lancedb-gatefixer[bot] 624defd109 fix: preserve sliced child validity during struct merge (#4261) ...

## Root cause

The pinned Lance Arrow crate rebuilt a sliced struct child with its
original Arrow offset but supplied a validity bitmap containing only the
visible rows. Arrow requires the bitmap to cover the offset as well, so
filtered vector searches involving nullable nested fields could panic
with `null_bit_buffer size too small`.

## Fix

- Carry an offset-aligned validity bitmap when propagating parent nulls
to a sliced child.
- Vendor the pinned `lance-arrow` crate until a Lance release includes
the fix; include it in Maturin source distributions.
- Add unit regressions for sliced children and parent bitmaps, plus a
record-batch merge regression.

## Validation

- The issue's 8,600-row Python reproducer completes its filtered flat
dot search and returns 8,448 rows without a panic.
- The targeted Rust merge regression and two focused Python query tests
pass.
- Rust formatting, Ruff formatting and lint, the vendored crate tests,
and the workspace Cargo checks passed. The Maturin source archive
includes the patched crate.

Fixes #4260

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2026-10-23 01:26:28 +08:00

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fix: preserve sliced child validity during struct merge (#4261)

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