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lancedb/nodejs/lancedb/materialized_view.ts
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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.
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// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright The LanceDB Authors
import { RefreshMaterializedViewResult } from "./native";
import { Table } from "./table";
/** Schema metadata key holding a materialized view's definition. */
export const DEFINITION_META_KEY = "mv.definition";
/**
* The newest stored layout this version reads: `{"format": N, "query": "<SQL>"}`,
* format 2 being a query with `GROUP BY`.
*/
export const DEFINITION_FORMAT = 2;
/**
* The query that defines a materialized view, as stored:
* `SELECT columns FROM [ns.]table [, function(args) AS alias | , UNNEST(column) AS alias]
* [WHERE predicate] [GROUP BY expr, ...] [LIMIT n]`. A Function in `FROM`
* position yields one row per element it returns.
*/
export interface MaterializedViewDefinition {
/** The defining query, in the canonical spelling the server stores. */
query: string;
}
/**
* The view's columns: column names, `[alias, SQL expression]` pairs, or a
* record of the same. A bare name projects itself.
*/
export type MaterializedViewSelect =
| (string | [string, string])[]
| Record<string, string>;
/**
* @internal Reject a numeric option N-API would otherwise silently coerce:
* `Infinity` reaches Rust as 0, `1.5` as 1.
*/
export function validateNonNegativeInteger(
value: number | undefined,
name: string,
): void {
if (value !== undefined && !(Number.isSafeInteger(value) && value >= 0)) {
throw new Error(`${name} must be a non-negative integer`);
}
}
/** @internal Quote a column name as a Lance SQL identifier (backticks). */
function quoteIdentifier(name: string): string {
return "`" + name.replace(/`/g, "``") + "`";
}
/**
* @internal Normalize a select argument into `[alias, expression]` pairs.
* A bare name projects itself and is quoted, so any valid column name works;
* pair and record entries are kept verbatim because their right side is an
* expression.
*/
export function normalizeSelect(
select?: MaterializedViewSelect,
): [string, string][] | undefined {
if (select === undefined) {
return undefined;
}
if (Array.isArray(select)) {
return select.map((item) =>
typeof item === "string" ? [item, quoteIdentifier(item)] : item,
);
}
return Object.entries(select);
}
/** @internal Parse a definition off a table's stored schema metadata. */
export function definitionFromMetadata(
metadata: Map<string, string>,
name: string,
): MaterializedViewDefinition {
const raw = metadata.get(DEFINITION_META_KEY);
if (raw === undefined) {
throw new Error(`Table '${name}' is not a materialized view`);
}
return definitionFromJson(raw, name);
}
/** @internal Parse the backend-independent definition returned by native code. */
export function definitionFromJson(
raw: string,
name: string,
): MaterializedViewDefinition {
// biome-ignore lint/suspicious/noExplicitAny: raw JSON
const value: any = JSON.parse(raw);
if (value.format !== undefined) {
// A newer writer's layout is reported, never guessed at.
if (!Number.isInteger(value.format) || value.format > DEFINITION_FORMAT) {
throw new Error(
`materialized view '${name}' is stored in format ${value.format}, ` +
"which this version of lancedb cannot refresh",
);
}
return { query: value.query };
}
// The structured layout written before the format number.
if (value.kind !== "select" && value.kind !== "namespaced_select") {
throw new Error(
`materialized view '${name}' is stored in format kind '${value.kind}', ` +
"which this version of lancedb cannot refresh",
);
}
const limit = value.limit ?? undefined;
// JSON.parse rounds integers past 2^53; every exact u64 parses to a safe
// integer and every rounded one does not, so this rejects precisely the
// values a number cannot carry.
if (limit !== undefined && !Number.isSafeInteger(limit)) {
throw new Error(
`materialized view '${name}' has a stored limit too large to represent exactly`,
);
}
return { query: legacyQuery(value, limit) };
}
function legacyIdent(name: string): string {
return /^[a-z_][a-z0-9_]*$/.test(name)
? name
: `\`${name.replace(/`/g, "``")}\``;
}
/** Render the pre-format structured layout as the query it described. */
// biome-ignore lint/suspicious/noExplicitAny: raw JSON
function legacyQuery(value: any, limit: number | undefined): string {
// biome-ignore lint/suspicious/noExplicitAny: raw JSON
const projections: any[] = value.projections ?? [];
const columns =
projections.length === 0
? "*"
: projections
.map((p) =>
p.expression === p.output || p.expression === `\`${p.output}\``
? p.expression
: `${p.expression} AS ${legacyIdent(p.output)}`,
)
.join(", ");
const table = [...(value.source_namespace ?? []), value.source_table]
.map(legacyIdent)
.join(".");
let query = `SELECT ${columns} FROM ${table}`;
if (value.filter !== undefined && value.filter !== null) {
query += ` WHERE ${value.filter}`;
}
if (limit !== undefined) {
query += ` LIMIT ${limit}`;
}
return query;
}
/**
* A handle on a materialized view: its table plus its definition.
*
* Obtained from {@link Connection#createMaterializedView} or
* {@link Connection#openMaterializedView}. The view is a normal table --
* queries, indexes and search all apply through {@link MaterializedView#table}
* -- whose contents are maintained by {@link MaterializedView#refresh}.
*/
export class MaterializedView {
private readonly inner: Table;
constructor(table: Table) {
this.inner = table;
}
get name(): string {
return this.inner.name;
}
/** The view, as the table it is. */
table(): Table {
return this.inner;
}
/** The query that defines the view. */
async definition(): Promise<MaterializedViewDefinition> {
return definitionFromJson(
await this.inner.materializedViewDefinition(),
this.name,
);
}
/**
* Recompute the view from its source.
*
* Every refresh rebuilds the complete view. For local views,
* `sourceVersion` refreshes to that source version instead of the latest;
* remote SQL refreshes do not support source-version pinning.
*/
async refresh(options?: {
sourceVersion?: number;
}): Promise<RefreshMaterializedViewResult> {
validateNonNegativeInteger(options?.sourceVersion, "sourceVersion");
return await this.inner.refreshMaterializedView(options?.sourceVersion);
}
}