## 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.
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
- Install LanceDB Python. See setup in Python contributing guide.
Run
make developto install the Python package. - 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