* fix(engine): lower date/datetime filter literals as typed Arrow scalars `literal_to_expr` lowered `Date`/`DateTime` query literals as Utf8 strings, relying on DataFusion implicit casts. Against a physical `Date32`/`Date64` column that can coerce the column side (`CAST(col AS Utf8)`), which defeats a scalar BTREE and degrades the scan to a full filtered read. Lower to typed `Date32`/`Date64` scalars instead (reusing the loader's `parse_date32_literal`/`parse_date64_literal`, already used by the in-memory comparison arm), so the predicate stays a direct column comparison and the index is used. Malformed literals fall back to the Utf8 string so pushdown behavior never regresses. Tests: unit goldens asserting the lowered literal is typed (red before, green after) + inline-binding pushdown equality in literal_filters confirming the epoch conversion selects the right rows. * fix(engine): build scalar BTREE for enum and orderable-scalar @index columns `build_indices_on_dataset_for_catalog` only handled `String` (-> FTS) and `Vector` (-> vector). Enums are physically `String`, so an enum `@index` column (e.g. `status`) got an FTS inverted index, which Lance never consults for `=`; and `DateTime`/`Date`/numeric/`Bool` `@index` columns fell through and built nothing. Both meant equality/range filters degraded to full scans with `indices_loaded=0`. Dispatch index kind by property type via a shared `node_prop_index_kind`: enum + orderable scalar -> BTREE, free-text String -> FTS, Vector -> vector, list/Blob -> none. The helper is shared by the builder and `needs_index_work_node` so they cannot drift — the latter decides recovery- sidecar pinning, and under-reporting would leave a HEAD-advancing index build uncovered (invariant 5). Tests: scalar_indexes.rs asserts enum/DateTime/numeric @index columns report `IndexCoverage::Indexed` while free-text String/un-annotated columns stay `Degraded` (negative control). Docs: docs/user/indexes.md. * feat(engine): reindex in optimize to keep index coverage current A scalar/FTS/vector index only covers the fragments it was built over. Rows appended after the build (e.g. `ingest --mode merge`, whose commit does not rebuild an existing index) are scanned unindexed, and `compact_files` rewrites fragments out of coverage. Nothing folded them back in, so coverage decayed as the graph grew — even the id/src/dst BTREEs that power traversal. `optimize_one_table` now runs Lance `optimize_indices` after `compact_files` (incremental merge, not retrain — the same compact->optimize_indices sequence LanceDB's `optimize()` uses) and enters the publish path on compaction work OR stale index coverage (new `TableStore::has_unindexed_fragments`, reusing the fragment_bitmap logic). `optimize_indices` is a committing call with no uncommitted variant in lance-6.0.1, so it is an inline-commit residual covered by the existing `SidecarKind::Optimize` recovery sidecar spanning both ops. Blob-bearing tables are still skipped (the Lance blob-compaction bug is compaction-specific; reindex-for-blob deferred as a noted follow-up). Tests: maintenance.rs asserts an appended fragment is uncovered before and covered after optimize, and idempotency holds (second pass is a no-op). lance_surface_guards pins the `optimize_indices` signature and its incremental- coverage behavior. The existing optimize Phase-B recovery failpoint now also exercises a crash after reindex. Docs: maintenance.md, writes.md, invariants.md, lance.md, AGENTS.md. * fix(engine): coerce pushdown filter literals to the column type Filter literals were pushed to Lance in their natural Arrow type (every integer Int64, every float Float64). Against a narrower indexed column DataFusion widens to the literal's type and casts the COLUMN (`CAST(n32 AS Int64)`), which defeats the scalar BTREE and degrades to a full filtered read. A physical-plan probe confirms it: an Int32 column filtered by an i32 literal uses `ScalarIndexQuery`; by an i64 literal it does not. Thread the scan's `arrow_schema` through `build_lance_filter_expr` -> `ir_filter_to_expr` and coerce each literal operand to the opposite column's exact Arrow type, reusing `projection::literal_to_array` + `arrow_cast` (the same path the in-memory arm uses, so the two arms agree). Coercion never demotes a filter to None: on failure it falls back to the natural literal, because a node scan has no in-memory fallback for inline filters. Supersedes the date-specific change ine4ef67b(PR1): the probe shows dates were never index-defeated — temporal coercion casts the LITERAL, not the column — so PR1's index-use rationale was wrong though harmless. The generic coercion subsumes it; `literal_to_expr`'s date arms revert to the natural Utf8 fallback, and its unit tests now assert the live coerced path. Tests: surface guard `scalar_index_use_requires_matched_literal_type` pins the substrate behavior (matched -> index, widened -> column-cast full scan); unit tests cover Int32/UInt32/Float32 coercion, range op, reversed operand order, and the natural fallback; `literal_filters` adds an I32 column with equality + range and an F32 pushdown case. * fix(engine): only coerce filter literals when the cast is lossless The literal coercion inf064121narrowed unconditionally. typecheck permits numeric cross-type comparisons (`types_compatible`), so an out-of-domain literal reaches `literal_to_typed_expr` and casts lossily: a fractional float vs an integer column truncates (`{ count: 2.7 }` -> `count = 2`, wrongly matching the count=2 row) and an out-of-range integer overflows to null (`count < 3e9` on I32 -> `count < NULL` -> empty). Both silently change results, and a node scan has no in-memory fallback for inline filters. Add a lossless guard for integer targets: round-trip the cast back to the natural type and, on mismatch, return None so the caller keeps the natural literal (correct via DataFusion coercion; the index is just unused for that out-of-domain predicate). Float targets stay coerced -- narrowing F64 -> F32 is the column's own precision domain, not a value error. Resolves the two valid review findings on PR #216 (Codex float truncation, Greptile out-of-range). Tests: unit cases for fractional/out-of-range fallback vs whole-float/in-range coerce vs F32 exemption; e2e `{ count: 2.7 }` returns no rows.
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Indexes
L1 — Lance index types OmniGraph exposes
| Index | Use | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| BTREE scalar | = / range / IN / IS NULL on a scalar |
always on the node id and edge src/dst; and on each one-column @index/@key property that is an enum or an orderable scalar (DateTime/Date/I32/I64/U32/U64/F32/F64/Bool) |
| Inverted (FTS) | search, fuzzy, match_text, bm25 |
created on free-text (non-enum) String @index/@key columns |
| Vector | nearest() k-NN |
Lance picks IVF_PQ vs HNSW family by configuration; OmniGraph stores as FixedSizeList(Float32, dim) |
The per-property index a column gets is decided by node_prop_index_kind (shared
by the builder and the sidecar-pinning coverage check so they cannot drift):
enums and orderable scalars → BTREE, free-text Strings → FTS, Vector → vector,
list/Blob columns → none.
Free-text Strings are not equality-indexed. A non-enum
Stringcolumn (including aString @keyslug) gets an FTS inverted index, which Lance does not consult for=/range — only forsearch/match_text/bm25. So an equality filter on a free-text String falls back to a full scan. If you filter a String identifier by equality on a large table, model it so the value is the node id, or track it as a follow-up to also build a BTREE on such columns.
Coverage and cost. Each indexed column adds index files and build time, and an index only covers the fragments it was built over. Rows appended after the index was built (e.g. by
ingest --mode merge) are scanned unindexed until a reindex extends coverage; see maintenance →optimize.
L2 — OmniGraph orchestration
ensure_indices()/ensure_indices_on(branch)— idempotent build of BTREE + inverted indexes for the current head; safe to re-run.- Indexes are built on the branch head (not on a snapshot), so reads always see the current index state.
- Lazy branch forking for indexes: a branch that hasn't mutated a sub-table doesn't need its own index — the main lineage's index is reused until the first write triggers a copy-on-write fork.
- Vector index parameters (metric, nlist, nprobe, etc.) are not exposed in the schema; they default at the Lance layer and are picked up automatically when an index is asked for on a Vector column.
L2 — Graph topology index
This is OmniGraph-specific (not Lance):
- A Compressed Sparse Row (CSR) adjacency representation of edges, with both out- (CSR) and in- (CSC) directions, plus a dense per-node-type id mapping.
- Built on demand from a snapshot's edge tables, lazily: only when an
Expandthe planner routes to the CSR path (dense / large frontier) or anAntiJoinactually needs it. - Cached per snapshot (LRU, keyed by snapshot id + edge table versions), so repeat traversals over the same snapshot reuse it.
- Selective
Expands resolve neighbors from the persistedsrc/dstBTREE instead (one indexed scan per hop) and never trigger the CSR build; see query-language → Traversal execution. Pure scans, and queries served entirely by the indexed traversal path, skip it.