Add single-field text_and_string indexing with native fast field support

[tlee732]

Summary

Single-field text_and_string indexing mode for companion splits. One tantivy field serves both full-text search and aggregations — replacing the dual-field __text companion approach for lower storage cost and simpler query routing.

Rebased cleanly on latest main (5 commits, no stacked dependencies).

Architecture

Each text_and_string column creates one tantivy field with two independent behaviors:

Capability	Storage	Tokenizer	How it works
Full-text search	Inverted index	default (lowercase + split)	Standard tantivy term/phrase queries
EqualTo / IN filters	Inverted index	default	PhraseQuery(slop=0) candidate, Spark post-filters
GROUP BY / aggregation	Fast field (columnar)	raw (original string)	Tantivy terms aggregation on raw values

Write path

schema_derivation.rs: TextAndString →
    TextOptions::default()
        .set_indexing_options(default tokenizer, WithFreqsAndPositions)
        .set_fast(Some("raw"))

indexing.rs: doc.add_text(field, val)
    → tantivy writes to inverted index (tokenized) AND fast field (raw) in one call

Read path — fast field transcoding

TextAndString fields are excluded from parquet transcoding in Hybrid mode because they already have native fast data from set_fast(Some("raw")). Without this, merge_two_columnars() combines native + transcoded data, doubling ordinals and GROUP BY counts.

The exclusion uses manifest.string_indexing_modes (checking for TextAndString) — not fast_field_tokenizer.is_some(), because build_column_mapping sets fast_field_tokenizer on ALL Str columns. Only string_indexing_modes correctly distinguishes TextAndString from regular string fields.

Manifest representation

ColumnMapping { fast_field_tokenizer: None }     // TextAndString: native fast data
ColumnMapping { fast_field_tokenizer: Some("raw") }  // Regular string: needs transcoding
string_indexing_modes: { "message": TextAndString }

Design decisions

1. string_indexing_modes as discriminator: All Str columns have fast_field_tokenizer set. Using .is_some() would skip transcoding for ALL Str fields, breaking regular string GROUP BY.
2. fast_field_tokenizer: None for TextAndString: Fixed build_column_mapping so the manifest accurately represents "has native fast data."
3. Hybrid-only skip: In ParquetOnly mode, native data is ignored, so TextAndString must still be transcoded.
4. Backward compat: string_indexing_modes is #[serde(default)]. TextAndString and string_indexing_modes were co-introduced, so no old manifest can have TextAndString without the entry.

Testing

6 Rust unit tests (transcode.rs):

• Hybrid: TextAndString skipped, regular string transcoded
• Regression: same fast_field_tokenizer on both, only TextAndString skipped
• ParquetOnly: all transcoded including TextAndString
• Requested columns: explicit request can't force TextAndString transcoding

3 Rust integration tests (indexing.rs):

• Single-field schema validation
• PhraseQuery false positive behavior
• Punctuation in fast field

Open items (out of scope)

1. Rust-side fast field post-filter: Would eliminate ~10% PhraseQuery false positives before Spark sees them. Rejected because companion streaming path bypasses searchWithSplitQuery. Spark candidate post-filter guarantees correctness.
2. Non-companion text_and_string: Java SchemaBuilder.addTextField(fast=true) uses one tokenizer for both inverted index and fast field. Separate tokenizers only available through companion schema derivation.

Dependencies

• Companion Spark PR: Add text_and_string indexing mode for hybrid exact + full-text search indextables_spark#292

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[tlee732]

Context: This implements the single-field approach proposed by Scott in indextables/indextables_spark#292 (comment), replacing the dual-field __text companion design. See that comment thread for the original design discussion, trade-off analysis, and the counter-proposal that led to this implementation.

Previous PR discussion: #156 (closed, same code rebased on latest main).

[tlee732]

Ready for first review (2026-04-09)

Scott, this PR is ready for your review. It's small — one focused cleanup commit that removes dead code from the single-field text_and_string indexing introduced earlier in this branch.

What the cleanup commit does (4879df5)

Removes the text_companion_fields: &HashMap<String, Field> parameter from four Rust functions in native/src/parquet_companion/:

• arrow_row_to_tantivy_doc
• add_arrow_value_to_doc
• add_string_value_to_doc
• build_doc_from_arrow_row

The parameter was a holdover from the dual-field companion design that the single-field rewrite (commit 32ee1ad) replaced. After the rewrite, the parameter was always initialized as let text_companion_fields: HashMap<String, Field> = HashMap::new(); and never read — pure dead code, only threaded through the function call chain.

Net change: 15 deletions across 2 files, 0 additions. Pure subtractive cleanup. cargo check --release compiles cleanly.

Why this matters: removing the parameter aligns #157's function signatures with PR #155 (feature/eliminate-store-files), so the two PRs no longer collide on this surface when both land on main. text_and_string routing now happens exclusively in the tokenizer selection path, not via a companion field map.

⚠️ Pre-existing test build failure — explicitly out of scope

The test code in native/src/parquet_companion/indexing.rs has 14 compile errors starting around line 3500 involving tantivy::collector::TopDocs trait bounds (E0277/E0282). These errors are pre-existing on this branch and are not caused by the cleanup commit — I verified by reproducing them with the cleanup git stash-ed.

The root cause appears to be tantivy API drift (the TopDocs: Collector trait bound isn't satisfied with the current tantivy version pinned by this branch's Cargo.toml). Fixing them is out of scope for this PR and should land in a separate PR focused specifically on test API compatibility. I called this out explicitly in the cleanup commit message so it's not a surprise.

The production cargo check --release is clean — only the test-compile path is affected.

Merge-order context — this PR is part of a 5-PR cleanup chain

The five cleanup PRs depend on each other in a specific order:

1. tantivy4java Persist _doc_mapping.json in split bundles for merge-time JSON sub-field recovery #155 (eliminate-store-files) — foundation, no dependencies. Ready as-is per the cleanup memo. Lands first.
2. tantivy4java Add single-field text_and_string indexing with native fast field support #157 (this PR) (text-and-string-clean) — depends on Persist _doc_mapping.json in split bundles for merge-time JSON sub-field recovery #155's json_subfields plumbing. Lands after Persist _doc_mapping.json in split bundles for merge-time JSON sub-field recovery #155. The text_companion_fields removal in this PR intentionally aligns my function signatures with those in Persist _doc_mapping.json in split bundles for merge-time JSON sub-field recovery #155 so the two merges don't collide.
3. A new tantivy4java release containing Persist _doc_mapping.json in split bundles for merge-time JSON sub-field recovery #155 + Add single-field text_and_string indexing with native fast field support #157 — required before indextables_spark #292 can compile on main.
4. indextables_spark/main pom.xml bump to that new tantivy4java version.
5. indextables_spark #287 (TEXTSEARCH/FIELDMATCH) — independent of tantivy4java, can land anytime.
6. indextables_spark #291 (INCLUDE/EXCLUDE COLUMNS) — independent of tantivy4java, can land anytime.
7. indextables_spark #292 (text_and_string single-field) — blocked on the tantivy4java release.

This PR is critical-path: it needs to land before indextables_spark #292 can be unblocked. No other indextables_spark PR depends on it.

Happy to answer questions on anything.

[schenksj]

Review — PR #157: text_and_string single-field indexing

🔴 Must fix: 14 compile errors (mislabeled as "pre-existing")

The cleanup commit (4879df5) carves out "pre-existing test build failure" as out of scope. That claim is wrong — main compiles cleanly (cargo check --lib --tests exits 0, 0 errors). All 14 errors live in the new tests introduced by this PR:

error[E0277]: the trait bound `TopDocs: tantivy::collector::Collector` is not satisfied
error[E0282]: type annotations needed
  --> src/parquet_companion/indexing.rs:3512, 3516, 3631, 3635, 3640, 3706, 3771

Every call is tantivy::collector::TopDocs::with_limit(10) without .order_by_score(). Every existing usage in the repo (indexing.rs:2600/2747/3246/3260, json_discovery.rs:89, jni_searcher.rs:85) appends .order_by_score() so the generic score type can be inferred. Fix: add .order_by_score() to all new test collectors in indexing.rs (lines ~3512–3771). This must land in this PR, not a follow-up — the branch is red until it does.

🟡 Fast-field / storage consistency

1. promote_meta_json_all_fast clobbers TextAndString's fast tokenizer. The field is written to disk with set_fast(Some(\"raw\")), so original meta.json has fast:{\"with_tokenizer\":\"raw\"}. At open time promote_meta_json_all_fast unconditionally overwrites to {\"with_tokenizer\": indexing.tokenizer} = \"default\". The same mismatch exists today for regular text fields (benign in practice because tantivy only uses the name at write time), but promotion should preserve an already-set fast tokenizer instead of overwriting, especially now that TextAndString makes the mismatch explicit and the name is meaningful.

2. Stale comment at transcode.rs:852-853 — merge_columnar_bytes still says "The native file has numeric/bool/date/ip columns. The parquet file has string/bytes columns. Since they have disjoint column names..." That invariant now only holds because the new columns_to_transcode skip excludes TextAndString. Native can now contain Str columns. Update the comment to state the invariant correctly, otherwise a future edit to columns_to_transcode that regresses the skip will silently double-count again.

3. ColumnMapping.fast_field_tokenizer = None now has dual meaning. Previously it meant "non-Str type, no transcoding." Now it also means "Str type with native fast data (TextAndString)." The discriminator is the combination of tantivy_type == \"Str\" and string_indexing_modes[name] == TextAndString. Add a doc comment to the field; any future caller that uses fast_field_tokenizer.is_none() as a proxy for "not a string" will silently break aggregations on TextAndString.

4. Dead code from the dual-field pivot. TEXT_COMPANION_SUFFIX = \"__text\" and text_companion_field_name() in string_indexing.rs are only referenced by their own unit test after the single-field rewrite (commit 32ee1ad) and the text_companion_fields parameter cleanup (commit 4879df5). Remove them.

5. Incomplete tokenizer normalization in build_column_mapping. The new code normalizes \"exact_only\" → \"raw\" and special-cases \"text_and_string\" → None, but leaves \"text_uuid_exactonly\", \"text_uuid_strip\", \"text_custom_exactonly:…\", \"text_custom_strip:…\" to be stored verbatim as fast_field_tokenizer, producing invalid tokenizer strings in the manifest. This is a pre-existing bug, but the partial fix invites confusion — either normalize all non-\"raw\" string indexing modes to \"raw\", or leave it entirely alone and track in a separate issue. Pick one.

✅ What's right

• Manifest-based discriminator (string_indexing_modes) rather than fast_field_tokenizer.is_some() — correct; the latter would skip all Str fields.
• Hybrid-only skip; ParquetOnly correctly still transcodes (validated by the new test_columns_to_transcode_parquet_only).
• Backward compat via #[serde(default)] on string_indexing_modes is safe — the two were co-introduced.
• Merge manifest union (merge.rs:165-180) correctly propagates TextAndString across merges with mismatch validation.
• hash_field_rewriter no-op arms are correct — single-field needs no query rewriting.
• ensure_fast_fields_for_query early-return covers the query-time lazy transcode path.
• Regression test test_columns_to_transcode_hybrid_distinguishes_text_and_string_from_regular directly exercises the fast_field_tokenizer.is_some() foot-gun.

Verdict

Do not merge until compile errors are fixed in-branch. The consistency items (especially 1, 2, 4) are worth folding into the same push. Items 3 and 5 can be a doc-comment tweak and a tracking issue respectively.