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1a8c9a6397 [UpdateOnly] implement the appendable quantized-vector overlay (dense, Binary/Turbo) (#10161)
* [UpdateOnly] implement the appendable quantized-vector overlay (dense, Binary/Turbo)

Appendable/plain segments can carry live quantized vectors today: PlainVectorIndex::
update_vector calls quantized_vectors.upsert_vector alongside the raw vector on every
insert (lib/segment/src/index/plain_vector_index/lifecycle.rs), auto-created for a
fresh segment when appendable_quantization is on and the method supports it
(QuantizationConfig::supports_appendable — Binary and Turbo only; Scalar/Product are
policy-gated off regardless of storage backend). The update-only vector-storage stack
(this PR's base) had no equivalent: UpdateOnlyVectorStorage::open never read
quantization_config, and nothing under vector_storage/*/update_only/ mentioned
quantization at all — a segment configured with quantization would silently lose it
end-to-end once written through this path.

This adds UpdateOnlyQuantizedVectors, mirroring QuantizedVectors' auto-create/reopen
behavior but scoped to dense (single-vector) Binary/Turbo — the two methods that
support incremental appends, matching current capability exactly (multivector support
is a follow-up: it needs its own append-only offsets storage, mirroring
MultivectorOffsetsStorageChunked the same way this mirrors QuantizedChunkedStorage).

The only new machinery is UpdateOnlyQuantizedChunkedStorage, an EncodedStorage backed
by UpdateOnlyChunkedVectors (append-only, S: UniversalAppend) instead of
ChunkedVectors' positional writes (S: UniversalWrite) — everything else reuses the
quantization crate's EncodedVectorsBin::encode/load and EncodedVectorsTQ::encode/load
completely unchanged, since both are already generic over the storage backend. It
writes files in the exact layout QuantizedChunkedStorage reads, so a promoted segment's
quantized data reads through the existing, unmodified reader with no new reading code.
UpdateOnlyChunkedVectors gains one addition: a `get` method to read back a single
vector, needed because EncodedVectors::load validates the storage's vector size by
reading vector 0 (skipped when the store is still empty).

Verified: the update-only writer's persisted bytes, read back through the standard
(non-update-only) QuantizedChunkedStorage + EncodedVectorsBin/TQ::load, match a
RAM-backed reference fed the same vectors one at a time through upsert_vector,
byte-for-byte, for both Binary and Turbo.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* [UpdateOnly] fix quantized reopen: resume writing shouldn't validate stored reads

The previous commit made reopening a non-empty quantized overlay panic
(EncodedVectorsBin/TQ::load validates a non-empty store by reading its
vector 0, which UpdateOnlyQuantizedChunkedStorage's write-only design
cannot serve) and worked around it with a redundant pre-check plus a
todo!(), narrowing the tests to single-session-only writes.

Both of those were the wrong fix. A writer resuming appends doesn't need
`load`'s read-and-validate — it only needs the fitted metadata (encoding,
stats) to keep encoding consistently, and that invariant already holds by
construction: every vector this writer ever encodes is sized from the same
`quantized_vector_size` `load` and the new path both read. Added
`EncodedVectorsBin`/`EncodedVectorsTQ::reopen_for_write` to the
quantization crate — identical to `load` minus the validating read — and
switched `open_existing` to it. `UpdateOnlyQuantizedChunkedStorage` stays
write-only as originally designed; no new read capability, no pre-check,
no todo.

Tests restored to the original two-writer split (write half, drop, reopen,
write the rest), now genuinely exercising resume-with-data instead of
avoiding it, and still passing byte-for-byte against the reference.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* [UpdateOnly] split EncodedStorage into EncodedStorageWrite + EncodedStorage

A write-only storage (the update-only quantized overlay) had to fake a
full EncodedStorage impl with unreachable!() read stubs just to satisfy
EncodedVectorsBin/TQ's generic bound. Split the trait so a write-only
backend only needs to implement EncodedStorageWrite; EncodedStorage adds
the read methods on top. The overlay now implements EncodedStorageWrite
alone — no panicking stand-ins for methods that don't exist.

* [UpdateOnly] remove UpdateOnlyQuantizedVectors::create

Nothing in this stack builds the first appendable segment of a
collection yet (that's still a todo!() in edge/src/update_only), so
create() had no real caller and open() had to guess from file absence
whether to invoke it. open() now only reopens an overlay create()
already persisted; the bootstrap logic moved into tests.rs as a
private fixture helper, since tests still need it to build fixtures.

* [UpdateOnly] fix CI: codespell typo and lint dead-code on unwired write path

codespell flagged "implementors" (wants "implementers") in two doc
comments. Separately, CI's lint job runs clippy without --all-targets,
so the update-only quantized write path — genuinely unreachable from
any non-test code until #10152 wires it into a segment — trips
-D warnings dead-code. Scope #![allow(dead_code)] to the two files
that are only exercised by their own tests today, and allow the now
test-only UpdateOnlyQuantizedChunkedStorageBuilder re-export.

* [UpdateOnly] fix ast-grep: use expect(dead_code) instead of allow

* fix CI: remove unused EncodedStorageWrite import in gpu vector storage

Left over from splitting EncodedStorage into EncodedStorageWrite +
EncodedStorage; only caught under --all-features since gpu is gated
behind a feature flag.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: qdrant-cloud-bot <111755117+qdrant-cloud-bot@users.noreply.github.com>
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