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Adityaj0 d742b174c4 fix: hybrid search silently ignores .offset() (#3769)
## Summary

`LanceHybridQueryBuilder` (sync hybrid search,
`table.search(query_type="hybrid")`) silently ignored `.offset()`.
`self._offset` was never forwarded to the vector/FTS sub-queries and
never applied when slicing the final combined/reranked result, so
`.offset(N)` behaved identically to `.offset(0)` — no error, just wrong
pagination.

Fixes #3765

## Changes

- `_create_query_builders()`: each sub-query now fetches `limit +
offset` rows so there's enough data to slice the correct window out of
after combining/reranking.
- `_combine_hybrid_results()` / `to_arrow()`: the final table is sliced
with `offset=self._offset` instead of always starting at 0.

## Test plan

- [x] New regression test `test_hybrid_query_offset` in
`python/python/tests/test_hybrid_query.py`
- [x] `uv run --extra tests pytest python/tests/test_hybrid_query.py
-vv` — 13 passed
- [x] `uv run --extra dev ruff format` / `ruff check` — clean

Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Will Jones <willjones127@gmail.com>
2026-08-17 11:38:38 -07:00
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LanceDB Python SDK

A Python library for LanceDB.

Installation

pip install lancedb

Pre-Haswell x86_64 hosts: lancedb-compat

The default lancedb wheel targets x86-64-haswell (AVX2 + FMA + F16C) for full performance on modern hardware. Pre-Haswell hosts — Intel Sandy Bridge / Ivy Bridge / Westmere; AMD Bulldozer / Piledriver / Steamroller — don't have AVX2 and crash with Illegal instruction at import lancedb.

For those hosts, install the lancedb-compat package instead:

pip install lancedb-compat

Same Python API (import lancedb works as usual). The compat wheel is compiled at the x86-64-v2 baseline (Nehalem-class) and uses runtime SIMD dispatch in the embedded lance crate to pick the right kernel tier (scalar / AVX / AVX+FMA / AVX2+FMA / AVX-512) at load time, so it still goes fast on modern hardware while running cleanly on the pre-Haswell silicon. Use lance.simd_info() from Python to verify which tier was selected.

lancedb and lancedb-compat install to the same lancedb/ namespace and conflict at install time. Pick one. To switch, pip uninstall lancedb first, then pip install lancedb-compat (or vice-versa).

If you need a custom baseline (or lancedb-compat isn't yet published for your platform), build from source with the override:

RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=x86-64-v2" maturin build --release
pip install ./target/wheels/lancedb-*.whl

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pip install --pre --extra-index-url https://pypi.fury.io/lancedb/ lancedb

Usage

Basic Example

import lancedb
db = lancedb.connect('<PATH_TO_LANCEDB_DATASET>')
table = db.open_table('my_table')
results = table.search([0.1, 0.3]).limit(20).to_list()
print(results)

Development

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