fix: Load Milvus collections once instead of on every query - #6882
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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>
online_read and retrieve_online_documents_v2 called load_collection on every request, adding a round-trip to each read. The call also hid the fact that newly created collections were never loaded on Milvus servers, because indexes were created after the collection. Collections are now created with their index params, which makes Milvus load them straight away. Existing collections are loaded only if their load state isn't Loaded, and only the first time a store accesses them. The per-query load_collection calls are removed. 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:
online_readandretrieve_online_documents_v2calledload_collectionon every request.That call also hid a bug: collections were created, then indexed with a separate
create_index,which leaves them unloaded on Milvus servers.
index_params, so Milvus indexes and loads them at once.load_collectionisonly called if the collection isn't loaded. The result is cached per store instance.
load_collectioncalls are removed.Depends on #6881: every vector field must be indexed for the collection to load when it's created. Until #6881 merges this PR also shows its commit; only the last commit (
fix: Load Milvus collections once instead of on every query) is new here.Which issue(s) this PR fixes:
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Unit (mocked): an existing collection is loaded 0 times if already loaded and once if not,
across 5 reads; new collections are created with index params and no separate load.
Unit (Milvus Lite): spy confirms
load_collectionisn't called by reads or searches.Server: no
load_collectionper query; a released collection is loaded exactly once by a new store.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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