lance-format / lance-format/lance

Optimize rowid / rowaddr filters

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Since Jul 2, 2025.

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Description

We allow users to filter on the _rowid and _rowaddr columns:

ds.to_table(filter=f"_rowid = {some_row_id}", with_row_id=True)

However, we apply this filter as an in-memory filter. In other words, to satisfy the above to_table call, we would read the entire table from disk.

Instead, we should treat _rowid and _rowaddr as having an implicit scalar index.

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