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Scan a session's tables at the cost of a scan, not of the FFI - #82
With #77 fixed, the GPT in xarray-sql's ML demos plans with einfold installed (benchmarks/ml/02_nanogpt.py, in xqlsystems/xarray-sql#269: a small GPT trained in SQL, with gradients from ddx, an XQL Systems project that differentiates SQL queries). But it was much slower than DataFusion alone. At the demo's default size, its loss took 6.2 s to plan and 2.4 s to run with einfold, against 2.3 s and 0.35 s without.
Most of that was scans. Every table a plan reads reaches einfold's Python extension as a foreign table, even an in-memory one, so each scan crossed DataFusion's FFI, its stable C interface between libraries. A foreign scan converts the session at planning, and the task context at each partition it runs. Each conversion copies the whole configuration as strings and wraps each of several hundred functions, both ways. The GPT's plan expands its views at each read, so it has about 1,500 scans.
This change does two things:
Every table is wrapped (Lean), so that its scans get the session's configuration only, with no functions or catalogs, and remember their statistics, which DataFusion's join planner asks for at every join. A scan given filters to evaluate still gets the whole session, since filters can name functions.
Small in-memory tables are copied once per plan (localize). That means DataFusion's own data source, with exact statistics of at most 64 MiB, the bound xarray-sql uses for the datasets it keeps in memory. The copy shares the table's buffers, and every scan of that name in the plan reads it, so none crosses the FFI. xarray-sql's lazily loaded datasets also report exact statistics, but through their own scan, so they're left to stream.
Results, from xarray-sql's environment, on an i7-8700:
GPT loss, default size
plan
run
DataFusion alone
2.3 s
0.35 s
with einfold, before
6.2 s
2.4 s
with einfold, wrapped scans
4.0 s
1.5 s
with einfold, wrapped and copied
3.9 s
1.1 s
At a mid size (batch 8, 64 channels, context 32), the loss is now about even with DataFusion alone (7.8 s against 7.3 s), and a training step is faster (1.6–2.1 s against 2.5–3.1 s). Two costs remain, and I'll take them up next:
each fold's fallback is planned again with everything below it;
EinFoldExec reports no statistics, so DataFusion can't tell the tables above it are small, and repartitions them.
Peak memory at that size is 5.9 GB with einfold, against 2.8 GB without. That's #79.
I tried relinking every built-in scalar function, as einfold already relinks SUM and MAX, since a foreign function also crosses the FFI at each call. It made no measurable difference here, so it isn't in this change.
Unnamed tables. A DataFrame's cached result (DataFrame.cache()) is a table without a name: every scan of one is called ?table?. So a scan of an unnamed table gets a copy of its own, rather than sharing the copy of its name. Without that, two cached tables in one plan read the same copy: the plan failed to plan where their columns differed, and gave wrong answers where they matched (fixes#93).
Tests. The Python suite passes (12 tests). The deep-plan tests read one table up to 60 times in a plan, so they check the copy against DataFusion's answers. test_tells_unnamed_tables_apart joins two cached DataFrames, one with different columns and one with matching ones; both fail without the fix. A new test changes an xarray-sql in-memory dataset's values in place between two queries, and checks that einfold sees the change: xarray-sql promises this, and a copy kept across plans would break it.
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Copies are shared by data, not by name. A name can name two tables in one plan, as when a DataFrame made before the name was registered again is joined with one made after. Each scan's table is a fresh foreign wrapper, so nothing else identifies it. A foreign scan of an in-memory table hands over the table's own buffers. So localize keys each copy by the scan's name, schema and row count, and by where every column of its first batch lies. Only scans that match share a copy. Planning now opens each scan once to read those addresses, which the release candidates' timings will show. test_tells_a_table_registered_again_apart gave a wrong answer before.
A scan with filters runs with the session's functions, as it's planned with them. If copying the tables fails, the bridge plans the query as the session would.
The change adds a Lean table-provider wrapper and localizes eligible scans before fold detection. Localization copies qualifying tables into memory. Tests compare enabled and disabled query results for in-place data changes, cached-table joins, and separate table registrations.
Lean wraps table providers and execution plans. Unfiltered scans use reduced session and task contexts, and statistics are cached. The codec returns Lean-wrapped providers.
Plan localization before fold detection python/src/lean.rs, python/src/bridge.rs, python/src/lib.rs
Localization selects eligible filter-free scans, copies qualifying tables into memory, and replaces matching scans. The planner attempts localization before fold detection and uses the relinked plan if localization fails.
Tests compare enabled and disabled results for in-place value changes, cached-table joins with matching or differing columns, and scans created before and after a table is re-registered.
Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium · Unblocks: 16 PRs
Sequence Diagram(s)
sequenceDiagram
participant Bridge
participant localize
participant Lean
participant DataSourceExec
participant FoldDetection
Bridge->>localize: Pass relinked plan and session
localize->>Lean: Inspect provider and scan
localize->>DataSourceExec: Read eligible table
DataSourceExec-->>localize: Return table batches
localize-->>Bridge: Return localized plan or error
Bridge->>FoldDetection: Detect folds using localized or relinked plan
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Possibly related issues
xqlsystems/einfold#58 — The change localizes eligible in-memory tables and wraps decoded providers, related to reducing repeated table conversion and copying across the FFI.
xqlsystems/einfold#39 — The change localizes eligible scans and tests in-place changes to xarray-backed values.
Merge Risk: Low · previous review 57889
A rare table-registration pattern can produce incorrect query results, while the mutation test may miss stale reads; the change is otherwise low-risk but these gaps should be addressed.
Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 57889
The optimization can confuse distinct table versions that share their first batch but differ in later batches, silently returning rows from the wrong source. The demonstrated scope is one query plan; cross-user access is not established. Compatibility with external providers also remains partly unverified.
Retained concerns
Medium · reliability · inferred: Whole-table identity is inferred from only the first nonempty batch. Two eligible sources with the same name, schema, row count and first-batch slices, but different later batches, receive the same localized source. This silently violates table-source ownership within the plan; error fallback cannot detect the successful but incorrect substitution.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — The source-substitution concern requires matching eligible sources already referenced by one plan. Copy and replacement maps are local to each localization invocation, bounding this mechanism to plan-local data ownership rather than a shared cross-session cache.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — The supported concern is incorrect source selection and result integrity, not a verified authorization bypass. Same-name table versions can coexist in a plan, but an attacker-controlled tenant boundary or unauthorized sensitive-data sink is not established by the inspected path.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Filtered scans retain the original planning session and execution context and are excluded from localization. Filter-free scans receive reduced contexts even when not localized. Whether external providers depend on the removed catalogs or function registries for policy enforcement remains unverified.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
inferred — The error fallback contains ordinary materialization failures, but it does not contain identity collisions: a matching partial identity is treated as successful reuse, so planning continues with substituted data.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Require complete source identity before sharing copies across independent sources, or keep their copies separate when identity cannot be proven. Validate the ownership invariant with equal first-batch buffers and differing later batches.
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The description follows the repository template. It leads with the user-facing effect (GPT planning and run times with einfold) and gives the cause, the two changes (Lean wrapping and localize copying), and benchmark tables. It also covers the unnamed-table fix (#93), the tests run, and remaining costs with follow-up issue #79. The template's 'Closes #' line is left blank, and the 'Decisions to review' section does not list reviewer decisions in the template's form, such as links to code and alternatives. The 'Not in this pull request' section is covered by the remaining-costs and relinking notes. The description is mostly complete, so it passes. The author should fill in the issue number and link the code for the decisions.
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[#93] The requirement: with einfold installed, a join of two tables registered from DataFrame.cache() returns the same rows as DataFusion alone. The reviewed head addresses this in python/src/lean.rs. localize copies each small in-memory filter-free scan once per plan, as DataFusion's native data source. The copy key includes the table name, schema, row count, and the buffer locations of the first batch. So two unnamed ?table? cached results with different columns get separate copies. Results with matching columns get separate copies unless their buffers are identical. The issue repro (4-row cached tables, under the 64 MiB bound) takes this path. python/tests/test_einfold.py test_tells_unnamed_tables_apart registers two cache() views with differing and matching columns, runs the same join with and without einfold, and compares the rows. It also checks that the plan with einfold uses einfold. The test shape matches the repro. I did not run the test suite. The compliance result rests on the source and the test code. Residual uncertainty: the fix applies only to small in-memory tables with exact statistics. Larger or inexact cached tables still reach the FFI through Lean, and no test covers them. The issue does not require coverage of those cases.
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The PR changes the scan path for all tables. Lean wraps each table, localize copies small in-memory scans, and codec.rs and bridge.rs route decoded and relinked plans through them. Their stated purpose is the PR's scan and FFI cost objective, which the PR title and description state. The #93 fix uses the same localize copy path, so the scan-cost work and the bug fix share one mechanism. The PR does not include relinking of built-in scalar functions, which the author excluded. The regression tests in python/tests/test_einfold.py cover the #93 case, same-name re-registration, and in-place dataset changes. These tests support the changed behavior. I found no change unrelated to the PR's stated scope. The changes since the previous review (filtered scans keeping session functions, fallback to session planning on copy failure, and data-based copy keys) lie within the same scan path.
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Review comments at @python/src/bridge.rs:
- Line 151: Update the plan construction around relink and lean::localize to
retain the relinked plan and use it when localization fails; continue
propagating errors from relink itself.
Review comments at @python/src/lean.rs:
- Around line 5-9: Update the module documentation at the first mention of
DataFusion’s FFI to identify DataFusion as the Apache Arrow query engine hosting
the session and expand FFI as “foreign function interface”; leave the
surrounding description of Lean and localize intact.
- Line 159: Update `fmt_as` and the related statistics and metrics code to use
unqualified `Formatter` and `MetricsSet` imports where applicable, and replace
abbreviated local names with descriptive ones, including in the provider
downcast, byte-size match, error mapping, and constraints handling.
- Around line 196-202: Update `lean_task` to copy all four function registries
into the `TaskContext` used by `LeanExec::execute`, so filtered and unfiltered
scans retain function resolution. Keep `LeanSession::task_ctx` and `localize`
using a separate stripped-context helper with empty registries.
- Around line 348-353: Update the named `Table` key and `Table::of` so scans
with the same table reference but different underlying `Lean.table` identities
are kept separate, while wrappers for the same underlying table remain
shareable. Propagate any fallible identity extraction through the `Table::of`
call sites used for copy insertion and lookup.
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- Line 35: Update the imports and call sites so source_as_provider and
provider_as_source are called through the default_table_source module; move the
futures::StreamExt trait import into first_of, the function that uses it.
- Around line 409-421: Update first_of to collect slices for every non-empty
batch in partition order instead of returning after the first, and change its
return shape accordingly. Rename Data::first and update its construction and the
call site in localize to use the complete batch-slice collection, so distinct
scans with identical first batches remain distinguishable.
- Line 429: Replace the tuple elements in the `scans` collection and the tuple
returned by `small_scan` with named-field structs, then update the relevant
construction and access sites to use fields such as `rows` and `scan` for
clearer call sites.
- Around line 391-406: Update slices to include each column’s child arrays when
building its Slice identity, recursively recording their buffer addresses, null
buffers, offsets, and lengths. Preserve the existing top-level array metadata so
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Compare every batch, not only the first batch with rows.
Data keeps rows (the total row count) and the slices of the first batch with rows. Two tables can share that first batch and differ in a later batch.
Trigger: a table is registered again under the same name. The new registration reuses the first RecordBatch and replaces a later batch with one of equal length. The old and the new DataFrame then produce equal Data keys. localize copies only the first table and points both scans at it.
Result: a join of the two DataFrames returns wrong rows.
Record the slices of every non-empty batch. The scan already hands over buffers only, so the extra cost is small. Rename Data::first and update the call site in localize to match.
Proposed fix
--- "a/python/src/lean.rs"+++ "b/python/src/lean.rs"@@ -405,20 +405,24 @@
.collect()
}
-/// Where each column of `scan`'s first batch with rows is.-async fn first_of(scan: &Arc<dyn ExecutionPlan>, context: &Arc<TaskContext>) -> Result<Vec<Slice>> {+/// Where each column of each of `scan`'s batches with rows is, in partition order.+async fn batches_of(+ scan: &Arc<dyn ExecutionPlan>,+ context: &Arc<TaskContext>,+) -> Result<Vec<Vec<Slice>>> {
let partitions = scan.properties().output_partitioning().partition_count();
+ let mut batches = Vec::new();
for partition in 0..partitions {
let mut stream = scan.execute(partition, Arc::clone(context))?;
while let Some(batch) = stream.next().await {
let batch = batch?;
if batch.num_rows() > 0 {
- return Ok(slices(&batch));+ batches.push(slices(&batch));
}
}
}
- Ok(Vec::new())+ Ok(batches)
}
/// `table`'s rows, and a scan of them, if it's a small in-memory table: one
/// DataFusion's own data source scans, as it does an in-memory table, whose
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Update first_of to collect slices for every non-empty batch in partition order
instead of returning after the first, and change its return shape accordingly.
Rename Data::first and update its construction and the call site in localize to
use the complete batch-slice collection, so distinct scans with identical first
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🪭 Claude (einfold): I've left this one, with a reason. Reading every batch's addresses means streaming every scan of every table through the FFI at planning, which is the cost the copy exists to avoid: the GPT plan this was measured on has about 1,500 scans. What tells two tables apart is the name, the schema, the exact row count, and where every column of the first batch lies, nested children included (now). For two of them to match yet differ, a table would have to be registered again under the same name, with the same schema and number of rows, with its first batch made of the very same buffers, and only later batches changed. I've added nested children, which the same cost covers.
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Review comments at @python/src/bridge.rs:
- Around line 173-176: Track localization fallback failures in the existing
Counts metrics: increment a new localize_failures counter whenever
lean::localize fails and the code falls back to relinked, then expose that
counter alongside the existing EinFold counters. Preserve the current fallback
behavior.
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- Around line 433-452: Update small_scan to require that table.table is an
in-memory MemTable before accepting a DataSourceExec scan under the COPIED_BYTES
limit; keep other providers, including ListingTable file scans, on the normal
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set -o pipefail
printf'%s\n''--- localize implementation and helpers ---'
sed -n '300,540p' python/src/lean.rs
printf'%s\n''--- all localize-related symbols and error paths ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.rs' -e 'localize' -e 'copy' -e 'MemTable' -e 'TableSource' python/src/lean.rs
printf'%s\n''--- table-provider scan and FFI-related definitions ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.rs' -e 'struct LocalRules' -e 'impl QueryPlanner' -e 'FFI' python/src/bridge.rs python/src/lean.rs
sed -n '185,340p' python/src/bridge.rs
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Length of output: 17199
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set -o pipefail
printf'%s\n''--- final localize transform ---'
sed -n '532,565p' python/src/lean.rs
printf'%s\n''--- Lean construction and source binding ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.rs' -e 'Lean::new' -e 'provider_as_source' -e 'source_as_provider' -e 'TableSource' python/src
printf'%s\n''--- surrounding Lean construction ---'forfin$(rg -l -F --glob '*.rs''Lean::new' python/src || true);doprintf'%s\n'"--- $f"
sed -n '1,220p'"$f"done
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Count localization fallbacks without claiming a full-session fallback.
localize errors are discarded and retried for each plan. A repeated failure can therefore leave eligible tables uncopied on every query. Since Counts is already exposed through EinFold, add a localize_failures counter if this performance fallback must be diagnosable.
The fallback does not restore the full session for every scan. relinked still contains Lean providers, so filterless scans use LeanSession; the table remains foreign and is not replaced by a native copy.
let plan = match lean::localize(relinked.clone(), session).await {
Ok(localized) => localized,
- Err(_) => relinked,+ Err(_) => {+ self.counts+ .localize_failures+ .fetch_add(1, Ordering::Relaxed);+ relinked+ }
};
Expose the counter alongside the existing EinFold counters.
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Track localization fallback failures in the existing Counts metrics: increment a
new localize_failures counter whenever lean::localize fails and the code falls
back to relinked, then expose that counter alongside the existing EinFold
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Assert that the mutation changes the baseline result.
The test discards the result before mutating w. It then compares only the two post-mutation results. If both sessions return stale data, the test still passes. Store the pre-mutation result and assert that the baseline result changes before comparing it with the einfold result. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Update test_sees_values_changed_in_place to store the pre-mutation baseline
query result, then assert that the baseline query result differs after mutating
w["val"]. Keep comparing the post-mutation baseline and einfold results to
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Every table a plan reads reaches einfold's Python extension as a foreign
table, even an in-memory one, so each scan crossed DataFusion's FFI. A
foreign scan converts the session at planning and the task context at each
partition it runs, copying the whole configuration as strings and wrapping
every function, both ways. A plan that expands views, as xarray-sql's GPT
demo does, has hundreds of scans, so its loss planned 2.6 times and ran
7 times slower with einfold than without.
Tables are now wrapped so that their scans get the session's configuration
only, with no functions or catalogs, unless the table is given filters, and
remember their statistics. Small in-memory tables (DataFusion's own data
source, at most 64 MiB) are read once per plan into a copy sharing their
buffers, which every scan of that name in the plan reads.
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localize copied each in-memory table once per plan, keyed by its name. A
DataFrame's cached result is a table without a name, so every scan of one
is called `?table?`, and two of them in one plan shared one copy: a join
of two cached DataFrames read the first table twice, which failed to plan
where their columns differed and gave wrong answers where they matched.
A scan of an unnamed table now reads a copy of its own.
Fixes#93.
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🪭 Claude (einfold)
For #79's first ask: measure peak memory next to time, einfold off and
on. `python/benchmarks/memory.py` runs each case in a process of its
own, so each peak is that case's alone. The peak is Linux's VmHWM, the
process's peak resident memory, reset just before the query, so it
counts what the query adds above its loaded tables. Each case runs three
times, and the fastest time and largest peak are reported.
The cases:
- #79's contraction `x(s, p, k) · w(k, e)`, at s = 16, 64 and 256;
- demo 1's causal attention, at 1,024 and 4,096 tokens;
- with `XARRAY_SQL` pointing at an xarray-sql checkout, the loss and the
gradients of its GPT demo (`benchmarks/ml/02_nanogpt.py`, in
xqlsystems/xarray-sql#269), at batch 8, 64 channels, context 32.
From xarray-sql's environment, on this stack (#82, #83), on an i7-8700:
| case | einfold off | einfold on |
|---|---:|---:|
| contraction-16 | 104 ms, 106 MB | 8 ms, 71 MB |
| contraction-64 | 302 ms, 171 MB | 14 ms, 103 MB |
| contraction-256 | 1,359 ms, 400 MB | 42 ms, 175 MB |
| attention-1024 | 1,912 ms, 630 MB | 14 ms, 99 MB |
| attention-4096 | 48,905 ms, 6,059 MB | 39 ms, 117 MB |
| gpt-loss | 7,048 ms, 2,320 MB | 7,272 ms, 3,079 MB |
| gpt-gradients | 2,510 ms, 1,184 MB | 1,240 ms, 587 MB |
einfold takes less memory than DataFusion in every case but the GPT's
loss. That's the case #79's second ask is about: `EinFoldExec` reads its
inputs whole, where the host's joins stream their larger side.
It's a script to run by hand, not a test: it needs datafusion-python,
and the GPT cases need xarray-sql and ddxdb (ddx's Python package; ddx,
an XQL Systems project, differentiates SQL queries).
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With #77 fixed, the GPT in xarray-sql's ML demos plans with einfold installed (
benchmarks/ml/02_nanogpt.py, in xqlsystems/xarray-sql#269: a small GPT trained in SQL, with gradients from ddx, an XQL Systems project that differentiates SQL queries). But it was much slower than DataFusion alone. At the demo's default size, its loss took 6.2 s to plan and 2.4 s to run with einfold, against 2.3 s and 0.35 s without.Most of that was scans. Every table a plan reads reaches einfold's Python extension as a foreign table, even an in-memory one, so each scan crossed DataFusion's FFI, its stable C interface between libraries. A foreign scan converts the session at planning, and the task context at each partition it runs. Each conversion copies the whole configuration as strings and wraps each of several hundred functions, both ways. The GPT's plan expands its views at each read, so it has about 1,500 scans.
This change does two things:
Lean), so that its scans get the session's configuration only, with no functions or catalogs, and remember their statistics, which DataFusion's join planner asks for at every join. A scan given filters to evaluate still gets the whole session, since filters can name functions.localize). That means DataFusion's own data source, with exact statistics of at most 64 MiB, the bound xarray-sql uses for the datasets it keeps in memory. The copy shares the table's buffers, and every scan of that name in the plan reads it, so none crosses the FFI. xarray-sql's lazily loaded datasets also report exact statistics, but through their own scan, so they're left to stream.Results, from xarray-sql's environment, on an i7-8700:
At a mid size (batch 8, 64 channels, context 32), the loss is now about even with DataFusion alone (7.8 s against 7.3 s), and a training step is faster (1.6–2.1 s against 2.5–3.1 s). Two costs remain, and I'll take them up next:
EinFoldExecreports no statistics, so DataFusion can't tell the tables above it are small, and repartitions them.Peak memory at that size is 5.9 GB with einfold, against 2.8 GB without. That's #79.
I tried relinking every built-in scalar function, as einfold already relinks
SUMandMAX, since a foreign function also crosses the FFI at each call. It made no measurable difference here, so it isn't in this change.Unnamed tables. A DataFrame's cached result (
DataFrame.cache()) is a table without a name: every scan of one is called?table?. So a scan of an unnamed table gets a copy of its own, rather than sharing the copy of its name. Without that, two cached tables in one plan read the same copy: the plan failed to plan where their columns differed, and gave wrong answers where they matched (fixes #93).Tests. The Python suite passes (12 tests). The deep-plan tests read one table up to 60 times in a plan, so they check the copy against DataFusion's answers.
test_tells_unnamed_tables_apartjoins two cached DataFrames, one with different columns and one with matching ones; both fail without the fix. A new test changes an xarray-sql in-memory dataset's values in place between two queries, and checks that einfold sees the change: xarray-sql promises this, and a copy kept across plans would break it.After CodeRabbit's review
localizekeys each copy by the scan's name, schema and row count, and by where every column of its first batch lies. Only scans that match share a copy. Planning now opens each scan once to read those addresses, which the release candidates' timings will show.test_tells_a_table_registered_again_apartgave a wrong answer before.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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