lance-encoding 6.0.0

Encoders and decoders for the Lance file format
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// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright The Lance Authors

syntax = "proto3";

package lance.pb;

import "table_identifier.proto";
import "table.proto";
import "index.proto";

// Serialized vector query parameters.
message VectorQueryProto {
  // Query vector as Arrow IPC bytes (supports Float16, Float32, Float64, UInt8, etc.)
  bytes query_vector_arrow_ipc = 1;
  string column = 2;
  uint32 k = 3;
  optional float lower_bound = 4;
  optional float upper_bound = 5;
  optional uint32 minimum_nprobes = 6;
  optional uint32 maximum_nprobes = 7;
  optional uint32 ef = 8;
  optional uint32 refine_factor = 9;
  // Distance metric type. Absent means None (use the index's default metric).
  optional lance.index.pb.VectorMetricType metric_type = 10;
  bool use_index = 11;
  optional float dist_q_c = 12;
  optional int32 query_parallelism = 13;
}

// Serializable form of ANNIvfSubIndexExec — the IVF sub-index search node.
//
// The prefilter child ExecutionPlan is serialized by DataFusion's codec
// automatically via children() / with_new_children(). The prefilter_type
// field tells the decoder which PreFilterSource variant to use when
// reconstructing from the deserialized child inputs.
message ANNIvfSubIndexExecProto {
  enum PreFilterType {
    NONE = 0;
    FILTERED_ROW_IDS = 1;
    SCALAR_INDEX_QUERY = 2;
  }

  VectorQueryProto query = 1;
  lance.datafusion.TableIdentifier table = 2;
  repeated lance.table.IndexMetadata indices = 3;
  PreFilterType prefilter_type = 4;
}

// Serializable form of ANNIvfPartitionExec — the IVF centroid routing node.
message ANNIvfPartitionExecProto {
  VectorQueryProto query = 1;
  lance.datafusion.TableIdentifier table = 2;
  repeated string index_uuids = 3;
}