FAQ content is redistributed into the pages it actually belongs to: license
and Parquet-comparison notes into the Lance format page, scale guidance into
Architecture, index-necessity and refine_factor guidance into the vector
index page, the multiprocessing/fork gotcha into SDKs and SQL, and the
weak-consistency recommendation into Consistency. General query-performance
issues are dropped since Explain and Explain Analyze already cover that
ground.
The new Support page under Deployment carries the OSS Discord and Enterprise
support-email channels that used to live in Troubleshooting.
Indexing loses its wrapper group -- Overview, Vector Index, FTS Index, Scalar
Index and Build & Repair sit directly in Maintenance now, followed by
Compaction, Cleanup and Background Jobs at the same level.
Cleanup is new, split out of Compaction: pruning old versions is a distinct
Enterprise job (cleanup) from merging files (compact), even though optimize()
in OSS bundles both into one call. The retention, disk-usage and
failed-transaction material that used to live under Compaction's umbrella
moves with it.
Background Jobs is new and covers what nothing else does: the job types a
deployment runs on its own -- WAL/SPFresh maintenance, cache prewarming,
registry archiving and metering export, and the object-teardown job that
follows a namespace or view drop. Every entry is grounded against the
job-coordinator's public job_type constants, not the internal two-letter wire
codes used for registry storage. Five existing pages (Build & Repair, Table,
Function, Column Refresh, Materialized View Refresh) gain a one-line job-type
note rather than duplicating a page for job types they already document.
Storage folds into Deployment: storage/index (choosing a backend) and
storage/configuration (configuring one) merge into a single Storage page --
they never overlapped, one is the decision and one is the how-to -- and move
under Deployment along with Monitoring. Cloud Providers loses its nesting;
its two pages plus Azure sit flat, and the former Overview is retitled
Deployment Models so it doesn't collide with the group's own Overview entry.
Redirects cover every moved URL.
Jack Ye