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Jack Ye 794fa023cd feat: add materialized view refresh resource budgets (#4902)
Expose aggregate CPU, memory, and GPU budgets plus GPU-class placement
on materialized-view refreshes in Python and Rust. Forward options
through SQL and reject invalid or unsupported Embedded requests instead
of silently dropping constraints.

```python
job = view.refresh_async(
    cpu_millis=8000,
    memory_bytes=16 * 1024**3,
    gpu_count=2,
    gpu_class="h100",
)
job.wait()
```

```sql
REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW curated_training_set
WITH (cpu_millis = 8000, memory_bytes = 17179869184,
      gpu_count = 2, gpu_class = 'h100');
```

The same options apply to blocking refreshes, async Python connections,
and the Rust refresh builder. CPU/memory budgets require all three
resource fields; GPU-only caps and class-only placement are also
supported. These are execution-wide caps and require a supporting
Enterprise server with an isolated execution backend. A cap does not
increase refresh parallelism; current MV refreshes use at most one GPU.

Updates API documentation and SQL reference, with Python sync/async and
Rust remote-submission regression coverage. Formatting and Python lint
pass; local builds and tests are intentionally skipped.

The Linux CI build and example steps explicitly select the LanceDB
package, matching the feature-test step. This avoids rebuilding and
retaining a second dependency graph after a workspace-wide build, which
exhausted runner disk space on both this branch and main.

Related: [ENT-3386](https://linear.app/lancedb/issue/ENT-3386)
2026-11-09 15:02:13 -08:00
..

LanceDB Documentation

For website guides in docs/web, start with Documentation in CONTRIBUTING.md. That covers editing pages, generated examples, previews, availability and drafts.

This page covers the SDK reference in docs/src, built with MkDocs. Its GitHub Actions workflow builds and deploys on pushes to main, so it can include unreleased APIs. That is separate from the release editions of the Mintlify website.

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

To make sure examples are correct, we put examples in test files so they can be run as part of our test suites.

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

The Python API documentation is organized based on the file docs/src/python/python.md. We manually add entries there so we can control the organization of the reference page. However, this means any new types must be manually added to the file. No additional steps are needed to generate the API documentation.

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