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Xuanwo 4d22c0ce2b feat: expose Function refresh resource budgets in SDKs (#4951)
## Summary

- Add the canonical Rust `FunctionWorkerResourceBudget` and
`RefreshColumnOptions::resource_budget()` for explicit Enterprise
Function refreshes.
- Forward the nested budget through Python sync/async, PyO3, Rust remote
requests, Node NAPI, and TypeScript.
- Require positive CPU and memory values; normalize an omitted nested
GPU count to numeric zero; reject the nested budget when combined with
the top-level `gpu_count` shorthand.
- Reject `resource_budget` on LanceDB Embedded refresh paths instead of
silently ignoring it.
- Document the Rust, Python, and TypeScript APIs, including that SQL
servers currently require all three budget fields.

The Rust, Python, and TypeScript additions use `cpu_millis` /
`cpuMillis`, `memory_bytes` / `memoryBytes`, and `gpu_count` /
`gpuCount`. The top-level GPU shorthand keeps its existing behavior and
remains mutually exclusive with the complete nested budget.

## Scope and compatibility

This change configures only the explicit refresh call. It does not
configure `add_columns` automatic refresh and does not introduce a
fleet-wide call-cap interface.

A LanceDB Enterprise server must expose the nested `resource_budget`
backfill contract. LanceDB Embedded continues to support its existing
expression refresh defaults and rejects the new complete budget
explicitly.

## Validation

Validated against the final signed product source:

- Rust: resource-budget remote serialization test `2 passed`; validation
test `1 passed`.
- Python: actual PyO3 build; remote-request matrix `22 passed`;
invalid-option matrix `20 passed`; local rejection `22 passed`; Ruff
check and format clean.
- Repository-standard Pyright entry point: `0 errors`, within the
repository's configured include set.
- Node: native build and Biome lint passed; the existing remote-request
test `1 passed`, including fractional, negative, overflow, NaN, and
infinity nested GPU cases; the existing local-rejection test `1 passed`.
- TypeDoc generation and generated-document cleanliness passed.
- The native-tested product source differs from this head only in two
semantically equivalent Node range checks required by Clippy. Current CI
compiles and lints the final blobs. No dependency or lockfile changes
are included.
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LanceDB Documentation

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Building the docs

Setup

  1. Install LanceDB Python. See setup in Python contributing guide. Run make develop to install the Python package.
  2. Install documentation dependencies. From LanceDB repo root: pip install -r docs/requirements.txt

Preview the docs

Run these commands from the LanceDB repository root. The subshell changes into docs to load mkdocs.yml, while leaving your shell in the repository root.

(cd docs && PYTHONPATH=. mkdocs serve)

If you want to just generate the HTML files:

(cd docs && PYTHONPATH=. mkdocs build)

If successful, you should see a docs/site directory in the repository root that you can verify locally.

Adding examples

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You can see the tests are at:

  • Python: python/python/tests/docs
  • Typescript: nodejs/examples/

Checking python examples

cd python
pytest -vv python/tests/docs

Checking typescript examples

The examples depend on @lancedb/lancedb at file:../dist, so the package must be built before running the tests. This uses pnpm; see the Typescript contributing guide for the toolchain setup.

pushd nodejs
pnpm install
pnpm build
popd

Then you can run the examples by going to the nodejs/examples directory, which is a separate pnpm package with its own lockfile:

pushd nodejs/examples
pnpm install
pnpm test
popd

API documentation

Python

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Typescript

The typescript API documentation is generated from the typescript source code using typedoc.

When new APIs are added, you must manually re-run the typedoc command to update the API documentation. The new files should be checked into the repository.

pushd nodejs
# `pnpm docs` would invoke pnpm's built-in `docs` command, not the script.
pnpm run docs
popd