Module encoding 

Lance v1 column encoding grammar.

These codecs own the v1 wire layout, including schema dictionary payloads. They are intentionally not exposed through the version-free I/O layer.

Modules

binary

Var-length binary encoding.

dictionary

Dictionary encoding.

plain

Plain encoding

Functions

populate_schema_dictionaries

Load every persisted v1 schema dictionary into its in-memory field.

read_binary_array

Decode a binary-like array from a v1 values region.

read_fixed_stride_array

Decode a fixed-stride array from a v1 values region.

write_schema_dictionaries

Persist every schema dictionary using the v1 value codecs.