lance-format / lance-format/lance
Automatic cleanup of indexes on failed builds
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enhancement
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- Rust
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Description
When building indexes, we should track the files that are created. If the index build fails for any reason, we should clean up those files. Sometimes index builds fail for trivial reasons and need to be retried.
We want to track the files created anyways for https://github.com/lance-format/lance/pull/6011.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the index-building entry points and reviewing the related work in pull request #6011. Trace how build-created files can be recorded and define the failure path; done means files created by a failed index build are cleaned up so the build can be retried safely.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- data-engineering
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100