- Full-text search: the multiline query chain was not parenthesized, so
pasting it raised an IndentationError.
- Pandas async: the example chained .select onto the coroutine an async
search returns; it now awaits the search first, and its test asserts
the result.
- Pydantic: the example searched with a string, which needs a full-text
index or an embedding function the table does not have; it searches
with a vector, as the page describes, and asserts the model returned.
- PyTorch: the column-selection example selected columns the page's
table lacks and printed a schema from a batch that is a dict. It now
builds its own table and prints the batch's columns.
- Data evolution: the setup used the test's tmp_db fixture, an optional
data argument and an unimported numpy. It now needs only `db`, which
the page says how to open.
- Python's table_exists was said to work on namespace connections; on
one from connect_namespace("dir" or "rest") it fails with an
AttributeError. The page now shows the supported checks: open the
table and handle the error each connection raises, or read every page
of a listing.
- Dropping a missing table was said to raise by default. A local
database raises; a deployment may report success, depending on its
catalog, and its Python connection takes no ignore_missing.
- A deployment's catalog may refuse cloning altogether; where cloning
works, it is shallow.
- A dropped column was called unrecoverable. Restoring a version from
before the drop brings it back until cleanup prunes that version.
- The namespace page stored data in a `data/` directory that does not
exist, presented a recommended character set as enforced, and its
Python listing comments showed lists where the calls return response
objects. Its namespace examples now run as tests.
- The storage tip offered the table's reported options as the effective
ones; they omit what the table inherits from its connection.
The quickstart called a refresh that raises on a deployment before it
showed the alternative, trained on columns only optional steps created,
and read its image from a path inside the documentation repository.
The core journey is now install, connect, create, add, search and
filter, and its code is tested unchanged against a local database and,
when connection variables are set, a deployment. Enterprise readers get
the settings they need before the connection code. Computed columns,
images and training are optional extensions that each start from the
core table: the computed column shows the embedded refresh beside the
deployment's job, and says that a deployment must enable computed
columns; the image step downloads the picture into ./data first and the
code reads it from there in every language; the training step derives
the features it trains on.
The Enterprise connection examples now read the database URI from
LANCEDB_URI and the endpoint from LANCEDB_HOST_OVERRIDE, with the API
key and region beside them, the convention the rest of the site uses.
Without an endpoint they stop rather than fall back to one. Their tests
check both.
The REST API reference used LANCEDB_URI for the HTTP endpoint and listed
and created tables at routes the server does not serve. It now uses
LANCEDB_HOST_OVERRIDE, lists tables at /v1/table/, creates `words` from
an Arrow IPC stream, and describes it to confirm the write.
Remove scaffold that accidentally caused the post-merge Rust
license-header check to fail. Include `docs/web-tests/**` in the PR
workflow paths so future docs test changes run the license checks before
merge.
Validation: `cargo fmt --all`; `git diff --check`;
license-header-checker v1.5.0 using all four workflow commands on a
clean checkout; Cargo metadata confirms all six Rust example targets
remain unchanged.
Move the public website pages into `docs/web` beside the SDK, with
shared navigation and executable example sources in `docs/web-tests`.
The combined website is assembled by
[lancedb/docs#355](https://github.com/lancedb/docs/pull/355), with six
Enterprise replacements from
[lancedb/sophon#7681](https://github.com/lancedb/sophon/pull/7681).
This includes Function guidance, runnable Quickstarts, regenerated
snippets, production contact/demo fixes, the legacy SQL route, and the
LeRobot redirect. LeRobot remains attributed to Geneva; all 34 Geneva
pages remain in the docs repository until Function officially launches.
Materialized-view guidance follows the full rebuild refresh introduced
by #4373: local refresh writes the complete result, has no `full`
argument, supports `source_version`, and no longer requires stable row
IDs. Deployment SQL refresh options and stable-ID setup are qualified by
version/configuration. Function input guidance distinguishes ordinary
stored columns from computed inputs supported by newer deployments.
**Validation:** independently accepted local checks include 95 Python
tests (real Enterprise excluded), eight TypeScript tests, Rust
Quickstart, snippet parity, typos, deterministic assembly, Mint
validation and links/anchors/redirects. The combined baseline retains
all 181 production routes and 17 legacy redirects. Examples ran locally
against source-built Python SDK 0.40.0b13; existing GitHub workflows do
not run `docs/web-tests`. New main at `069b2f7d` is 0.41.0b0 and adds
computed Function inputs; that SDK was not exercised by the accepted
tests. Latest prose corrections receive focused site validation.
**Merge/rollout:** merge this and #7681 before #355's combined CI, which
reads producer `main`. This is migration infrastructure: section
overlays, source-owned skills and automatic versioned paired releases
remain follow-ups. The current manual publisher is transitional. Hosted
validation, a supported SDK/Enterprise release pair and a real
Enterprise walkthrough remain pending.
Production Mintlify watches `lancedb/docs:deploy-freeze`, directory
`docs`; preserve that source through review. The separate SDK GitHub
Pages reference workflow rebuilds on main merges.
**Updated-head CI (9a50f8db):**
[Typos](https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/actions/runs/37654185443/job/112904990558),
[PR
title](https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/actions/runs/37654179507/job/112904974595)
and
[Aikido](https://app.aikido.dev/featurebranch/scan/215386145?groupId=74229)
pass. Critical findings in the example lockfiles were patched: all Sharp
copies use 0.35.5, protobufjs 7.6.6, tar 7.5.22, quinn-proto 0.11.19,
zerovec 0.11.8 and zerovec-derive 0.11.6. The SDK's product dependencies
are unchanged. The revised lockfiles pass eight TypeScript examples,
HuggingFace decode/resize/crop/rescale/normalize plus AVIF roundtrip,
and Rust Quickstart. Aikido passing does not mean every advisory is
cleared; npm still reports 29 high and five moderate advisories in the
example dependency graph. No scanner bypass or suppression was added.
The Function prose correction passes combined/standalone Mint,
deterministic assembly, routes and assets. The revised 325-file site
checksum is
`175bec06864abb400dd292e667ba93448c0479b8359fd7bf6146afabf9040647`. This
PR remains open for independent review; further merges are on hold.
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Co-authored-by: Brendan Clement <brendan.clement@lancedb.com>
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