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Fixes #7611.

The defect

compareKey() resolved an ambiguous binary-search landing point to the boundary of the run of entries that compare equal to the search key only when the search key was a PARTIAL key. The guard reads as though a run can exist only under a partial key. It cannot: a page holds one entry per transaction that wrote the key - each commit appends its own (key, rids) entry rather than merging into the previous one - so runs under a full key are the normal state of every non-unique index built by batched loading.

LSMTreeIndexUnderlyingPageCursor.getKeys() merges a key group forward from wherever the cursor is parked, so an ascending scan that starts mid-run never sees the entries before it. An indexed >= (and the lower half of BETWEEN) therefore under-reported by floor((k-1)/2) of the rows equal to the bound for a run of k: silently, with no error, and with the unindexed scan over the same rows correct - so adding an index to make the query faster changed its answer.

>, =, <= and IN were not affected: a strict lower bound discards the run anyway, an upper bound is enforced per entry rather than by seeking, and equality goes through purpose == 1, which already collects the whole run.

The reporter found it on a TPC-H Q6 shape (l_shipdate >= '1994-01-01' AND l_shipdate < '1995-01-01'): 908,652 rows against the row scan's 909,455 at scale factor 1, every lost row with l_shipdate exactly equal to the lower bound.

The fix

The issue suggests dropping the convertedKeys.length < binaryKeyTypes.length guard in both compareKey() overrides. That is correct but leaves the resolution duplicated in two places and linear in the run length. This PR moves it instead into LSMTreeIndexAbstract.seekRunBoundary(), called from lookupInPage() - the only place holding the bracket the binary search has already narrowed (every entry below low compares HIGHER, every entry above high compares LOWER, so the run lies inside [low, high]). That makes the resolution:

  • correct for full keys, not only partial ones, in the mutable and the compacted index alike;
  • a binary search over that bracket rather than a linear walk, so a long run costs O(log k) comparisons instead of O(k). findFirstEntryOfSameKey stays as it is for purpose == 1, which needs every position in the run rather than just its edge;
  • written once instead of twice, which is what lets the explicit findFirstEntryOfSameKey in LSMTreeIndexCompacted.searchInCurrentPage() - the ascending half of the same problem, patched locally - go away with one source of truth left.

The descending direction was already masked by the page cursor walking back to the leftmost entry of a group before merging, but the seek now lands on the run's last entry in its own right rather than relying on that.

Verification

Issue7611IndexedRangeLowerBoundTest compares an indexed type against an unindexed twin holding identical rows:

test what it pins
inclusiveLowerBoundReturnsEveryRowAtTheBound every run length the defect distinguishes, k = 1..41 (shortfall floor((k-1)/2), so k=3 is the smallest failing case and k=1,2 must keep passing)
everySpellingOfTheBoundAgreesWithTheUnindexedScan >= literal, >= parameter, BETWEEN, >= AND <=, IN, =, >, <=
bothScanDirectionsSeekToTheBoundaryOfTheRun the seek itself, ascending and descending, inclusive and exclusive, through RangeIndex.range()
deletesInsideTheRunResolveAgainstTheWiderScan a run mixing live rows, deleted rows and a re-insert - the entries the fix makes visible for the first time have to resolve against the tombstones correctly
holdsAcrossManyPagesAndACompaction 8,000 rows over many index pages, before and after compact() (compaction used to reduce the loss without removing it)
batchedDateLoadMatchesTheUnindexedScan the batched ISO-date shape it was found on

All six fail on the previous code and pass on this one. The engine suite is green: 14,946 tests, the only failure being MultiColumnAggregationResultTest.emptySumAndCountStayZeroNotNaN, which fails identically on main at a2084b669 and is unrelated (time-series NaN aggregation).

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved indexed range queries when multiple records share the same key, ensuring ascending and descending scans begin and end at the correct matching records.
    • Corrected inclusive and exclusive range boundaries for indexed searches.
    • Improved equality, comparison, BETWEEN, and IN queries using indexed fields.
    • Improved composite-index range scans using leading-key prefixes, including before and after index compaction.
    • Added more reliable behavior for scans over duplicate-key entries.

…y run (#7611)

`compareKey()` resolved an ambiguous binary-search landing point to the boundary of the run of
entries that compare equal to the search key only when the search key was a PARTIAL key. The guard
reads as though a run can exist only under a partial key. It cannot: a page holds one entry per
TRANSACTION that wrote the key - each commit appends its own (key, rids) entry instead of merging
into the previous one - so runs under a FULL key are the normal state of every non-unique index
built by batched loading.

`LSMTreeIndexUnderlyingPageCursor.getKeys()` merges a key group FORWARD from wherever the cursor is
parked, so an ascending scan that starts mid-run never sees the entries before it. An indexed
`>=` (and the lower half of `BETWEEN`) therefore under-reported by floor((k-1)/2) of the rows equal
to the bound for a run of k, silently, with the unindexed scan over the same rows correct - so
adding an index to make the query faster changed its answer. `>`, `=`, `<=` and `IN` were not
affected: a strict lower bound discards the run anyway, an upper bound is enforced per entry rather
than by seeking, and equality goes through purpose 1, which already collects the whole run.

The resolution moves out of the two near-identical `compareKey()` overrides and into
`LSMTreeIndexAbstract.seekRunBoundary()`, called from `lookupInPage()` - the only place holding the
bracket the binary search has already narrowed. That makes it:

  - correct for full keys, not only partial ones, in both the mutable and the compacted index;
  - a BINARY search over that bracket rather than the linear walk the overrides used, so a long run
    costs O(log k) comparisons instead of O(k) (`findFirstEntryOfSameKey` stays as it is for
    purpose 1, which needs every position in the run, not just its edge);
  - written once instead of twice, which is what lets the explicit `findFirstEntryOfSameKey` in
    `LSMTreeIndexCompacted.searchInCurrentPage()` - the ascending half of the same problem, patched
    locally - go away with one source of truth left.

The descending direction was already masked by the page cursor walking back to the leftmost entry of
a group before merging, but the seek now lands on the run's last entry in its own right rather than
relying on that.

`Issue7611IndexedRangeLowerBoundTest` asserts an indexed bound against an unindexed twin holding
identical rows, at every run length the defect distinguishes (k=1..41, the shortfall being
floor((k-1)/2)), for every spelling of the bound, in both scan directions through `range()`, across
a `compact()` at a size that fills many index pages, over a run mixing live rows, deleted rows and a
re-insert, and on the batched ISO-date shape the defect was found on. All six fail on the previous
code.

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The change centralizes duplicate-key run-boundary resolution for LSM index iterators. Mutable and compacted indexes use this logic for full and partial keys. Regression coverage checks indexed and unindexed scans before and after compaction.

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Duplicate-key range scan correction

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Centralized iterator boundary resolution
engine/src/main/java/com/arcadedb/index/lsm/LSMTreeIndexAbstract.java
lookupInPage now resolves iterator matches to the first ascending or last descending entry in the equal-key run. seekRunBoundary uses galloping and bounded binary search, updates adjacent-step statistics, and returns the resolved entry position.
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engine/src/main/java/com/arcadedb/index/lsm/LSMTreeIndexMutable.java, engine/src/main/java/com/arcadedb/index/lsm/LSMTreeIndexCompacted.java
Both implementations remove local partial-key boundary walks. Compacted-page search uses the landing position supplied by centralized boundary resolution.
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engine/src/test/java/com/arcadedb/index/Issue7611IndexedRangeLowerBoundTest.java
The test compares indexed and unindexed partial-key scans in both directions before and after compaction.

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Solid fix, and unusually well-verified for an index-internals change. I read through LSMTreeIndexAbstract.seekRunBoundary() and its two call sites, walked the binary-search invariants by hand for both scan directions, and checked every remaining caller of lookupInPage for purpose 2/3 to make sure the new "already at the run boundary" contract holds everywhere it's consumed. I could not execute mvn verify in this review sandbox, so the analysis below is from static reading, not a local run; the PR description already reports a green 14,946-test local suite with one pre-existing, unrelated failure.

Correctness

  • The core idea (moving boundary resolution into lookupInPage, the only place holding the binary search's already-narrowed [low, high] bracket) is right, and the invariant comment at the call site (LSMTreeIndexAbstract.java:371-372) is accurate: the run is guaranteed contained in [low, high] by that point.
  • seekRunBoundary's inner binary search is correct in both directions. For ascending it restricts the search to [low, matched-1] and finds the leftmost ==0 entry; for descending, [matched+1, high] and the rightmost. Because the page is sorted, entries strictly outside the matched half can't reorder relative to the run, so narrowing to one half instead of re-searching the whole bracket is safe, not just an optimization.
  • Cross-checked the two downstream consumers of the now-corrected keyIndex: LSMTreeIndexCursor reads getKeys() immediately at lookupResult.keyIndex with no extra offset (correct, since ascending now already lands on the run's first entry), while LSMTreeIndexCompacted.searchInCurrentPage() still does --posInPage/++posInPage because that cursor's next() pre-advances before reading. Both are consistent with the new contract.
  • The zero-run-length-adjacent case is cheap: when boundary == matched (the overwhelmingly common case for high-cardinality keys), the method returns the original match object with no extra allocation, so the fix doesn't tax the fast path.

Code quality

Performance

  • The claimed complexity change (O(k) linear walk to O(log k) binary search for run-boundary resolution) checks out from the implementation, and it's a strict improvement with no added cost in the common no-run case, as noted above.

Security

  • No security-relevant surface here; this is internal binary-search/paging logic with no new external input parsing or trust boundary changes.

Test coverage

  • Issue7611IndexedRangeLowerBoundTest is thorough: run-length sweep (k=1..41, correctly including the two lengths that must keep passing), every SQL spelling that reaches the bound differently, both scan directions through RangeIndex.range() directly, a tombstone/re-insert interaction (which matters given engine/CLAUDE.md's note that LSM reads rely on newest-to-oldest ordering for correct tombstone resolution, exactly the invariant this fix's wider ascending scan now has to respect for the first time), a multi-page + compaction scenario, and the batched-ISO-date shape from the original report. Using an unindexed twin as the oracle rather than hardcoded counts is the right call here.
  • Nothing to add; this is more coverage than most fixes this size get.

Nice writeup in the PR description, too, the shortfall formula and the "index makes the query faster and changes its answer" framing made the review much faster.

lvca and others added 2 commits September 15, 2026 01:58
…7611)

Every other case in the fixture scans a single-property index, so it only ever passes a FULL key. The
run-boundary resolution used to live in the two `compareKey()` overrides behind a
`convertedKeys.length < binaryKeyTypes.length` guard - covering exactly the composite-prefix case
(#6592, #6694) and nothing else - and this change moved it into `seekRunBoundary()` for full and
partial keys alike. A regression on the prefix path would therefore have passed the whole fixture
unnoticed.

Adds a NOTUNIQUE composite index whose leading-key prefix group is a run: the prefix is scanned
through SQL and through `range()` in both directions, before and after `compact()`, against an
unindexed twin holding the same rows. All seven tests fail with the boundary resolution disabled.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The walk it describes moved to LSMTreeIndexAbstract.seekRunBoundary() in this branch. The two other
comments that explained the same mechanism were updated with the move; this third one, on the
fromPurpose root-page lookup, was missed, so a reader chasing "compareKey()'s PARTIAL MATCHING walk"
landed on a method that no longer has one.

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I traced through lookupInPage() / seekRunBoundary() and the two compareKey() overrides in detail, plus the callers in LSMTreeIndexMutable, LSMTreeIndexCompacted and LSMTreeIndexCursor. Overall this is a solid, well-reasoned fix with an unusually thorough regression suite. A few notes below, nothing I would consider blocking.

Correctness

  • The core idea checks out: seekRunBoundary() receives exactly the [low, high] bracket the caller's binary search has already narrowed at the point of a match, and the loop's not-equal-move-toward-matched branches are safe because page entries are sorted, so probing strictly on one side of a known-equal index can only ever see values on that one side of the comparator's sign. That invariant is exactly what the inline comments say, and it holds.
  • The reuse of the purpose-less compareKey(buffer, start, keys, mid, count) for the binary search, followed by one more call to it on the final boundary to re-establish currentPageBuffer.position(), reproduces the same buffer position the old purpose-aware compareKey() would have produced for that same mid. I checked this against both LSMTreeIndexMutable.compareKey() and LSMTreeIndexCompacted.compareKey(); the returned valueBeginPositions will match.
  • The removal of the two duplicated findFirstEntryOfSameKey/findLastEntryOfSameKey calls from the compareKey() overrides (now only used for purpose == 1), and of the manual findFirstEntryOfSameKey call in LSMTreeIndexCompacted.searchInCurrentPage(), is consistent with lookupInPage() now doing that work centrally for every purpose that needs it. I confirmed searchInCurrentPage()'s result.keyIndex really is pre-adjusted to the run's first entry by the time it reaches the --posInPage line.
  • LSMTreeIndexUnderlyingPageCursor.getKeys() merges a duplicate-key group forward only for ascending scans, so parking currentEntryIndex on the run's first entry (rather than wherever the binary search converged) is the right fix for that consumer too.
  • The two mid parameters changed from int to final int compile only because the reassignment they used to receive (mid = findFirstEntryOfSameKey(...)) is gone, correctly caught.

Performance

The PR description frames the win as O(log k) instead of O(k) for a run of length k, which is true, but it understates a secondary effect worth being aware of: for the very common case where no duplicate run exists, the old partial-key-only walk (findFirstEntryOfSameKey) cost one wasted comparison against the immediate neighbor, then stopped. The new seekRunBoundary() instead runs a full binary search over whatever [low, high] bracket the caller's search converged with, which can be much wider than 1 even when only a single entry actually matches (e.g. a match found on the very first probed mid still carries the whole-page bracket). That's an O(log page-entries) cost now paid on every ascending/descending iterator lookup that resolves to a match, for both unique and non-unique indexes, where before it was effectively free for full keys (the guard skipped it entirely) and explicitly skipped for unique indexes at the searchInCurrentPage() call site (result.found && !unique).

That guard's removal is very likely correct rather than an oversight: a unique index can still carry a tombstone-plus-live-reinsert pair for the same key across separate transactions (remove() appends a tombstone entry rather than mutating in place), so unique doesn't actually rule out a same-key run on a page. I don't think reintroducing a unique short-circuit is safe, but it might be worth a one-line note in seekRunBoundary()'s Javadoc that this cost is intentionally not gated on unique, since a future reader will likely wonder the same thing I did.

If the extra binary-search steps ever show up in profiling of read-heavy workloads, a galloping/exponential probe outward from matched before falling back to bisection would recover the O(1) no-run case while keeping O(log k) for genuine runs. Not requesting this now, just flagging it as a possible follow-up.

Tests

The Issue7611IndexedRangeLowerBoundTest suite is excellent: it isolates the exact run-length threshold (k=3), checks every SQL spelling that reaches the index, exercises both scan directions directly through RangeIndex.range(), mixes in tombstones/re-inserts, and forces the check across a compact(). The follow-up commit closing the partial-key blind spot in the fixture is a good catch of every other test in this file only exercising a full key.

One small thing I verified rather than assumed: the tests use count() with a WHERE clause. Per this repo's engine notes, count() only takes the cached-counter fast path for an unfiltered SELECT count(*) FROM Type (SelectExecutionPlanner.isMinimalQuery() requires whereClause == null), so these filtered queries do a real accurate count and are fine as ground truth, just calling it out since it's a common trap in this codebase.

holdsAcrossManyPagesAndACompaction and batchedDateLoadMatchesTheUnindexedScan insert on the order of 10-40k documents across many small transactions; depending on how long that runs in CI it might be a candidate for @tag(slow) per this repo's convention, though I didn't measure actual wall-clock time.

Note on verification

I reviewed this statically (read through the diff, the surrounding LSM index code, and the call graph) rather than running mvn verify myself, since I didn't have a way to execute a build in this session. The PR description states the full engine suite (14,946 tests) passes with only one pre-existing, unrelated failure; I did not independently re-run that, so it's worth a second confirmation from CI before merge if that hasn't already happened.

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…e bracket (#7611)

The bisection introduced with seekRunBoundary() searches the entire [low, high] bracket the caller's
binary search converged with. That bracket can span the whole page even when a single entry matches -
a match found on the first probed mid carries the full bracket - so every iterator lookup that
resolved to a match paid O(log page-entries), including the no-run case, which for a full key used to
cost nothing at all because the partial-key guard skipped the resolution outright.

Galloping outward from the landing point in doubling strides before bisecting what the last stride
jumped over restores that: ONE comparison when there is no run, O(log k) for a run of k, never the
O(log page-entries) of a bracket-wide bisection. The gallop's `bad` is the virtual index one past the
bracket edge when no mismatch is found before it, which the bisection never probes because it only
ever probes strictly between `good` and `bad`.

Also records in the Javadoc why the resolution is deliberately NOT gated on `unique`: remove()
appends a tombstone entry rather than mutating in place, so a unique key deleted and re-inserted
across two transactions owns a run like any other, and short-circuiting there would lose the older
entry exactly as it was lost for non-unique keys.

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I read through seekRunBoundary() and its call sites in detail (traced the gallop + bisect logic by hand against several run shapes, including the "gallop overshoots the bracket" case) and checked how the resolved keyIndex is consumed downstream in LSMTreeIndexUnderlyingPageCursor, LSMTreeIndexCompacted.searchInCurrentPage(), and the root-page probe in newIterators(). I was not able to run mvn verify in this sandboxed review session (build tooling is blocked here), so this is a static/manual review rather than an independently-executed test run; the PR description's claim of 14,946 green tests should be the actual gate.

Correctness

The core algorithm looks sound:

  • The invariant seekRunBoundary() relies on (every entry below low compares HIGHER and every entry above high compares LOWER) genuinely holds at all three call sites in lookupInPage() - the two boundary checks pass the untouched full-page bracket [0, count-1], and the binary-search loop only reaches the else branch once that invariant has been established by the loop itself. So the run is always fully contained in the bracket that gets searched.
  • I traced the gallop-then-bisect through both a "run fits well inside the bracket" case and a "gallop overshoots past the bracket edge" case (the sentinel bad = limit + step never actually gets probed, since the bisection only evaluates strictly-interior midpoints) and both converge to the correct boundary index.
  • Removing the !unique guard in LSMTreeIndexCompacted.searchInCurrentPage() (the ascending data-page positioning) is a deliberate and correct widening, not an oversight: a unique index can still accumulate a same-key run via delete+reinsert across transactions (tombstone entries are not merged in place), and the old guard would have left that case under the same bug for unique indexes. The Javadoc calls this out explicitly, which is good practice given how easy this would be to "fix" back in by a future reader who assumes unique implies no runs.
  • Worth flagging as a positive: keeping the descending resolution even though LSMTreeIndexUnderlyingPageCursor.getKeys() already self-corrects for descending via its own backward-then-forward merge looks redundant at first glance, but it is not - the root-page probe in newIterators() for a descending partial-key scan does not go through that page-cursor merge, so resolving to the true last entry there is load-bearing, not redundant.

Performance

The gallop-before-bisect shape is the right choice given the stated goal (one comparison when there is no run, O(log k) for a run of k, never O(log page-entries) for a plain bisection over the whole bracket). I did not find a case where the loop does more probing than that.

Test coverage

Strong regression coverage: run lengths 1..41 pinned against the documented floor((k-1)/2) shortfall, every SQL spelling of the bound, both scan directions through range() directly, interaction with tombstones and re-inserts, multi-page plus compaction, and the composite-prefix (partial key) path that the old guard used to own exclusively. Comparing against an unindexed twin holding identical rows is a good technique here since it makes the oracle trivially correct.

One nit on tagging: per this repo's @Tag convention (CLAUDE.md), functional tests with large batches or multi-second runtime should get @Tag("slow") at the method level. holdsAcrossManyPagesAndACompaction (8,000 rows plus a compact()) and batchedDateLoadMatchesTheUnindexedScan (about 43,800 total document saves across batched transactions) look like plausible candidates, worth a quick timing check to see if either crosses the threshold other tests in this package use (e.g. Issue5214MultiSeriesRangeTest tags at 80,000 keys). Not a blocker, just worth confirming these do not measurably slow down the default test lane.

Minor

  • The Javadoc on seekRunBoundary() is long but earns its length here given how non-obvious the invariant and the gallop/bisect sentinel handling are, I would keep it as-is rather than trim it.
  • The three call sites in lookupInPage() now all funnel through seekRunBoundary(), including the purpose 0/1 cases, which just early-return match unchanged. That is a clean way to get "written once instead of twice" without adding a branch at each call site, no complaint, just noting it is intentional and not a stray call.

Overall this is a careful, well-reasoned fix with a correctness argument that holds up under manual tracing, and the regression suite is thorough enough that it should catch a future regression on either the full-key or partial-key path. Isolating the defect down to the exact floor((k-1)/2) shortfall pattern is what made both the fix and the tests precise instead of just "seems to work now."

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✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 74.19%. Comparing base (a2084b6) to head (994d6b2).
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