Add rerank to primary-key vector search#8591
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Reviewed the Core and Spark rerank paths, including candidate merging, snapshot-scoped physical rereads, deletion-vector handling, metric conversion, and refine option compatibility. Focused Core and Spark 3 tests passed locally.
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Summary
Add exact reranking to primary-key vector search so approximate ANN candidates can be reordered
with the original vectors stored in Paimon. The implementation reuses the Data Evolution refine
configuration semantics and supports both local and distributed Spark execution.
Changes
including aliases, prefix precedence, query-over-table precedence, factor validation, and
overflow-safe candidate limits.
reread selected rows by snapshot-scoped physical position, and recompute exact distances before
the final global Top-K merge.
global ANN candidates on the driver without starting a second Spark job.
Testing
overflow, candidate-stream isolation, and end-to-end reranking.
PrimaryKeyVectorSearchTest: 8 passed, including distributed driver-side reranking.git diff --check.Notes
1recomputes exact scores without over-fetching.