If you add timezone information in the Field annotation for a datetime
then that will now be passed to the pyarrow data type.
I'm not sure how pyarrow enforces timezones, right now, it silently
coerces to the timezone given in the column regardless of whether the
input had the matching timezone or not. This is probably not the right
behavior. Though we could just make it so the user has to make the
pydantic model do the validation instead of doing that at the pyarrow
conversion layer.
Closes#721
fts will return results as a pyarrow table. Pyarrow tables has a
`filter` method but it does not take sql filter strings (only pyarrow
compute expressions). Instead, we do one of two things to support
`tbl.search("keywords").where("foo=5").limit(10).to_arrow()`:
Default path: If duckdb is available then use duckdb to execute the sql
filter string on the pyarrow table.
Backup path: Otherwise, write the pyarrow table to a lance dataset and
then do `to_table(filter=<filter>)`
Neither is ideal.
Default path has two issues:
1. requires installing an extra library (duckdb)
2. duckdb mangles some fields (like fixed size list => list)
Backup path incurs a latency penalty (~20ms on ssd) to write the
resultset to disk.
In the short term, once #676 is addressed, we can write the dataset to
"memory://" instead of disk, this makes the post filter evaluate much
quicker (ETA next week).
In the longer term, we'd like to be able to evaluate the filter string
on the pyarrow Table directly, one possibility being that we use
Substrait to generate pyarrow compute expressions from sql string. Or if
there's enough progress on pyarrow, it could support Substrait
expressions directly (no ETA)
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Co-authored-by: Will Jones <willjones127@gmail.com>
For object detection, each row may correspond to an image and each image
can have multiple bounding boxes of x-y coordinates. This means that a
`bbox` field is potentially "list of list of float". This adds support
in our pydantic-pyarrow conversion for nested lists.
Use pathlib for local paths so that pathlib
can handle the correct separator on windows.
Closes#703
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Co-authored-by: Will Jones <willjones127@gmail.com>
This PR adds issue templates, which help two recurring issues:
* Users forget to tell us whether they are using the Node or Python SDK
* Issues don't get appropriate tags
This doesn't force the use of the templates. Because we set
`blank_issues_enabled: true`, users can still create a custom issue.
This forces the user to replace the whole FTS directory when re-creating
the index, prevent duplicate data from being created. Previously, the
whole dataset was re-added to the existing index, duplicating existing
rows in the index.
This (in combination with lancedb/lance#1707) caused #726, since the
duplicate data emitted duplicate indices for `take()` and an upstream
issue caused those queries to fail.
This solution isn't ideal, since it makes the FTS index temporarily
unavailable while the index is built. In the future, we should have
multiple FTS index directories, which would allow atomic commits of new
indexes (as well as multiple indexes for different columns).
Fixes#498.
Fixes#726.
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Co-authored-by: Chang She <759245+changhiskhan@users.noreply.github.com>
Closes https://github.com/lancedb/lance/issues/1738
We add a `flatten` parameter to the signature of `to_pandas`. By default
this is None and does nothing.
If set to True or -1, then LanceDB will flatten structs before
converting to a pandas dataframe. All nested structs are also flattened.
If set to any positive integer, then LanceDB will flatten structs up to
the specified level of nesting.
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Co-authored-by: Weston Pace <weston.pace@gmail.com>
Most recent release failed because `release` depends on `node-macos`,
but we renamed `node-macos` to `node-macos-{x86,arm64}`. This fixes that
by consolidating them back to a single `node-macos` job, which also has
the side effect of making the file shorter.
Note this currently the filter/where is only implemented for LocalTable
so that it requires an explicit cast to "enable" (see new unit test).
The alternative is to add it to the Table interface, but since it's not
available on RemoteTable this may cause some user experience issues.
