Wyatt Alt 80413a3156 feat: refresh materialized views
A declared view holds no rows; refresh computes them. It pins one source
version, brings the view to exactly the definition's result at that version,
and records the version as a watermark in the view's schema metadata.

It is incremental when it can reconcile what changed: appended rows are
computed and appended, and rows the source deleted or updated are found by
the lance delta and evicted by their __source_row_id provenance, the updated
ones recomputed in the same commit. Compaction rearranges rows without changing
them, so its outputs cost nothing -- which is what keeps routine background
compaction from rebuilding the view. A vacuumed watermark, a
delta the transaction-log walk cannot classify, a Legacy-storage source, or
more staged ids than a fixed cap all fall back to a rebuild; rebuilding an
indexed view swaps every fragment in one Update, so readers never see it
unindexed or empty.

Concurrent refreshes serialize at commit -- each carries the
same sentinel row id in its inserted-rows filter, so the loser lands
nothing. On the append path the watermark moves in a follow-up commit, so a
crash between the two re-appends those rows. Bumps lance
to v11.0.0-beta.19 for the delta reader.
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The ultimate multimodal data platform for AI/ML applications.

LanceDB is designed for fast, scalable, and production-ready vector search. It is built on top of the Lance columnar format. You can store, index, and search over petabytes of multimodal data and vectors with ease. LanceDB is a central location where developers can build, train and analyze their AI workloads.


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