanged epoch timestamp
- prune with Lance's absolute `before_timestamp` policy so dispatch and
compaction time cannot move the cutoff
- retain versions created after the supplied cutoff and document that
behavior
- add boundary and end-to-end regression coverage

## Root cause

The TypeScript layer converted the absolute date into an elapsed
duration before calling native optimize. Lance converted that duration
back into a timestamp only after compaction, which silently advanced the
requested cutoff and made the cleanup count depend on a millisecond
timing boundary.

## Validation

- `cargo fmt --all`
- `cargo clippy --quiet --features remote --tests --examples -p lancedb
-p lancedb-nodejs`
- `pnpm build`
- `pnpm lint`
- `pnpm run docs`
- `pnpm test __test__/table.test.ts --runInBand` (309 passed)

Fixes #4159

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Co-authored-by: Xuanwo <github@xuanwo.io>
2026-09-15 14:10:48 +08:00
Drew 6702e3fec1 feat(node): add blob v2 fetch and field helpers (#4155)
this PR blob v2 field helpers and reads to the Node SDK.

`blob()` marks a field as blob v2 and lets you set the storage
thresholds. Inputs can be bytes, a URI, or a data/uri struct.

Queries return descriptors. `fetchBlobs()` reads the bytes by row ID,
and `fetchBlobFiles()` gives you lazy handles for full or range reads.
`blobColumns()` lists the blob fields, including nested ones.

Fetch uses the table’s current checkout. It preserves order, duplicates,
and nulls. Holding row IDs across compaction still requires stable row
IDs.

```javascript
const db = await connect("./data");
const video = await readFile("clip.mp4");
const table = await db.createTable(
  "videos",
  [{ id: 1n, video }],
  {
    schema: new Schema([
      new Field("id", new Int64()),
      blob("video"),
    ]),
  },
);
const rows = await table.query().select(["id"]).withRowId().toArray();
const rowIds = rows.map((row) => row._rowid as bigint);
const bytes = await table.fetchBlobs("video", rowIds);
const [handle] = await table.fetchBlobFiles("video", rowIds);
const header = await handle!.readRange(0n, 65536n);

```

### Testing

- cover input validation, thresholds, nested fields, fetch ordering,
nulls, and range reads.
2026-09-11 14:46:27 -07:00
Will JonesandClaude Sonnet 5 1da5876870 ci: add spell checking (#4148)
Adds [typos](https://github.com/crate-ci/typos) as a CI check and
pre-commit hook, the same way Lance does it, so misspellings like the
ones fixed in #4146 get caught automatically going forward.

This also fixes the misspellings `typos` found across the repo (Rust,
Python, TypeScript source, comments, and generated docs), and adds a
small `.typos.toml` with `extend-words` entries for terms that are
correct but look like typos: `AKS` (Azure Kubernetes Service), `RabitQ`
(a real quantization algorithm name), `mmaped` (the actual name of a
`candle-core` API we call), and `Writeable` (from Python's
`_typeshed.WriteableBuffer`). Third-party license files are excluded.

Fixes #4147

Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-09 15:33:04 +08:00
LanceDB RobotandJack Ye 3e3878b223 chore: update lance dependency to v12.0.0-beta.15 (#4143)
Updates the Rust workspace Lance dependencies, Cargo lockfile, and Java
lance-core from v12.0.0-beta.14 to
[v12.0.0-beta.15](https://github.com/lance-format/lance/releases/tag/v12.0.0-beta.15).
No compatibility fixes were required; `cargo clippy --quiet --workspace
--tests --all-features -- -D warnings`, `cargo fmt --all --quiet`, and
`git diff --check` passed.

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Co-authored-by: Jack Ye <yezhaoqin@gmail.com>
2026-09-08 05:12:45 -07:00
Jack Ye 21f11b4463 feat!: replace get_job/job_history with describe_job/query_job_events (#4130)
A 1M-row column refresh over 200 fragments produced no visible result,
and the client could only ever say `"running"`. Everything needed to
diagnose it already existed server-side — the job registry records a
`claim`/`claim_complete` pair per fragment carrying `rows_processed` —
but none of it was reachable.

## Before

Four ways to ask about a job, none of which told you much.

```python
job = table.refresh_column_async("embedding")
job.status()               # "running". That was the entire debug surface.
db.get_job(job_id)         # state, and a spec. No result, no progress.
db.job_history(job_id)     # raw record batches, no limit, no filter
db.job(job_id)             # a handle that knew nothing
```

## After

Open a job the way you open a table; the handle answers everything.

```python
job = db.open_job(job_id)      # raises JobNotFoundError if there is no such job
```

```python
>>> print(job)
Job(
    id='job-1',
    state='failed',
    job_type='refresh_column',
    creation_ms=1757000000000,
    spec={
        "column": "embedding",
        "num_workers": 4
    },
    failure=JobFailureInfo(phase='execute', message='worker died', retryable=True),
)
```

Individual fields are there too — `job.state`, `job.job_type`,
`job.creation_ms`, `job.spec`, `job.result`, `job.failure` — and
`job.result` carries `rows_assigned` / `rows_failed` as soon as the job
succeeds, with no `wait()` required.

Per-fragment progress *while it is still running*:

```python
done = job.events(filter="state = 'claim_complete'", limit=10_000)
done.column("rows_processed").to_pylist()      # [5000, 5000, ...]
```

The handle an async action returns is the same object, one `refresh()`
away:

```python
job = table.refresh_column_async("embedding")
job.refresh()
job.state, job.result
```

TypeScript is the same experience, down to `console.log`:

```ts
const job = await db.openJob(jobId);   // rejects if there is no such job
console.log(job);                      // same multi-line layout
job.state; job.jobType; job.spec; job.result; job.failure;
const done = await job.events({ filter: "state = 'claim_complete'", limit: 10_000 });
```

## Why each piece matters

- **A result without waiting.** `rows_assigned` / `rows_failed` used to
live only on the terminal result, so a job that never terminated
reported nothing at all.
- **`limit`.** The server caps event rows at 1000 and truncates without
saying so, which silently hid most of a 200-fragment job's history.
- **`filter`.** `claim_complete` rows carry per-claim `rows_processed` —
the only progress signal that exists mid-flight.
- **Events outlive the worker.** They live in the job registry, not in
pod logs that vanish with the pod.
- **One place to ask.** `open_job` replaces `describe_job`,
`query_job_events` and `job`, so a question about a job has one answer
instead of one per calling location.
- **A missing job is an error, not a `None`.** The common case is a job
id copied out of a log, where absence is the surprise worth raising —
and it matches `open_table`.
- **Printing is the debug surface.** Every field on its own line, JSON
payloads keeping their structure. An unrefreshed handle stays on one
line, because there is nothing to lay out.
- **In-process jobs say so.** A local refresh reports `state` and leaves
the rest null rather than inventing fields it has no record for.

`list_jobs` and `cancel_job` stay as they were: one lists, the other is
a one-shot action that should not need a describe first.

## Breaking

All shipped in 0.38.0. No deprecated aliases.

| Was | Now |
| --- | --- |
| `Connection.get_job` → `describe_job` | `Connection.open_job` returns
a populated `Job`, or raises |
| `Connection.job_history` → `query_job_events` | `job.events(...)` |
| `Connection.job` | `Connection.open_job` |
| Python events → `List[pa.RecordBatch]` | `pa.Table` |
| `JobDescription.spec_json` / `.result_json` | internal; use `job.spec`
/ `job.result` |

Node's `Job` is now a TypeScript class wrapping the native handle, so it
returns an Arrow table and parsed values like Python does. New
`Error::JobNotFound` / `JobNotFoundError`; the three job exceptions are
now in the Python API reference.
2026-09-05 16:24:23 -07:00
Will JonesandClaude Opus 5 d2ca0ce0ab feat: accept multiple on columns for merge insert on remote tables (#4102)
Merge insert has always taken a list of columns to match on, and local
tables have always joined on all of them. Remote tables did not: any
list longer than one was rejected with `MergeInsertBuilder only supports
a single 'on' column`, so a composite-key upsert was impossible against
LanceDB Cloud and Enterprise from Rust, Python or TypeScript.

The remote request now carries `on` as a list and sends it as one
repeated query parameter per column — `?on=shard_key&on=id`. That is how
the lance-namespace spec encodes an array-valued `on`, so the server
receives a composite key in the shape it expects. A single column still
serializes to `?on=id`, exactly what clients sent before, so existing
callers are unaffected. A column repeated within `on` is now rejected
client-side rather than sent for the server to reject with a 400.

No binding changes were needed: `Table.merge_insert` in Python and
`Table.mergeInsert` in TypeScript already accepted a list, it just could
not reach a remote table. Both gain a test for composite keys, and the
doc comments now say what passing several columns means.

Part of
[ENT-2084](https://linear.app/lancedb/issue/ENT-2084/mergeinsertintotablerequest-support-multiple-columns-for-the).

## Example

```python
table.merge_insert(["shard_key", "id"]) \
    .when_matched_update_all() \
    .when_not_matched_insert_all() \
    .execute(new_data)
```

A row whose `id` matches an existing row but whose `shard_key` differs
is an insert, not an update.

## Not included

Java. Java callers reach merge insert through
`org.lance.namespace.LanceNamespace`, whose
`MergeInsertIntoTableRequest.on` is a single string until
lance-namespace 0.12
([lance-namespace#363](https://github.com/lance-format/lance-namespace/pull/363),
[lance#8915](https://github.com/lance-format/lance/pull/8915)). There is
nothing in this repo's Java SDK to change until the `lance-core` pin can
move.

Sending more than one column requires a server that accepts the repeated
parameter ([sophon#7571](https://github.com/lancedb/sophon/pull/7571));
an older server returns a 400 rather than silently merging on one
column.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-01 16:32:04 -07:00
Wyatt Alt d118ef168b feat: record the source namespace in a materialized view definition (#4098)
A view definition recorded its source by bare name and refresh resolved
that name at the root, so declaring a view over a namespaced source was
refused outright -- materialized views were root-only for every caller.

The definition now carries `source_namespace`, and refresh opens the
source at that coordinate. `plan` takes the namespace too: refresh
re-plans the stored definition and persists the result when it migrates,
so defaulting it there would strand the view on its next rebuild.

The stored kind is the version boundary. Root definitions keep the
`select` form byte-for-byte, so everything written before this change
reads exactly as it always did. A namespaced source is stored as
`namespaced_select`: released readers drop unknown fields and resolve a
`select` source at the root, so keeping the old kind would let a
rolled-back worker refresh a view from a same-name root table -- the new
kind routes them to their existing unrecognized-kind refusal instead.
The Python and Node definition parsers learn the new kind alongside the
Rust core.
2026-09-01 06:05:02 -07:00
Will JonesandClaude Opus 5 a87cada90e feat(node)!: require Node >= 22 and drop npm lockfiles (#4074)
The bindings are built, installed and published with pnpm everywhere,
but a parallel npm dependency graph was still being maintained beside
it. This removes it, raises the supported Node floor to the versions we
actually test, and gives Dependabot the npm coverage it was missing.

## Dropping npm

`nodejs/package-lock.json` was regenerated by `ci/update_lockfiles.sh`
on every release commit and read by nothing — no workflow runs `npm ci`
or `npm install` in `nodejs/`, and npm never publishes a lockfile in a
package tarball. It could not even agree with the real install, since
npm does not see pnpm's `overrides`. Because GitHub's dependency graph
parses `package-lock.json`, it was also reporting vulnerabilities for a
tree we neither install nor ship.

`docs/package.json`, `docs/package-lock.json` and `docs/tsconfig.json`
go too. They depend on `file:../node` and
`file:../node/node_modules/apache-arrow` — the `node/` directory was
removed long ago — the tsconfig compiles `src/*.ts` where no TypeScript
files exist, and nothing installs any of it. `docs.yml` only referenced
the lockfile to configure an npm cache for an install it never ran.

Two `workflow_dispatch` workflows for regenerating those lockfiles are
removed as well. Both were already broken: they `uses:` composite
actions at `.github/workflows/update_package_lock{,_nodejs}` that do not
exist, so dispatching either failed immediately.

The remaining `npx` calls become direct `node_modules/.bin/...`
invocations. These were already running locally installed binaries
rather than resolving anything, but naming the binary removes the npm
CLI from the loop and does not depend on which Node version is active.
`dev.yml`'s commitlint check was the last place doing real npm
dependency resolution — an unpinned `npm install
@commitlint/config-conventional` that also bypassed the
`minimumReleaseAge` hold configured for `nodejs/` — and is now a pinned
`pnpm dlx`.

## Node support

Node 18 and 20 both reached end-of-life, in April 2025 and April 2026.
The matrix moves to 22, 24 and 26, and `engines` rises from `>= 18` to
`>= 22` so the declared floor is one the matrix actually covers. Node 22
is LTS until April 2027; 24 is LTS; 26 is Current and becomes LTS in
October 2026.

This also removes the reason the workflows reached for `npx` in the
first place: pnpm 11 requires Node >= 22.13, which every matrix version
now satisfies.

The prebuilt-binary smoke test in `npm-publish.yml` moves from Node 20
to Node 22 — the floor, where a napi ABI problem would surface first —
rather than fanning out across all three, to keep the publish matrix
from tripling.

## Dependabot

There were no npm-ecosystem entries at all, which is why the advisories
behind #4073 went unnoticed. Both pnpm lockfiles are now watched —
`nodejs/` and `nodejs/examples/`, which is a separate install — using
the same `lockfile-only` strategy as the existing cargo and pip entries,
so version ranges in `package.json` are left alone.

## Pre-commit biome

The hook ran `npx @biomejs/biome@1.8.3` while `nodejs/package.json`
resolved 1.9.4. The two disagree about formatting, so the hook rejected
code that `pnpm lint` accepts, and failed on unmodified `main` for
anyone touching `nodejs/`. It now uses the pnpm-managed biome, which
fixes the drift with no source changes.

## Testing

`dev.yml`'s commitlint job does not check out the repo, so it runs in an
empty workspace, and I could not verify `pnpm/action-setup` there
locally. It triggers on `pull_request_target`, so this PR exercises it
directly — worth confirming green before merge. I did verify the `pnpm
dlx` invocation itself locally: it accepts a conventional title and
rejects a non-conventional one with exit 1.

Node 26 is new enough that the examples job may surface gaps in prebuilt
native binaries (`onnxruntime-node`, `sharp`) before their maintainers
publish for it.

## Not included

`nodejs/examples/` still pins `sharp: "0.33.5"` and has its own audit
findings. Raising the Node floor unblocks that work — sharp 0.35
requires Node >= 20.9, which the matrix now satisfies — but it is a
dependency bump rather than tooling cleanup, so it is left separate.

## Breaking changes

`@lancedb/lancedb` now requires Node >= 22; previously >= 18. The
`@types/node` peer range moves from `>=18` to `>=22` to match. Users on
Node 18 or 20 must upgrade their runtime; both have been end-of-life for
some time. Existing installs are unaffected, since `engines` is only
checked on install.

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2026-08-28 09:47:47 -07:00
lancedb-gatefixer[bot]andXuanwo 9d3962686e fix(node): accept Arrow metadata across JavaScript realms (#3904)
## Summary

- accept genuine Arrow metadata maps created in another JavaScript realm
- validate every metadata entry and clone it into a local Map
- cover an Arrow 15 VM-realm table through the public fromDataToBuffer
boundary
- retain structural typing for nested and dictionary Arrow data

## Root cause

The sanitizer used a local-realm instanceof Map check for schema and
field metadata. A genuine Map created in another JavaScript realm has
the required internal Map state but fails that identity check, so
fromDataToBuffer rejected the foreign table before serializing its rows.

## Scope

This fixes the distinct JavaScript-realm sanitizer failure identified
during review. It does not establish the cause of the S3/compaction
panic reported in #1525, so that issue remains open.

## Validation

- pnpm test --runInBand (707 passed, 5 skipped)
- pnpm test --runInBand __test__/arrow.test.ts (189 passed)
- pnpm build
- pnpm lint
- pnpm run docs

Related to #1525

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Co-authored-by: Xuanwo <github@xuanwo.io>
2026-08-27 23:35:02 +08:00
lancedb-gatefixer[bot]andXuanwo 2deccf21cf fix(node): read Python embedding metadata (#3836)
## Summary

- normalize Python snake_case and TypeScript camelCase embedding
metadata
- use the normalized metadata for schema validation and embedding lookup
- cover appending through `Table.add()` with a Python-authored schema
fixture

## Root cause

Python writes embedding source and vector column names as
`source_column` and `vector_column`, but the TypeScript SDK only read
`sourceColumn` and `vectorColumn`. The missing source name reached the
add path as `undefined`, preventing JavaScript rows from being embedded
and appended.

## Validation

- `pnpm lint`
- `pnpm test __test__/embedding.test.ts __test__/arrow.test.ts
__test__/registry.test.ts --runInBand` (201 passed, 1 skipped)
- `pnpm build`
- `pnpm run docs`

Fixes #1289

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Co-authored-by: Xuanwo <github@xuanwo.io>
2026-08-27 13:42:30 +08:00
lancedb-gatefixer[bot] 5153e5a023 fix(node): preserve JSON field metadata when adding data (#4064)
## Summary

- preserve Arrow field metadata when matching record data to a provided
schema
- retain metadata on partially reconstructed nested struct fields
- add a regression test for lance.json metadata through Arrow IPC
serialization

## Root cause

The TypeScript schema inferrer rebuilt fields selected from a provided
schema without copying their metadata. JSON columns therefore kept their
LargeBinary physical type but lost the lance.json extension marker
before insert, causing the schema mismatch reported in the issue.

## Validation

- pnpm lint
- pnpm build
- pnpm tsc
- pnpm run docs
- pnpm test --runInBand (18 suites and 798 tests passed; 5 tests
skipped)

Fixes #4062

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2026-08-26 16:18:57 -07:00
lancedb-gatefixer[bot]andXuanwo 9b825c5f29 fix(node): route auto search using table embeddings (#3832)
## Summary

- Resolve automatic string-search routing from the active table schema
whenever the query executes.
- Defer embedding-provider construction while leaving explicit vector
and FTS routes unchanged.
- Cover unrelated global registrations and metadata transitions across
repeated executions of one query builder.

## Root cause

LocalTable.search used the number of globally registered embedding
providers to choose between vector and full-text search. A provider
registered for any other table therefore sent a plain FTS table down the
vector path. A wrapper-lifetime metadata snapshot avoided that
contamination but became stale after time travel or read-consistency
refreshes. The query now records fluent builder operations and creates
the appropriate native vector or FTS query from the active schema on
each execution.

## Validation

- pnpm build
- pnpm tsc
- pnpm lint
- pnpm run docs
- pnpm test --runInBand (681 passed, 5 skipped)

Fixes #1557

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2026-08-26 10:08:48 +08:00
lancedb-gatefixer[bot]andXuanwo 302b21aa94 test(node): cover nested PDF metadata queries (#3827)
## Summary

- add an end-to-end Node regression matching LangChain PDFLoader
metadata
- verify create/query round trips rich nested `loc` and `pdf.info`
fields against the currently configured Apache Arrow peer

## Root cause

LanceDB v0.14 delegated nested object inference to Apache Arrow. Nested
strings were dictionary-encoded with colliding dictionary IDs, so
serializing query results as an IPC file failed with a
dictionary-replacement error. Current `main` recursively infers nested
fields and avoids those invalid dictionaries, but the reported LangChain
path had no end-to-end regression coverage.

## Validation

- `pnpm build`
- `pnpm lint`
- `pnpm run docs`
- `pnpm test --runInBand` (678 passed, 5 skipped)

Fixes #1963

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2026-08-26 06:42:29 +08:00
lancedb-gatefixer[bot]andXuanwo 35b5d015ac fix(node): preserve embedding registration in server bundles (#3806)
## Summary

- lazily initialize built-in OpenAI and Hugging Face providers when
consumers call the public embedding registry API
- choose automatic vector versus FTS search from embedding metadata on a
fresh pinned table revision for every execution
- expose automatic string searches as an `AutoQuery` with only
operations common to both native query families
- keep the registry shared and built-in registration safe across
duplicated module graphs

## Root cause

Nitro treats dependency modules as side-effect-free and removes the bare
OpenAI provider import from its generated route. Registration therefore
never runs, so `getRegistry().get("openai")` remains undefined even when
the registry itself is shared globally. Bundlers may also duplicate the
provider and registry module graphs.

The public embedding entry point now initializes built-in providers only
when `getRegistry()` is explicitly called, keeping initialization on a
live path that Nitro retains. Each terminal automatic-search execution
pins the exact table revision visible at dispatch, reads embedding
metadata and computes an embedding from that snapshot, replays the
builder operations, and constructs and executes the selected native
query against the same snapshot. Pinned native snapshots execute locally
when namespace pushdown cannot carry their revision, while remote
snapshots are seeded directly from one version-and-schema response. The
public `AutoQuery` builder exposes only the operations shared by FTS and
vector search, so runtime class narrowing cannot expose invalid
vector-only methods. Repeated built-in registration replaces stale
constructors from duplicated module graphs while public `register()`
retains its duplicate-alias error.

## Validation

- `cargo fmt --all`
- `cargo check --quiet --features remote --tests --examples`
- `cargo clippy --quiet --features remote --tests --examples`
- `pnpm build`
- `pnpm lint`
- `pnpm run docs`
- `pnpm test --runInBand` (783 passed, 5 skipped)
- serial examples suite with a local OpenAI mock (11 passed), including
`sentence-transformers.test.ts`
- packaged Nitro 2.13.4 server route using the reported imports returned
`{"registered":true}`
- fresh-process FTS fixture initialized both public built-ins and
confirmed automatic string search still returned the indexed row
- schema-consistency regressions cover read-consistency refresh,
checkout, checkoutLatest, restore, runtime class narrowing, concurrent
overwrite during embedding computation, and reused automatic-search
builders
- focused regressions confirm pinned native snapshots bypass unversioned
namespace pushdown and remote snapshots use one describe request

Fixes #2429

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2026-08-26 04:17:32 +08:00
lancedb-gatefixer[bot] c1a8c3f089 fix(node): validate inferred types across records (#3786)
## Summary

- compare inferred Arrow types by their semantic representation across
records
- throw the schema inference error when a later record has an
incompatible type
- cover compatible and incompatible multi-record inference across
supported Arrow versions

## Root cause

Schema inference compared newly allocated Arrow DataType objects by
identity, so equivalent inferred types did not compare equal. The
mismatch path also constructed an Error without throwing it, which
silently accepted incompatible values.

## Validation

- pnpm test __test__/arrow.test.ts --runInBand (176 tests passed)
- pnpm lint
- pnpm build
- pnpm run docs

Fixes #3781

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2026-08-24 16:41:05 -07:00
Will JonesandClaude Opus 5 fce45ba9fc feat(nodejs): add listTables, deprecate tableNames (#4041)
`table_names` is being replaced by `list_tables` across the SDKs, but
TypeScript only had `tableNames`. This PR adds `listTables`, which
returns a page of table names together with the token that resumes after
it, and marks `tableNames` and `TableNamesOptions` deprecated in favor
of it.

It binds the `Connection::list_tables` that already exists, so nothing
in the Rust API changes and nothing existing breaks. `pageToken` is
documented as opaque rather than as a table name, since what resumes a
listing is the database's to decide — that keeps callers off a detail
that is going to change.

Stacked on #4040, which fixes a table being dropped at every page
boundary. The page-walking test here needs that fix to pass. Review the
last commit only until #4040 lands.

## Example

```ts
const names = [];
let pageToken = undefined;
do {
  const page = await conn.listTables({ pageToken, limit: 100 });
  names.push(...page.tables);
  pageToken = page.pageToken;
} while (pageToken);
```

A namespace can be listed by passing its path first, mirroring
`tableNames`:

```ts
const page = await conn.listTables(["analytics"], { limit: 100 });
```

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2026-08-24 16:25:14 -07:00
Wyatt Alt 68749ecfa3 feat(nodejs): materialized view bindings (#3935)
Exposes materialized views to TypeScript: createMaterializedView,
openMaterializedView and listMaterializedViews on Connection, and a
MaterializedView handle carrying the parsed definition and
refresh({full, sourceVersion}), which returns the typed refresh result.
select accepts column names, [alias, expression] pairs, or a record of
the
same; the definition reads back off the stored schema, so a reopened
handle
needs no side channel. Remote connections surface the core's
not-supported
error up front.

The napi crate needed the same recursion-limit raise as the core crate:
the
refresh future's type graph overflows the default trait-recursion depth.


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2026-08-21 23:48:43 -07:00
Drew Gallardo e98d8ac685 feat!: rename branch merge to cherry_pick (#3986)
This PR is a **breaking** rename of #3686.

merge reads like git merge w/ three-way, replay history, combine two
lines of work. That is not this API.

This call takes one additive change on a branch and lands it on main.
New column, including a blob column. Main's existing columns are not
rewritten. If it cannot land, you get `status="failed"` and
`diff.errors`, not a merge conflict to resolve.

Cherry-pick is terminology that aligns more with that.

```python
table = db.open_table("images")
table.branches.create("exp")
exp = table.branches.checkout("exp")

exp.add_columns({"tag": "cast('draft' as string)"})

diff = table.branches.diff("exp")
preview = table.branches.cherry_pick("exp", dry_run=True)
result = table.branches.cherry_pick("exp")

if result["status"] == "cherryPicked":
    print("landed at", result["mainVersionAfter"])
elif result["status"] == "failed":
    print(result["diff"]["errors"])
```

### Behavior

- Remote / Enterprise only. Local still NotSupported.
- HTTP 409 is not an exception. It is Ok with status="failed" and
diff.errors (CherryPickError).
- Unknown error / status codes still parse as Unknown.
- Requests are not retried. 409 is final and carries the body.
- Endpoint is POST /v1/table/{id}/branches/cherry_pick/.
- merge_insert and Table.merge are unchanged.

### Testing
- `cargo test -p lancedb --features remote diff_branch`
- `cargo test -p lancedb --features remote cherry_pick`
- `pytest python/python/tests/test_remote_db.py -k cherry_pick`
- node `remote.test.ts` diffs / cherry-picks path
2026-08-21 23:37:12 -07:00
Wyatt AltandClaude Opus 5 7fd881bbe3 fix(nodejs)!: key parsed embedding configs by vector column (#4003)
Two bugs in Node's reading of the embedding_functions schema metadata.

First, parseFunctions keyed its result map by function name, so a table
whose metadata configures the same function for two vector columns came
back with only the last one. It now keys by the vector column, the
convention Python's parser already uses.

Second, Node could not read metadata written by the Python bindings at
all, which spell the keys snake_case: configs parsed with both columns
undefined, breaking embedding application on add() and leaving only
query-side embedding working. The parse now accepts both spellings.

Both fixes land in one shared parser used by every reader --
parseFunctions and the makeArrowTable schema validator, which had its
own private camelCase-only parse -- so the wire contract cannot fork
between entry points. A config naming no source or vector column is an
error at the boundary rather than a default downstream, as are two
configs claiming one column. The "vector" fallback remains only on the
optional field of user-supplied configs.

Breaking: parseFunctions is exported and its map keys change from
function name to vector column.

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2026-08-22 00:23:40 +08:00