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Andrey Vasnetsov efab63d024 Add prefix matching option to keyword index (#9683)
* Add prefix matching option to keyword index

Introduce an opt-in `prefix` option for the keyword payload index and a
new `match: { "prefix": ... }` filter condition, enabling efficient
byte-wise prefix filtering over keyword values (e.g. URL prefixes,
web-ui value autocompletion via facet + prefix filter).

Index side: a new `prefix_index.bin` file stores a sorted, front-coded
key dictionary with a resident block index (cumulative counts per
block); it is an ordered view over the keys of `values_to_points.bin`
and stores no postings. Presence of the file signals prefix support at
load time, so legacy segments load unchanged and enabling the option
goes through the standard incompatible-schema rebuild. The mutable
variant keeps an in-RAM ordered key set (not persisted), the immutable
variant builds a sorted key vector at load, and the on-disk variant
reads the dictionary lazily (block index resident, 1-2 block reads per
prefix lookup; reader is generic over UniversalRead).

Query side: prefix conditions are served from the dictionary when
available (filter + cardinality estimation from per-block aggregates),
from the forward index as per-point checks, and degrade to the payload
full-scan fallback otherwise - same execution model as other match
conditions. Strict mode (`unindexed_filtering_*`) rejects prefix
queries on fields without a prefix-enabled keyword index via a new
KeywordPrefix capability.

HNSW payload blocks: prefix-enabled indexes additionally emit prefix
blocks for heavy branching trie nodes (single-child chains collapsed to
their longest common prefix, one block per distinct point set, emitted
largest-first) so filtered search with prefix conditions gets navigable
subgraphs without rebuilding the same subset repeatedly.

API: `prefix` flag on KeywordIndexParams (REST bool, gRPC empty
message for extensibility), `prefix` variant in the Match oneof, edge
python bindings, regenerated OpenAPI spec.

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

* Split prefix index into a dedicated module, fix clippy in tests

Reorganize the flat prefix_index.rs / prefix_read.rs into a
map_index/prefix_index/ module: format.rs (on-disk layout primitives),
writer.rs, reader.rs (PrefixIndex), map_read.rs (StrMapIndexPrefixRead
with per-variant impls) and tests.rs, with a file-format diagram and a
read-path walkthrough in the module docs. No logic changes.

Also fix clippy --all-targets complaints in test code: replace a
wildcard Match arm with an exhaustive list and a field-reassign-with-
default with a struct literal.

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

* Add OpenAPI test for prefix match and snapshot file-tracking test

- tests/openapi/test_prefix_match.py: index-less fallback, prefix index
  creation with schema echo, scroll/count parity against ground truth,
  facet + prefix filter (the autocompletion flow), strict-mode rejection
  without the prefix capability.
- test_prefix_index_file_tracking: `prefix_index.bin` is listed in
  `files()` / `immutable_files()` exactly when built with the option.

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

* Replace hand-rolled varint parsing with bytemuck Pod records

Per review: the prefix index format now uses fixed-size little-endian
Pod records (BlockEntry 24 B, KeyEntry 12 B, Header 40 B) written with
bytemuck::bytes_of and read back by copy via pod_read_unaligned — no
manual varint encode/decode, no alignment requirement, one shared
read_record helper. Costs ~9 bytes per key on disk versus LEB128; the
raw key bytes dominate dictionary size, so the simplification wins.

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

* Fetch the whole candidate block range with a single storage read

Candidate key blocks of a prefix lookup are contiguous in the file, so
enumerate them from one ranged read instead of one read per block; the
over-read versus the exact key range is bounded by the two boundary
blocks. Block decoding is split into a storage-free helper reused by
the per-block path of stats estimation.

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

* Align prefix payload blocks with the geo index granularity principle

Geo's large_hashes emits only the smallest geohash regions above the
threshold — a disjoint antichain, never a parent nested with its
children. Prefix payload blocks now follow the same rule: a heavy
collapsed trie node is emitted only if nothing heavy is nested inside
it, counting both deeper qualifying prefixes and single heavy values
(which already get their own exact-match blocks). Emitted blocks are
therefore mutually disjoint and disjoint from exact-value blocks; no
near-collection-sized ancestor subgraphs, no reliance on the HNSW
connectivity check to skip nested duplicates.

Implemented as a `covered` flag propagated through the existing
LCP-interval scan, still one O(total key bytes) pass.

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

* Document block wire format and unaligned-read rationale in decode_block

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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