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Daniel RammerandClaude Opus 5 959645f1c7 feat(query): dedup hybrid search by primary key on MemWAL tables
Hybrid search fuses its two legs on `_rowid`, so both sub-queries set
`with_row_id` -- which a MemWAL table rejects before it plans, because the
fresh tier has no stable row id. Every hybrid shape and every reranker
therefore 400s on a WAL-backed table.

Join on the primary key instead. Every WAL-managed table declares an
unenforced primary key and the WAL union already dedups each leg by it, so
the two legs share a key space by construction -- and because they are
separate round trips that can land on different snapshots, joining on the
key is strictly more correct than joining on row ids, which would emit the
same logical row twice at two versions.

The key is dictionary-encoded into a dense u64 written under the `_rowid`
name. The fusion only ever compares that column for equality -- dedup,
grouping, score restoration -- so any injective mapping serves, and writing
it under that name is what lets every reranker, third-party implementations
included, run unmodified. It never reaches the caller.

Routing is decided by `lsm_enabled()`, added to `BaseTable` with a `false`
default and implemented on the remote table over the existing
`get_lsm_write_spec` endpoint, cached beside the schema. No server change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UozJQ9kQxntWarST7hC971
2026-09-16 15:47:06 -05:00

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# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright The LanceDB Authors
from unittest import mock
import lancedb
from lancedb.query import LanceHybridQueryBuilder
from lancedb.rerankers.rrf import RRFReranker
import pyarrow as pa
import pyarrow.compute as pc
import pytest
import pytest_asyncio
from lancedb.index import BTree, FTS, IvfPq
from lancedb.table import AsyncTable, Table
@pytest.fixture
def sync_table(tmpdir_factory) -> Table:
tmp_path = str(tmpdir_factory.mktemp("data"))
db = lancedb.connect(tmp_path)
data = pa.table(
{
"text": pa.array(["a", "b", "cat", "dog"]),
"vector": pa.array(
[[0.1, 0.1], [2, 2], [-0.1, -0.1], [0.5, -0.5]],
type=pa.list_(pa.float32(), list_size=2),
),
}
)
table = db.create_table("test", data)
table.create_fts_index("text", with_position=False)
return table
@pytest_asyncio.fixture
async def table(tmpdir_factory) -> AsyncTable:
tmp_path = str(tmpdir_factory.mktemp("data"))
db = await lancedb.connect_async(tmp_path)
data = pa.table(
{
"text": pa.array(["a", "b", "cat", "dog"]),
"vector": pa.array(
[[0.1, 0.1], [2, 2], [-0.1, -0.1], [0.5, -0.5]],
type=pa.list_(pa.float32(), list_size=2),
),
}
)
table = await db.create_table("test", data)
await table.create_index("text", config=FTS(with_position=False))
return table
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_async_hybrid_query(table: AsyncTable):
result = await (
table.query().nearest_to([0.0, 0.4]).nearest_to_text("dog").limit(2).to_arrow()
)
assert len(result) == 2
# ensure we get results that would match well for text and vector
assert result["text"].to_pylist() == ["a", "dog"]
# ensure there is no rowid by default
assert "_rowid" not in result
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_async_hybrid_query_with_row_ids(table: AsyncTable):
result = await (
table.query()
.nearest_to([0.0, 0.4])
.nearest_to_text("dog")
.limit(2)
.with_row_id()
.to_arrow()
)
assert len(result) == 2
# ensure we get results that would match well for text and vector
assert result["text"].to_pylist() == ["a", "dog"]
assert result["_rowid"].to_pylist() == [0, 3]
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_async_hybrid_query_filters(table: AsyncTable):
# test that query params are passed down from the regular builder to
# child vector/fts builders
result = await (
table.query()
.where("text not in ('a', 'dog')")
.nearest_to([0.3, 0.3])
.nearest_to_text("*a*")
.distance_type("l2")
.limit(2)
.to_arrow()
)
assert len(result) == 2
# ensure we get results that would match well for text and vector
assert result["text"].to_pylist() == ["cat", "b"]
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_hybrid_query_with_stale_fixed_size_binary_prefilter(
tmpdir_factory,
):
tmp_path = str(tmpdir_factory.mktemp("stale_scalar_prefilter"))
db = await lancedb.connect_async(tmp_path)
def fixed_size_binary(value: int) -> bytes:
return value.to_bytes(16, byteorder="big")
num_rows = 1000
data = pa.table(
{
"space_id": pa.array(
[fixed_size_binary(i) for i in range(num_rows)],
type=pa.binary(16),
),
"text": ["book"] * num_rows,
"vector": pa.array(
[[float(i), float(i)] for i in range(num_rows)],
type=pa.list_(pa.float32(), 2),
),
}
)
table = await db.create_table("test", data)
await table.create_index(
"vector", config=IvfPq(num_partitions=4, num_sub_vectors=2)
)
await table.create_index("space_id", config=BTree())
await table.create_index("text", config=FTS(with_position=False))
# Advance the search indices without advancing the scalar index. This is the
# state that previously let hybrid search use an incomplete scalar prefilter.
await table.add(data)
lance_dataset = await table.to_lance()
lance_dataset.optimize.optimize_indices(index_names=["vector_idx", "text_idx"])
await table.checkout_latest()
scalar_stats = await table.index_stats("space_id_idx")
assert scalar_stats is not None
assert scalar_stats.num_indexed_rows == num_rows
assert scalar_stats.num_unindexed_rows == num_rows
for index_name in ["vector_idx", "text_idx"]:
search_stats = await table.index_stats(index_name)
assert search_stats is not None
assert search_stats.num_indexed_rows == num_rows * 2
assert search_stats.num_unindexed_rows == 0
matching_ids = [5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30]
literals = [
f"arrow_cast(0x{fixed_size_binary(i).hex()}, 'FixedSizeBinary(16)')"
for i in matching_ids
]
predicate = f"space_id IN ({', '.join(literals)})"
expected_ids = sorted(fixed_size_binary(i) for i in matching_ids for _ in range(2))
vector_query = (
table.query().where(predicate).nearest_to([5.0, 5.0]).limit(num_rows * 2)
)
vector_results = await vector_query.to_arrow()
assert sorted(vector_results["space_id"].to_pylist()) == expected_ids
fts_query = (
table.query().where(predicate).nearest_to_text("book").limit(num_rows * 2)
)
fts_results = await fts_query.to_arrow()
assert sorted(fts_results["space_id"].to_pylist()) == expected_ids
hybrid_results = await (
table.query()
.where(predicate)
.nearest_to([5.0, 5.0])
.nearest_to_text("book")
.limit(num_rows * 2)
.to_arrow()
)
assert sorted(hybrid_results["space_id"].to_pylist()) == expected_ids
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_async_hybrid_query_default_limit(table: AsyncTable):
# add 10 new rows
new_rows = []
for i in range(100):
if i < 2:
new_rows.append({"text": "close_vec", "vector": [0.1, 0.1]})
else:
new_rows.append({"text": "far_vec", "vector": [5 * i, 5 * i]})
await table.add(new_rows)
result = await (
table.query().nearest_to_text("dog").nearest_to([0.1, 0.1]).to_arrow()
)
# assert we got the default limit of 10
assert len(result) == 10
# assert we got the closest vectors and the text searched for
texts = result["text"].to_pylist()
assert texts.count("close_vec") == 2
assert texts.count("dog") == 1
assert texts.count("a") == 1
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_async_hybrid_query_offset(table: AsyncTable):
# The offset window of a hybrid query must be a suffix of the same query
# run without an offset. Skipping the first rows of each sub-query instead
# of the first rows of the fused result silently changes which rows land in
# the window.
full = await (
table.query()
.nearest_to([0.0, 0.4])
.nearest_to_text("dog")
.limit(4)
.with_row_id()
.to_arrow()
)
assert len(full) == 4
second_page = await (
table.query()
.nearest_to([0.0, 0.4])
.nearest_to_text("dog")
.offset(2)
.limit(2)
.with_row_id()
.to_arrow()
)
assert second_page["_rowid"].to_pylist() == full["_rowid"].to_pylist()[2:]
first_page = await (
table.query()
.nearest_to([0.0, 0.4])
.nearest_to_text("dog")
.limit(2)
.with_row_id()
.to_arrow()
)
# Paging through the result must visit every row exactly once: no row
# repeated from the previous page and none dropped between the two.
paged = first_page["_rowid"].to_pylist() + second_page["_rowid"].to_pylist()
assert sorted(paged) == sorted(full["_rowid"].to_pylist())
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_async_hybrid_query_fts_first_default_limit(table: AsyncTable):
# nearest_to() and nearest_to_text() build their new sibling sub-query from
# scratch, and that is the sub-query the default limit ends up on. So the
# side that carries the limit depends on the order the hybrid query was
# built in, and looking at only one side loses the limit for half the ways
# a hybrid query can be written. Without a limit the combined results are
# not truncated at all and the whole union of both candidate lists is
# returned.
await table.add([{"text": "dog", "vector": [50.0 + i, 50.0]} for i in range(10)])
result = await (
table.query().nearest_to_text("dog").nearest_to([0.1, 0.1]).to_arrow()
)
assert len(result) == 10
offset_result = await (
table.query().nearest_to_text("dog").nearest_to([0.1, 0.1]).offset(2).to_arrow()
)
assert len(offset_result) == 10
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_async_hybrid_query_explain_plan_matches_execution(table: AsyncTable):
# Paging rewrites the sub-queries: each one fetches limit + offset rows with
# no offset of its own, and the window is sliced out after fusion. The plans
# have to be built from those rewritten sub-queries, otherwise explain_plan
# and analyze_plan describe a query that is never run.
query = (
table.query().nearest_to([0.0, 0.4]).nearest_to_text("dog").offset(2).limit(2)
)
await query.to_arrow()
plan = await query.explain_plan()
assert [
line.strip() for line in plan.splitlines() if "GlobalLimitExec" in line
] == [
"GlobalLimitExec: skip=0, fetch=4",
"GlobalLimitExec: skip=0, fetch=4",
]
analyzed = await query.analyze_plan()
assert analyzed.count("skip=0, fetch=4") == 2
assert "skip=2" not in analyzed
def test_hybrid_query_offset(sync_table: Table):
# The offset window of a hybrid query must be a suffix of the same query
# run without an offset -- it must not be silently ignored.
full = (
sync_table.search(query_type="hybrid")
.vector([0.0, 0.4])
.text("dog")
.limit(4)
.with_row_id(True)
.to_arrow()
)
assert len(full) == 4
offset_result = (
sync_table.search(query_type="hybrid")
.vector([0.0, 0.4])
.text("dog")
.offset(2)
.limit(2)
.with_row_id(True)
.to_arrow()
)
assert offset_result["_rowid"].to_pylist() == full["_rowid"].to_pylist()[2:]
def test_hybrid_query_minimum_nprobes_zero_raises(sync_table: Table):
# minimum_nprobes(0) must raise the same validation error a plain vector
# query raises, not silently no-op because 0 is falsy.
with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="minimum_nprobes must be greater than 0"):
(
sync_table.search(query_type="hybrid")
.vector([0.0, 0.4])
.text("dog")
.minimum_nprobes(0)
.to_arrow()
)
def test_hybrid_query_distance_range(sync_table: Table):
reranker = RRFReranker(return_score="all")
result = (
sync_table.search(query_type="hybrid")
.vector([0.0, 0.4])
.text("cat and dog")
.distance_range(lower_bound=0.2, upper_bound=0.5)
.rerank(reranker)
.limit(2)
.to_arrow()
)
assert len(result) == 2
print(result)
for dist in result["_distance"]:
if dist.is_valid:
assert 0.2 <= dist.as_py() <= 0.5
def test_hybrid_query_applies_zero_upper_distance_bound(sync_table: Table):
result = (
sync_table.search(query_type="hybrid")
.vector([0.0, 0.4])
.text("elephant")
.distance_range(upper_bound=0.0)
.rerank(RRFReranker(return_score="all"))
.limit(4)
.to_arrow()
)
assert len(result) == 0
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_hybrid_query_distance_range_async(table: AsyncTable):
reranker = RRFReranker(return_score="all")
result = await (
table.query()
.nearest_to([0.0, 0.4])
.nearest_to_text("cat and dog")
.distance_range(lower_bound=0.2, upper_bound=0.5)
.rerank(reranker)
.limit(2)
.to_arrow()
)
assert len(result) == 2
for dist in result["_distance"]:
if dist.is_valid:
assert 0.2 <= dist.as_py() <= 0.5
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_explain_plan(table: AsyncTable):
plan = await (
table.query().nearest_to_text("dog").nearest_to([0.1, 0.1]).explain_plan(True)
)
assert "KNNVectorDistance" in plan
assert "LanceRead" in plan
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_analyze_plan(table: AsyncTable):
res = await (
table.query().nearest_to_text("dog").nearest_to([0.1, 0.1]).analyze_plan()
)
assert "AnalyzeExec" in res
assert "metrics=" in res
def test_hybrid_phrase_query_is_preserved_in_analyze_plan():
table = mock.Mock()
analyzed_queries = []
distributed_metric_modes = []
def capture_query(query, *, distributed_metrics="aggregate"):
analyzed_queries.append(query)
distributed_metric_modes.append(distributed_metrics)
return ""
table._analyze_plan.side_effect = capture_query
(
LanceHybridQueryBuilder(table)
.vector([0.1, 0.2])
.text("puppy runs")
.phrase_query()
.analyze_plan(distributed_metrics="full")
)
assert len(analyzed_queries) == 2
assert analyzed_queries[1].full_text_query.query == '"puppy runs"'
assert distributed_metric_modes == ["full", "full"]
@pytest.fixture
def table_with_id(tmpdir_factory) -> Table:
tmp_path = str(tmpdir_factory.mktemp("data"))
db = lancedb.connect(tmp_path)
data = pa.table(
{
"id": pa.array([1, 2, 3, 4], type=pa.int64()),
"text": pa.array(["a", "b", "cat", "dog"]),
"vector": pa.array(
[[0.1, 0.1], [2, 2], [-0.1, -0.1], [0.5, -0.5]],
type=pa.list_(pa.float32(), list_size=2),
),
}
)
table = db.create_table("test_with_id", data)
table.create_fts_index("text", with_position=False)
return table
def test_hybrid_prefilter_explain_plan(table_with_id: Table):
"""
Verify that the prefilter logic is not inverted in LanceHybridQueryBuilder.
"""
plan_prefilter = (
table_with_id.search(query_type="hybrid")
.vector([0.0, 0.0])
.text("dog")
.where("id = 1", prefilter=True)
.limit(2)
.explain_plan(verbose=True)
)
plan_postfilter = (
table_with_id.search(query_type="hybrid")
.vector([0.0, 0.0])
.text("dog")
.where("id = 1", prefilter=False)
.limit(2)
.explain_plan(verbose=True)
)
# prefilter=True: filter is pushed into the LanceRead scan.
# The FTS sub-plan exposes this as "full_filter=id = Int64(1)" inside LanceRead.
assert "full_filter=id = Int64(1)" in plan_prefilter, (
f"Should push the filter into the scan.\nPlan:\n{plan_prefilter}"
)
# prefilter=False: filter is applied as a separate FilterExec after the search.
# The filter must NOT be embedded in the scan.
assert "full_filter=id = Int64(1)" not in plan_postfilter, (
f"Should NOT push the filter into the scan.\nPlan:\n{plan_postfilter}"
)
def test_normalize_scores():
cases = [
(pa.array([0.1, 0.4]), pa.array([0.0, 1.0])),
(pa.array([2.0, 10.0, 20.0]), pa.array([0.0, 8.0 / 18.0, 1.0])),
(pa.array([0.0, 0.0, 0.0]), pa.array([0.0, 0.0, 0.0])),
(pa.array([10.0, 9.9999999999999]), pa.array([0.0, 0.0])),
]
for input, expected in cases:
for invert in [True, False]:
result = LanceHybridQueryBuilder._normalize_scores(input, invert)
if invert:
expected = pc.subtract(1.0, expected)
assert pc.equal(result, expected), (
f"Expected {expected} but got {result} for invert={invert}"
)
def _wal_table(schema: pa.Schema) -> mock.Mock:
"""A stand-in for a MemWAL-backed table: the fusion cannot use `_rowid`."""
table = mock.Mock()
table.lsm_enabled.return_value = True
table.schema = schema
return table
_PK_SCHEMA = pa.schema(
[
pa.field(
"id",
pa.string(),
metadata={b"lance-schema:unenforced-primary-key:position": b"1"},
),
pa.field("text", pa.string()),
]
)
def _wal_hybrid(**select):
builder = (
LanceHybridQueryBuilder(_wal_table(_PK_SCHEMA)).vector([0.1, 0.2]).text("puppy")
)
if "columns" in select:
builder = builder.select(select["columns"])
return builder
def test_wal_hybrid_projects_the_key_instead_of_asking_for_row_ids():
builder = _wal_hybrid(columns=["text"])
builder._create_query_builders()
assert builder._fusion_pk == ["id"]
assert builder._injected_pk == ["id"]
for leg in (builder._vector_query, builder._fts_query):
assert leg._columns == ["text", "id"]
# A MemWAL table rejects with_row_id before it plans.
assert leg._with_row_id is not True
def test_wal_hybrid_selecting_the_key_injects_nothing():
builder = _wal_hybrid(columns=["text", "id"])
builder._create_query_builders()
assert builder._injected_pk == []
def test_wal_hybrid_without_a_projection_leaves_it_alone():
builder = _wal_hybrid()
builder._create_query_builders()
# Select-all already returns the key.
assert builder._injected_pk == []
assert builder._vector_query._columns is None
def test_base_table_hybrid_still_joins_on_row_ids():
table = mock.Mock()
table.lsm_enabled.return_value = False
builder = LanceHybridQueryBuilder(table).vector([0.1, 0.2]).text("puppy")
builder._create_query_builders()
# `to_arrow` is what turns row ids on for this path; all that matters here
# is that no key was resolved and no projection was touched.
assert builder._fusion_pk is None
assert builder._injected_pk == []
def test_wal_hybrid_with_use_lsm_false_joins_on_row_ids():
builder = _wal_hybrid().use_lsm(False)
builder._create_query_builders()
assert builder._fusion_pk is None
def test_wal_hybrid_refuses_an_explicit_with_row_id():
builder = _wal_hybrid().with_row_id(True)
with pytest.raises(NotImplementedError, match="use_lsm"):
builder._create_query_builders()
def test_wal_hybrid_return_score_all_is_not_refused():
"""`return_score="all"` turns row ids on for the reranker, not the caller."""
builder = _wal_hybrid().rerank(RRFReranker(return_score="all"))
builder._create_query_builders()
assert builder._fusion_pk == ["id"]
def test_wal_hybrid_fuses_on_the_key_and_drops_it_again():
builder = _wal_hybrid(columns=["text"])
builder._create_query_builders()
vector_results = pa.table(
{"text": ["a", "b"], "id": ["a", "b"], "_distance": [0.1, 0.2]}
)
fts_results = pa.table({"text": ["b", "c"], "id": ["b", "c"], "_score": [1.0, 2.0]})
combined = LanceHybridQueryBuilder._combine_hybrid_results(
fts_results=fts_results,
vector_results=vector_results,
norm="score",
fts_query="puppy",
reranker=RRFReranker(),
limit=10,
with_row_ids=True,
pk_columns=builder._fusion_pk,
)
results = builder._finish_hybrid_results(combined)
assert "_rowid" not in results.column_names, "the surrogate is internal"
assert "id" not in results.column_names, "the caller selected only `text`"
assert sorted(results.column("text").to_pylist()) == ["a", "b", "c"]