fix: Make Milvus placeholder vectors valid on Milvus servers - #6881
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Feature views without a vector field get a placeholder vector because Milvus requires one per collection. The placeholder was 1-dimensional, filled with NaN and left unindexed. Milvus Lite accepts all three, but Milvus servers and Zilliz Cloud reject dim < 2 and non-finite values, and refuse to load a collection with an unindexed vector field, so these feature views could not be created or read. The placeholder is now 2-dimensional, zero-filled and FLAT-indexed. Vector fields without vector_index=True also get a FLAT index so the collection can be loaded. Existing collections keep working because the placeholder is filled to the dimension recorded in the collection. Also fixes the Milvus docs page title and example config. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Simon Hearne <simon.hearne@gmail.com>
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What this PR does / why we need it:
Milvus needs a vector field in every collection, so feature views without one get a
_placeholder_vector. It was 1-dimensional, filled withNaNand not indexed. Milvus Lite acceptsall of that, but Milvus servers and Zilliz Cloud do not:
create_collectionfails:invalid dimension: 1. should be in range 2 ~ 32768upsertfails:value 'NaN' is not a number or infinityload_collectionfails:index not foundSo feature views without vectors couldn't be used with a Milvus server. This PR:
vector_index=True(FLAT), so collections can load;collections with a 1-dim placeholder keep working;
connection_string.Milvus 2.6.0 and Milvus Lite 3.2.1 both reject collections without a vector field
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schema does not contain vector field), so the placeholder can't be removed.Which issue(s) this PR fixes:
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Unit (Milvus Lite): round trip for a feature view without vectors.
Unit (mocked client): placeholder dim ≥ 2 and indexed; placeholder values match a legacy 1-dim collection.
Server: round trip for a feature view without vectors. Fails on master with the error above.
Unit tests run on Milvus Lite 3.2.1 (pymilvus 3.0.2). Server tests in
sdk/python/tests/integration/online_store/test_milvus_remote.pyare markedintegrationand skip unlessZILLIZ_URIandZILLIZ_TOKENare set; they passed against a local Milvus 2.6.0 server and against Zilliz Cloud. The existing Milvus unit and universal integration tests pass unchanged.Misc
Part of a series of Milvus online store improvements for Zilliz Cloud and production Milvus.
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