omnigraph/docs/dev/execution.md
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feat(engine): Stage the delete path; retire the inline-delete residual (#308)
* test(engine): pin zero-row cascade delete must not drift an edge table (red)

A delete <Node> cascades a delete_where into every incident edge type. The
inline delete_where (Dataset::delete) advances Lance HEAD even when zero edges
match, but the cascade records the new version only if deleted_rows > 0 — so a
node with no incident edges leaves edge:Knows HEAD>manifest drift, which trips
the next strict write's ExpectedVersionMismatch and repair refuses it.

Red today: edge:Knows manifest=v5, Lance HEAD=v6. Goes green when delete moves
to the staged two-phase path (iss-950, Lance 7.0 DeleteBuilder::execute_uncommitted),
where a 0-row delete commits no Lance version and the deleted_rows>0 gate becomes
correct by construction.

* fix(engine): a zero-row delete must not advance Lance HEAD

Lance's Dataset::delete commits a new version even when the predicate matches
nothing (build_transaction always emits Operation::Delete), so a node delete
that cascades a delete_where into an incident edge type with no matching edges
advanced that edge table's Lance HEAD while the cascade skipped record_inline
(gated on deleted_rows > 0) — leaving HEAD>manifest drift that wedged the next
strict write and that repair refused as suspicious/unverifiable.

Use Lance 7.0's two-phase DeleteBuilder::execute_uncommitted to read
num_deleted_rows before committing: a no-match delete now advances nothing (no
version, no drift) and the existing deleted_rows>0 gate is correct by
construction. Non-zero deletes commit the staged transaction with
skip_auto_cleanup + affected_rows (parity with the prior inline path).

First step of the staged-delete migration (iss-950); turns the
node_delete_with_no_incident_edges_leaves_no_edge_table_drift regression green.

* feat(engine): stage_delete two-phase primitive (MR-A step 0)

Add TableStore::stage_delete (Lance 7.0 DeleteBuilder::execute_uncommitted),
the two-phase analogue of stage_merge_insert: writes deletion files without
advancing Lance HEAD, returns Option<StagedWrite> (None on 0 rows = true no-op),
carrying the deletion-vector updated_fragments as new_fragments and the
superseded originals as removed_fragment_ids so combine_committed_with_staged
makes the deletion visible to in-query reads.

No affected_rows is threaded: like stage_merge_insert's Operation::Update commit,
the staged delete relies on OmniGraph's per-table write queue + manifest CAS, not
Lance's per-dataset conflict resolver (commit_staged is a single attempt).

Flip the two residual guards to the staged path: staged_writes.rs now asserts
stage_delete does NOT advance HEAD and that a staged delete is read-your-writes
visible (the deletion-vector RYW proof D2 retirement depends on); the
lance_surface_guards delete guard pins execute_uncommitted's UncommittedDelete.

No behavior change yet (callers still use delete_where); Step 1 wires them.

* feat(engine): TableStorage::stage_delete + migrate merge delete path (MR-A step 1a)

Add stage_delete/Option<StagedHandle> to the TableStorage trait (delegates to
TableStore::stage_delete). Migrate the two branch_merge delete sites
(three-way RewriteMerged + adopt delta) from the inline delete_where residual to
stage_delete + commit_staged — identical in shape to the stage_merge_insert +
commit_staged pair above each. HEAD still advances within the merge sequence
(via commit_staged), under the unchanged SidecarKind::BranchMerge Phase-B
confirmation; the _pre_delete/_pre_index failpoints fire by position, unchanged.

merge_truth_table, branching, composite_flow green.

* feat(engine): migrate all delete sites to staged path, retire inline delete (MR-A step 1b/1c)

Routes every delete through the staged write path so delete never advances
Lance HEAD inline — the last inline-commit residual on the mutation path is
gone. `MutationStaging` now accumulates delete predicates (`record_delete`)
alongside pending write batches; at end-of-query `stage_all` combines a
table's predicates into one `(p1) OR (p2) …` `stage_delete` (a deletion-vector
transaction, no HEAD advance) and `commit_all` commits it through the same
`commit_staged` path as inserts/updates. Deletes are now ordinary staged
entries: one sidecar pin at `expected + 1`, no inline special-casing.

Migrated callers (all 5): the 3 mutation.rs sites (delete-node, cascade,
delete-edge) and the 2 merge.rs sites (already on stage_delete in step 1a).
`affected_edges`/`affected` move from post-inline-commit `deleted_rows` to a
committed `count_rows` at record time — exact under D₂, bounded by the cascade
working set. A predicate matching zero rows stages nothing (the staged
equivalent of the old "skip record_inline on 0 deleted rows"), so the zero-row
edge-table drift class stays closed by construction.

Retired scaffolding now that no caller remains:
- `MutationStaging.inline_committed` + `record_inline` → `delete_predicates` +
  `record_delete`; `StagedMutation.inline_committed`/`paths` fields and all the
  `commit_all` inline handling (queue keys, sidecar pins with the
  `record_inline` table_version special-case, the inline recheck loop).
- `open_table_for_mutation`'s post-inline-commit reopen branch (deletes no
  longer advance HEAD mid-query, so a second touch reopens at the pinned
  version like any write).
- `InlineCommitResidual::delete_where` + its `TableStore` impl, the orphaned
  `TableStore::delete_where`, and `DeleteState`. `InlineCommitResidual` now
  carries only `create_vector_index` (Lance #6666 still open).

D₂ stays for now: staged-delete read-your-writes doesn't yet compose into the
pending accumulator (insert-then-delete on one table), so mixed
insert/update/delete in one query is still rejected at parse time. Retiring D₂
is step 2. Doc comments updated to match across exec/, storage_layer, db/.

Tests (all green): writes, consistency, validators, end_to_end, composite_flow,
merge_truth_table, maintenance, recovery, staged_writes, forbidden_apis,
lance_surface_guards, changes, point_in_time (286), plus failpoints (63).

* docs: delete is a staged write, not an inline-commit residual (MR-A step 1)

Update the docs that described `delete` as the inline-commit residual now that
MR-A routes it through `stage_delete`. Always-loaded surfaces (AGENTS.md rule
4 / capability matrix, invariants.md Invariant 4 / truth matrix / known gaps)
plus the dev write-path docs (writes.md, execution.md incl. its mutation
sequence diagram, architecture.md) now state: deletes accumulate as predicates
and stage like inserts/updates, no inline HEAD advance; `InlineCommitResidual`
carries only `create_vector_index` (Lance #6666). The parse-time D₂ rule is
documented as retained — not because delete inline-commits, but because
staged-delete read-your-writes is not yet wired into the pending accumulator
(MR-A step 2). lance.md's 7.0 audit note marked MR-A as landed.

* docs: D₂ is a deliberate boundary, not temporary scaffolding (MR-A close-out)

After MR-A staged the delete path, D₂ (a mutation query is insert/update-only
OR delete-only) was left framed as temporary — "until Lance ships two-phase
delete" / "retire in step 2". Lance shipped that and we used it for the
inline-commit fix; D₂'s original justification is gone. It now stands for a
different, permanent reason: keeping a query to one kind keeps its
read-your-writes unambiguous and each table to one version per query. Retiring
it would buy single-commit mixed atomicity (cheap workaround: split, or a
branch) at the cost of an in-query delete view, pending pruning, edge
id-resolution, and two-commit-per-table ordering in the hot mutation path —
complexity not worth earning. Decision: keep D₂ as a deliberate boundary.

Reframes the now-stale wording everywhere, no logic change:
- The D₂ parse-time error message no longer promises "this restriction lifts
  when Lance exposes a two-phase delete API"; it states the boundary and points
  to a branch+merge for one atomic commit.
- `enforce_no_mixed_destructive_constructive` doc, AGENTS.md, invariants.md
  (Invariant 4 / truth matrix / removed from the known-gaps), writes.md,
  architecture.md, lance.md, and the user mutations doc (which wrongly said
  deletes "commit through a different path" — both stage now).
- Swept remaining stale `delete_where` mentions left from the Step-1 migration:
  the merge.rs "swap when upstream ships" comments (already swapped), the
  forbidden_apis / table_ops residual notes, the staged_writes vector-index
  guard doc (was "same as stage_delete's absence" — stage_delete now exists),
  and test comments/assert messages in recovery/maintenance/writes/failpoints.
  Genuinely-historical records (dated Lance audit, rfc-013, bug-case-fix) left.

Verified: engine builds warning-free; check-agents-md OK; writes/maintenance/
recovery/staged_writes/forbidden_apis all green. Closes MR-A.

* test(engine): overlapping delete predicates must not double-count affected_* (red)

Reproduces a reporting regression from the staged-delete migration flagged in
PR #308 review. Because deletes now stage (instead of inline-committing), two
delete statements in one query both scan the same unchanged committed snapshot;
counting each predicate independently over-reports `affected_*` when they
overlap. The old inline path committed each delete before the next ran, so it
counted distinct.

`delete Person where name = "Alice"` then `delete Person where age > 29` over
the standard fixture (Alice 30, Charlie 35) removes 2 distinct nodes and 3
distinct edges, but the buggy per-statement counting returns 3 nodes / 6 edges.
RED at this commit (asserts left=3, right=2).

* fix(engine): dedup overlapping delete predicates when counting affected_*

Count each delete statement against the committed snapshot MINUS the predicates
a prior delete statement on the same table already recorded:
`(pred) AND NOT ((prior1) OR (prior2) …)`. Summed over statements this is
inclusion-exclusion — `Σ |pₙ \ (p₁ ∪ …)| = |p₁ ∪ p₂ ∪ …|` — exactly the distinct
count the combined `(p1) OR (p2)` staged delete removes. Works for nodes and
edges alike with no edge identity needed; the node ID scan uses the same
exclusion so a later statement also doesn't re-cascade already-deleted nodes.
The ORIGINAL predicate is still what gets recorded (the staged delete removes
the union); only the count uses the exclusion. The common single-delete path is
unchanged (`prior` empty → filter is just the base predicate).

New helper `dedup_delete_filter` + `MutationStaging::recorded_delete_predicates`.
Turns the red regression test green (2 nodes / 3 edges); writes (33),
end_to_end, validators, maintenance, recovery, composite_flow, merge_truth_table,
consistency, changes, and failpoints (63) all stay green.

* test(engine): delete dedup must not drop NULL-column rows (red)

Follow-up to the overlapping-delete fix flagged in PR #308 review (Greptile P1):
the `(base) AND NOT (prior)` exclusion breaks under SQL three-valued logic. If a
prior delete predicate references a NULLable column, a later statement's
matching row whose column is NULL makes `prior` evaluate to UNKNOWN, `NOT
UNKNOWN` is UNKNOWN, and the row is filtered out of the scan — even though the
prior delete never matched it. That drops it from `deleted_ids`, skipping its
cascade (orphaned edges) or, if it is the only match, leaving the node
undeleted. A data bug, not just a miscount.

Data: Charlie(age 35), Zoe(age NULL); Knows Zoe→Charlie. `delete Person where
age > 30` then `delete Person where name = "Zoe"`. Under the buggy `NOT`, Zoe's
scan `(name='Zoe') AND NOT (age>30)` is UNKNOWN → Zoe survives. RED at this
commit (Person count left=1, right=0).

* fix(engine): NULL-safe delete dedup — exclude only definitely-matched prior rows

Change `dedup_delete_filter` from `(base) AND NOT (prior)` to
`(base) AND ((prior) IS NOT TRUE)`. `IS NOT TRUE` keeps both FALSE and UNKNOWN
rows, so a prior predicate that evaluates to SQL UNKNOWN (a NULL in a referenced
column) no longer drops a row this statement legitimately matches — only rows a
prior predicate matched as definitely TRUE are excluded from the count/scan. The
distinct-count semantics are unchanged for non-NULL data.

Turns the red NULL-dedup test green (Zoe deleted, her edge cascaded), and the
overlapping-dedup + writes/end_to_end/validators/maintenance/recovery/
composite_flow/consistency suites stay green.

* docs(engine): note dedup_delete_filter's load-bearing dependency on D₂

Self-review follow-up: the overlapping-delete dedup assumes the committed
snapshot is invariant across a query's statements, which holds only because D₂
forbids mixing writes with deletes (so a delete-touched table has no pending
writes). Make that dependency explicit at the function so a future D₂ relaxation
is forced to revisit the dedup. Comment-only.

* Preserve staged write commit metadata
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# Query Execution, Mutations, and Loading
## Query execution (`exec/query.rs`)
Pipeline:
1. Parse + typecheck via `omnigraph-compiler`.
2. Lower to IR.
3. If `Expand` or `AntiJoin` is present, build (or fetch from `RuntimeCache`) a `GraphIndex`.
4. Run `execute_query` against the snapshot.
### Read flow — sequence
```mermaid
sequenceDiagram
autonumber
participant client as Client
participant og as Omnigraph::query<br/>(query.rs:7)
participant cmp as omnigraph-compiler
participant exec as execute_query<br/>(query.rs:347)
participant gi as GraphIndex<br/>(RuntimeCache)
participant ts as table_store
participant lance as Lance scanner
client->>og: query(target, source, name, params)
og->>og: ensure_schema_state_valid()<br/>resolve target → snapshot
og->>cmp: parse + typecheck_query (typecheck.rs:83)
cmp-->>og: CheckedQuery
og->>cmp: lower_query (lower.rs:11)
cmp-->>og: QueryIR (pipeline of IROp)
og->>exec: extract_search_mode + dispatch (query.rs:110)
exec->>gi: build / fetch GraphIndex<br/>(if Expand or AntiJoin)
gi-->>exec: CSR / CSC topology
loop for each IROp in pipeline
exec->>ts: scan with predicate / SIP
ts->>lance: filter · nearest · full_text_search
lance-->>ts: Stream of RecordBatch
ts-->>exec: RecordBatch stream
exec->>exec: factorize · expand · fuse · project
end
exec-->>og: QueryResult (RecordBatches)
og-->>client: serialized result
```
**Code paths:**
- Entry: `Omnigraph::query` at `crates/omnigraph/src/exec/query.rs:7`
- Search-mode extraction: `extract_search_mode` at `crates/omnigraph/src/exec/query.rs:110`
- Pipeline runner: `execute_query` at `crates/omnigraph/src/exec/query.rs:347`
- RRF fan-out: `execute_rrf_query` at `crates/omnigraph/src/exec/query.rs:393`
- Per-source-row BFS: `execute_expand` at `crates/omnigraph/src/exec/query.rs:675`
- Lance scan + pushdown: `execute_node_scan` at `crates/omnigraph/src/exec/query.rs:1027`
- Filter → SQL pushdown: `build_lance_filter` at `crates/omnigraph/src/exec/query.rs:1158`
### Multi-modal search modes (`SearchMode`)
The executor recognizes three modes that may be combined in a single query:
- **`nearest`** — vector ANN (uses Lance vector index; `LIMIT` required).
- **`bm25`** — BM25 over an inverted index.
- **`rrf`** — Reciprocal Rank Fusion of two rankings, with k (default 60).
Hybrid example: `order { rrf(nearest($d.embedding, $q), bm25($d.body, $q_text)) desc } limit 20`.
### Joins / set operations
- Joins are implicit: MATCH bindings + traversals are implemented as scans + CSR/CSC lookups.
- `not { … }` lowers to an `AntiJoin` over the inner pipeline.
### Scoped reads
- `query(target, source, name, params)` — at any branch or snapshot.
- `run_query_at(version, …)` — direct historical query at a manifest version.
### Concurrency
- Snapshot isolation per query: all reads inside a query use the same `Snapshot`.
- Readers and writers on different branches don't block each other.
## Mutation execution (`exec/mutation.rs`)
Resolves expression values to literals, converts to typed Arrow arrays (`literal_to_typed_array(lit, DataType, num_rows)`), then writes via Lance's two-phase distributed-write API at end-of-query:
- `insert` (no `@key`, edges) → accumulate into `MutationStaging.pending` (Append mode); finalize calls `stage_append` once per touched table.
- `insert` (`@key` node) → accumulate into `pending` (Merge mode); finalize calls `stage_merge_insert` once per touched table.
- `update` → scan committed via Lance + pending via DataFusion `MemTable` (read-your-writes), apply assignments, accumulate into `pending` (Merge mode).
- `delete` → records a predicate into `MutationStaging.delete_predicates` (count matching committed rows now for `affected_*`); finalize combines a table's predicates into one `stage_delete` (Lance 7.0 `DeleteBuilder::execute_uncommitted`, a deletion-vector transaction) committed via `commit_staged` — no inline HEAD advance (MR-A).
**D₂ parse-time rule.** A single mutation query is either insert/update-only or delete-only. Mixed → reject before any I/O. The check fires in `enforce_no_mixed_destructive_constructive(&ir)` inside `execute_named_mutation`.
Multi-statement mutations are atomic at the publisher commit boundary: every insert/update batch lives in memory until end-of-query, then exactly one `stage_*` + `commit_staged` runs per touched table, then `ManifestBatchPublisher::publish` commits the manifest atomically with per-table `expected_table_versions` CAS.
### Mutation flow — sequence
```mermaid
sequenceDiagram
autonumber
participant client as Client
participant og as Omnigraph::mutate_as<br/>(mutation.rs)
participant cmp as omnigraph-compiler
participant stg as MutationStaging<br/>(exec/staging.rs)
participant ts as table_store
participant lance as Lance dataset
participant pub as ManifestBatchPublisher
client->>og: mutate_as(branch, source, name, params, actor_id)
og->>cmp: parse + typecheck + lower_mutation_query
cmp-->>og: MutationIR
og->>og: enforce_no_mixed_destructive_constructive (D₂)
loop for each mutation op
og->>og: resolve literals + build batch
alt insert / update (accumulate)
og->>ts: open dataset @ pre-write version (first touch)
og->>stg: ensure_path + append_batch (PendingMode)
opt update — scan committed + pending
og->>ts: scan_with_pending (Lance + DataFusion MemTable union)
ts-->>og: matched batches
end
else delete (stage, D₂ keeps separate)
og->>ts: count_rows (committed match → affected_*)
og->>stg: ensure_path + record_delete (predicate)
end
end
og->>stg: finalize(db, branch)
loop per pending table
stg->>ts: stage_append OR stage_merge_insert (one per table)
ts-->>stg: StagedWrite (transaction + commit metadata + fragments)
stg->>ts: commit_staged (advances Lance HEAD)
ts-->>stg: new Dataset
end
stg-->>og: (updates: Vec<SubTableUpdate>, expected_versions)
og->>pub: commit_updates_on_branch_with_expected
pub->>pub: publisher CAS (cross-table OCC on __manifest)
pub-->>og: new manifest version
og-->>client: MutationResult
```
**Code paths:**
- Entry: `Omnigraph::mutate_as` at `crates/omnigraph/src/exec/mutation.rs`
- Per-mutation orchestration: `mutate_with_current_actor` at `crates/omnigraph/src/exec/mutation.rs`
- D₂ check: `enforce_no_mixed_destructive_constructive` (in the same file)
- Per-op execution: `execute_insert`, `execute_update`, `execute_delete_node`, `execute_delete_edge`
- Pending-aware reads: `TableStore::scan_with_pending` / `count_rows_with_pending` at `crates/omnigraph/src/table_store.rs`
- Edge cardinality with pending: `validate_edge_cardinality_with_pending` at `crates/omnigraph/src/exec/mutation.rs`
- Per-query accumulator: `crates/omnigraph/src/exec/staging.rs` (`MutationStaging`, `PendingTable`, `PendingMode`, `finalize`)
- End-of-query Lance commit: `TableStore::stage_append`, `stage_merge_insert`, `commit_staged` at `crates/omnigraph/src/table_store.rs`
- Manifest commit primitive: `commit_updates_on_branch_with_expected` at `crates/omnigraph/src/db/omnigraph/table_ops.rs`
Atomicity guarantee for multi-statement mutations: a mid-query failure leaves Lance HEAD untouched on staged tables (no inline commit happened during op execution), so the next mutation proceeds normally with no `ExpectedVersionMismatch`. The publisher CAS at the very end either succeeds (manifest advances atomically across all touched sub-tables) or fails with a typed `ManifestConflictDetails::ExpectedVersionMismatch` (no partial publish). See [docs/dev/invariants.md](invariants.md) and [docs/dev/writes.md](writes.md).
## Bulk loader (`loader/mod.rs`)
- **JSONL only** in v1, with two record shapes:
- Node: `{"type":"NodeType", "data":{…}}`
- Edge: `{"edge":"EdgeType", "from":"src_id", "to":"dst_id", "data":{…}}`
- Lines starting with `//` are treated as comments.
- Schema validation on every row (typecheck, required props, blob base64 decoding).
- Edge endpoint resolution by node `@key`.
## Load modes (`LoadMode`)
| Mode | Semantics | Path (post-MR-794) |
|---|---|---|
| `Overwrite` | Replace all data in the target tables on the branch | Same accumulator; one `stage_overwrite` + `commit_staged` per touched table at end-of-load (a staged Lance `Operation::Overwrite` transaction — HEAD does not advance until commit; MR-793 Phase 2); publisher CAS. |
| `Append` | Strict insert; duplicates error | In-memory `MutationStaging` accumulator; one `stage_append` + `commit_staged` per touched table at end-of-load; publisher CAS. |
| `Merge` | Upsert by `id` (`merge_insert`) | Same accumulator; one `stage_merge_insert` per touched table at end-of-load (Merge mode dedupes by `id`, last-write-wins); publisher CAS. |
For all three modes, a mid-load failure (RI / cardinality violation, validation error) leaves Lance HEAD untouched on the staged tables — the next load on the same tables proceeds normally with no `ExpectedVersionMismatch`.
## `load` and the deprecated `ingest` shims
- `load_as(branch, base, data, mode, actor)` — the unified entry (single publisher commit per call). `base: Some(b)` forks a missing `branch` from `b` first (via `branch_create_from_as`, which enforces `BranchCreate`); `base: None` requires the branch to exist — staging fails on an unknown branch, so a typo'd name can never create one.
- `load(branch, data, mode)` — convenience wrapper with `base: None` and no actor.
- Returns `LoadResult { branch, base_branch, branch_created, nodes_loaded, edges_loaded }`.
- `ingest{,_as,_file,_file_as}` are `#[deprecated]` shims over `load_as` preserving the historical contract (`from: None` forks from `main`; returns `IngestResult`); they are slated for removal. The CLI `ingest` command is a deprecated alias of `load --from <base>`.
## Embeddings during load
The loader does **not** embed `@embed` properties at load time. `@embed` is a catalog annotation consumed by query typecheck/lint; vectors are supplied directly in the load data, or pre-filled by the offline `omnigraph embed` pipeline. Query-time `nearest($v, "string")` auto-embeds the query string via the provider-independent embedding client. See [embeddings.md](../user/search/embeddings.md). (Ingest-time `@embed` execution is a planned RFC-012 phase.)