ESQL - KNN functions with non-pushed down filters#131708
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| assert block instanceof DocBlock : "LuceneQueryExpressionEvaluator expects DocBlock as input"; | ||
| DocVector docs = (DocVector) block.asVector(); | ||
| // Search for DocVector block | ||
| Block docBlock = null; |
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Made LuceneQueryEvaluator more robust
| assert page.getBlockCount() >= 2 : "Expected at least 2 blocks, got " + page.getBlockCount(); | ||
| assert page.getBlock(0).asVector() instanceof DocVector : "Expected a DocVector, got " + page.getBlock(0).asVector(); | ||
| assert page.getBlock(1).asVector() instanceof DoubleVector : "Expected a DoubleVector, got " + page.getBlock(1).asVector(); | ||
| assert page.getBlockCount() > scoreBlockPosition : "Expected to get a score block in position " + scoreBlockPosition; |
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This was an uncovered bug
| from colors metadata _score | ||
| | eval composed_name = locate(color, " ") > 0 | ||
| | where knn(rgb_vector, [128,128,0], 140) and composed_name == false | ||
| | where knn(rgb_vector, [128,128,0], 10) and composed_name == false |
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We can see the change in action - we no longer need to use a large number for k to maintain semantics, nor to use limit at the end.
| if (failures.hasFailures() == false) { | ||
| if (p instanceof PostOptimizationVerificationAware pova) { | ||
| pova.postOptimizationVerification(failures); | ||
| } else if (p instanceof PostOptimizationPlanVerificationAware popva) { |
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Added PostOptimizationPlanVerificationAware to have the plan available for validations. This is similar to PostAnalysisPlanVerificationAware
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…er-non-pushed-down # Conflicts: # x-pack/plugin/esql/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/expression/function/EsqlFunctionRegistry.java # x-pack/plugin/esql/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/optimizer/LogicalPlanOptimizerTests.java
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…n-pushed-down' into non-issue/knn-prefilter-non-pushed-down
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Closing as non-pushed down prefilters will make knn use exact search instead, see #132944 |
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KNN functions include other filter conjunctions as pre-filters as per #131004.
However, when a KNN function has non-pushable expressions as prefilters, it cannot be pushed down to Lucene. KNN can be executed in the compute engine, but the prefilters will be executed as postfilters. This means than less than the top k results can be retrieved from the KNN function.
In order to retrieve the true top k results and maintain knn semantics, the following transformation will be made:
A query like:
WHERE knn(field1, [..], 10) AND non-pushable-filterWill be replaced with:
This way, knn becomes an exact search issued after the non-pushable filters.
The score for knn is then calculated to obtain the top K, and scores of zero are removed (could happen if minimum similarity is used).
This aims to maintain knn semantics and avoid filters to act as post-filters.