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Xuanwo 8029428c71 feat: persist automatic Function refresh resource budgets (#4953)
## Depends on merged #4951

Phase 1 merged as `4d22c0ce2b6825c880c818e737b079db494b4053`, so this PR
now targets `main`. It reuses the canonical
`FunctionWorkerResourceBudget` introduced there rather than copying the
type.

For Function `add_columns` declarations, Python and Rust now persist
`auto_refresh_resource_budget` in computed-column metadata and send it
as `auto_refresh_resource_budget` in the remote request. CPU
milliseconds and memory bytes are required positive integers. Omitting
`gpu_count` is accepted as zero and the canonical outgoing JSON still
contains `"gpu_count": 0`. Unknown fields, missing CPU or memory, wrong
types, zero CPU or memory, negative values, and overflow are rejected.

The same budget is applied to every public output binding of a
multi-output Function declaration. Existing metadata is retained, and
SQL-expression declarations or local execution reject the budget instead
of silently ignoring it. Node is unchanged because its current
`addColumns` surface only accepts SQL computed expressions and has no
Function declaration path.

This change does not implement fleet call concurrency limits or enforce
the budget in the runtime. The Enterprise server must support the nested
Function worker resource-budget contract before these values can act as
execution limits.

## Validation

- Python extension build passed.
- Remote Function declaration and local unsupported-path rejection each
passed.
- Canonical metadata round-trip passed, including omitted GPU decoding
to zero and explicit `gpu_count: 0` on encode.
- Function multi-output remote wire test passed with `--features
remote`.
- Repository-scoped Python type check passed with 0 errors.
- All runtime source blobs match the native-tested source. The
post-native deltas are one documentation example line and an existing
routing-test stub update for the new optional argument; the affected
parameterized test passed 3/3 against the existing extension build. No
private test runners are part of this PR.
2026-11-11 11:23:17 +08:00
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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