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Ports pgvector 0.8.5's parallel HNSW index build (hnswbuild.c: HnswBeginParallel, HnswParallelBuildMain, HnswParallelScanAndInsert, ParallelHeapScan, HnswEndParallel, ComputeParallelWorkers) onto pgrust's parallel-context API. CREATE INDEX ... USING hnsw now honours max_parallel_maintenance_workers (and the parallel_workers reloption) like C. Built on top of #95 (merged in as the base of this branch).

100k × 128-dim, m=16, ef_construction=64, maintenance_work_mem=64MB before after
serial (max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 0) 80 s 79.9 s
2 workers 80 s (no parallel build) 28.0 s
4 workers 18.1 s

For reference, native PostgreSQL 18 + pgvector 0.8.6 on the same machine builds the same index in 20.5 s with 2 workers (56.7 s serial).

Design

C keeps the in-memory graph in a DSM segment with relative pointers and an LWLock per element. Here the graph is a thread-shared SharedGraph in pgvector_hnsw_build:

  • Element arena (graph.rs): append-only chunked storage (AtomicPtr<Chunk> directory, 1024 slots per chunk, len published with Release); elem(id) is an Acquire load plus an index, no lock, no refcount. Allocation is serialized by a small mutex (C: allocatorLock). Per-element Mutexes guard neighbor lists / heaptids exactly where C holds the element's LWLock.
  • Insert protocol (algo.rs): C's InsertTupleInMemory line by line — entryWaitLock/entryLock dance with the exclusive upgrade when the new element's level exceeds the entry point's, neighbor lists copied out under the owner's lock, each neighbor updated under its own lock, duplicates appended to the existing element and never added to the head list.
  • Flush protocol (lib.rs, flush.rs): flushLock as an RwLock held shared across the whole in-memory insert and exclusive around FlushPages (C InsertTuple 510-574), memoryMargin of 1 MiB when parallel.
  • Driver (parallel.rs): HnswShared (oids, concurrency flag, done counter + condvar, parallel block-scan descriptor, the graph, build parameters) published via the parallel context's private slot; the leader participates, then waits for nparticipantsdone == nlaunched + 1 while draining worker messages so a worker error surfaces instead of hanging; WaitForParallelWorkersToFinish → snapshot unregister → DestroyParallelContextExitParallelMode. Workers open the relations with C's lock modes (incl. CONCURRENTLY), build their own HnswSupport (FmgrInfo is not Send), join the parallel heap scan through a new execindexing::table_index_build_scan_with(scan) (C's trailing scan argument) and insert into the shared graph. Every refusal (no workers configured, none launched) falls back to the serial build on the same graph.

One implementation serves serial and parallel builds (C switches on base == NULL); the serial path's behaviour is unchanged (hnsw_vector.sql byte-identical, serial timing unchanged).

Lock order (acyclic, checked at every acquisition site): flush_lock (RwLock) → entry_wait_lock (Mutex) → entry_lock (RwLock) → per-element mutexes (neighbors, heaptids, placement) / alloc_lock / head / entry_point. update_connection runs under one neighbor's mutex and reads only immutable values, so element mutexes never nest. Arena happens-before: an element id crosses threads only through mutex-protected containers (entry point, neighbor lists, head list) or the len Acquire load, each of which synchronizes with the publisher's Release after the slot is written; slots are never moved or freed before the graph is dropped, so elem(id) -> &SharedElement needs no lock.

Recorded divergences

  • Arena memory is kept until the build ends (C frees graphCtx at flush), so peak RSS during the on-disk phase is up to maintenance_work_mem higher than C's.
  • The memory check is not taken under the allocator lock (C holds allocatorLock across check + allocation); the budget can be overshot by at most one element per participant, well inside the 1 MiB parallel margin, and the flush decision is re-checked under the exclusive flush lock.
  • plan_create_index_workers is not ported: expression/predicate indexes build serially (no PlannerRun for is_parallel_safe); there is no 32 MB-per-participant maintenance_work_mem floor; the parallel_workers reloption bypasses the min_parallel_table_scan_size gate as in C.
  • The parallel context is created under library name "postgres" (the pgrust worker lookup panics on any other name).
  • Memory accounting uses the Rust struct sizes, so the exact tuple count at which the "no longer fits into maintenance_work_mem" notice fires differs from C.
  • Progress reporting (pgstat_progress_update_param) is not ported, as before.

Verification

Check Result
cargo test --release -p pgvector_hnsw_build (arena publication/chunk-boundary, 8-writer/4-reader race, 4-thread insert invariants, worker-count log3 rule, flush serialization) all pass; concurrency tests looped 20×
cargo build --release --locked --bin postgres ok, no warnings from the crate
upstream regress hnsw_vector, vector_type zero diff
workers observed leader + 2 workers processed 14499 + 16686 + 18815 = 50000 tuples
recall@10 (20k rows) serial vs 2 workers 0.790 vs 0.780
maintenance_work_mem = 4MB + 2 workers exactly one NOTICE, index valid, index top-10 == seqscan top-10
CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY with workers valid index
stress: 20 consecutive parallel builds with DROP INDEX no panics, no stranded buffer pins, backend count back to baseline

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  • New Features

    • Added parallel HNSW index building when workers are available.
    • Added type-specific HNSW settings, including dimension limits, validation, and normalization.
    • Added vector L2 normalization during HNSW indexing and searching.
    • Improved handling of memory limits, duplicate values, graph flushing, and oversized index entries.
  • Documentation

    • Added guidance and a regression-test harness for validating pgvector compatibility.

jackwangfeng and others added 8 commits September 3, 2026 07:41
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- Remove PgError from file-scope imports; import it only in test module
- Move HnswTypeInfo block comment to correct location (was attached to HnswNormalizeFn)
- Add short one-line doc comments for the two type aliases

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…fault)

Add l2_normalize_image function to normalize vectors to unit L2 norm, handling
zero vectors correctly by leaving them unchanged. Add VECTOR_TYPE_INFO static
initialized with the default HnswTypeInfo for vector opclasses: max_dimensions
from types_hnsw, l2_normalize as the normalize function, and no check_value proc.

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…Info)

form_index_value / get_scan_value / max_dimensions now go through the
type info instead of the vector-only paths; no behaviour change for the
vector opclasses (no proc 3 -> VECTOR_TYPE_INFO).

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Make form_index_value_runs_check_value_before_norm_gate discriminating
by using the zero vector (norm == 0) instead of (3,4): under the
correct C order (checkValue before the norm gate) the checkValue error
must surface, whereas a swapped order would return Ok(None) first and
fail the assertion. Add a companion test proving the norm gate itself
still rejects the zero vector when type_info has no check_value (the
real vector-opclass default). Also drop the redundant
`use types_hnsw::HnswTypeInfo;` already covered by the pre-existing
`use types_hnsw::*;` glob in utils.rs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…d divergence notes

InitBuildState in C (hnswbuild.c) calls HnswGetTypeInfo, then the
dimensions/ef_construction checks, and only then HnswInitSupport (the
source of "missing support function 1 ..."). init_build_state called
init_support (which resolves type info internally) first, inverting
that error precedence; now it resolves type info directly for the
checks and defers init_support until after them.

get_type_info reinterpreted proc 3's Datum as a pointer with no null
check and a SAFETY comment that asserted trust rather than describing
C's actual (unchecked) contract; added a null check raising
ERRCODE_INTERNAL_ERROR and rewrote the comment to describe that
contract and its limits.

Recorded two more divergences in pgvector_hnsw's module doc: normalize
callbacks take no collation (unused by every shipped implementation),
and vacuum now also resolves/calls proc 3 via init_support since C's
hnswvacuum only calls HnswInitSupport.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Trivial cleanup: drop a double blank line in vec.rs, remove a redundant
HnswTypeInfo import and split double-statement/overlong lines in
insert.rs's type_info_tests, and annotate the norm/normalize .expect()
sites in insert.rs and scan.rs with why C would never hit them.

Also rewrites the regression harness README: it previously claimed
"all shipped features" for an argument-less run, but on this tree
halfvec/sparsevec and the btree/cast/copy paths that depend on them
aren't ported yet, so those upstream tests fail by design (they're the
acceptance criteria for the follow-up PRs) and a full run exits
non-zero. Documents the mktemp -d diff directory on FAIL and that this
harness runs the unmodified upstream suite, distinct from the trimmed
in-repo smoke tests under crates/contrib/pgvector/sql/.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change adds HNSW type metadata and callbacks, a shared concurrent graph, graph-page flushing, parallel HNSW builds, caller-provided index scans, seam registration, and an upstream pgvector regression harness.

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HNSW build implementation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Type information and callback integration
crates/_support/types/types_hnsw/src/lib.rs, crates/contrib/pgvector/src/vec.rs, crates/contrib/pgvector_hnsw/src/*
HNSW support resolves static type information. Insert and scan paths use type-specific validation, normalization, and dimension limits.
Caller-provided index scans
crates/backend/executor/execindexing/src/*, crates/backend/access/nbtree/nbtsort/src/pool.rs
Index scan APIs accept an optional caller-begun heap scan. Default calls preserve snapshot and range-scan behavior.
Shared graph and in-memory algorithms
crates/contrib/pgvector_hnsw_build/src/graph.rs, crates/contrib/pgvector_hnsw_build/src/algo.rs
The build uses a shared chunked graph with synchronized allocation, memory accounting, concurrent insertion, neighbor updates, duplicate handling, and graph invariant tests.
Graph page serialization
crates/contrib/pgvector_hnsw_build/src/flush.rs
The flush path writes metadata, element tuples, and neighbor tuples. It updates placements, handles page errors, and clears the graph after flushing.
Parallel build orchestration and wiring
crates/contrib/pgvector_hnsw_build/src/*, crates/_support/seams_init/*, crates/contrib/pgvector/test/*
The build selects workers, coordinates leader and worker scans, shares graph state, flushes results, registers the worker seam, and adds an upstream pgvector regression harness.

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Parallel HNSW index building adds concurrent graph construction and scanning, but invalid custom operator-class metadata may crash a backend and failed build callbacks may leave scan resources uncleared. These failure paths should be fixed before merge.

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  participant build_index
  participant build_graph
  participant parallel_build
  participant SharedGraph
  participant flush_pages
  build_index->>build_graph: start HNSW index build
  build_graph->>parallel_build: select workers and begin scan
  parallel_build->>SharedGraph: insert heap tuples
  parallel_build->>flush_pages: complete scan
  flush_pages->>SharedGraph: serialize graph and clear state
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In `@crates/backend/executor/execindexing/src/build_scan.rs`:
- Line 180: Update table_index_build_scan_with so HeapScanDescData is closed
with heapam::heap_endscan(scan) on every return path, including errors
propagated by ?. Preserve the original error while ensuring cleanup occurs
before propagation.

In `@crates/contrib/pgvector_hnsw/src/scan.rs`:
- Line 135: Update l2_normalize_image around the normalize call to validate the
input vector for infinite values before normalization, restoring rejection with
the existing “value out of range: overflow” error. Preserve the current output
validation and normal successful normalization behavior.

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- Line 92: Validate HNSW opclass support procedure 3 before get_type_info can
consume its result: whitelist only repository-owned static HnswTypeInfo
providers in hnswvalidate and the HNSW member-adjustment path, or reject
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…p output

Review follow-ups on the harness script:

- Discover tests with a glob into a bash array instead of word-splitting
  `ls` output (SC2046), and exit 2 with "no tests selected" when the
  selection is empty instead of printing "all selected tests passed"
  over zero tests.
- Create the output directory before installing the EXIT trap and remove
  it from the trap when every test passed; a failing run keeps it (the
  FAIL line names the diff), and -k keeps both it and the database.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds graph.rs with the thread-shared in-memory HNSW graph data
structures for the P3 parallel HNSW build: SharedGraph, SharedElement,
Candidate, NeighborArray, Placement, HeapTids. Mirrors pgvector 0.8.5's
HnswGraph/HnswElementData (hnsw.h), but replaces the C DSM area + per-
element LWLock with an Arc-slice behind a RwLock and per-field Mutexes,
since worker threads here are OS threads sharing one address space
rather than separate processes over shared memory.

lib.rs only gains the `pub(crate) mod graph;` declaration; the existing
Graph/MemElement types are untouched until Task 2 replaces them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…s entry/element lock protocol

Port hnswbuild.c's InsertTupleInMemory / UpdateGraphInMemory /
UpdateNeighborsInMemory / FindDuplicateInMemory and the in-memory arm of
hnswutils.c's HnswFindElementNeighbors / HnswSearchLayer / SelectNeighbors /
HnswUpdateConnection from the serial bump-arena Graph onto the thread-shared
SharedGraph, reproducing pgvector's lock protocol:

  entryWaitLock acquire+release  -> drop(lk(&graph.entry_wait_lock))
  entryLock LW_SHARED            -> graph.entry_lock.read()
  upgrade (level > ep->level)    -> drop read; entry_wait_lock; entry_lock.write(); drop wait
  e->lock LW_SHARED + memcpy     -> copy of neighbors[layer].items under the element mutex
  neighborElement->lock EXCL     -> neighbor's mutex held across update_connection
  dup->lock LW_EXCLUSIVE         -> dup's heaptids mutex in find_duplicate

Only one nesting exists (element mutex -> arena read lock, via elem()), and
alloc_element takes the arena write lock while holding no element lock, so the
order cannot cycle.

lib.rs keeps the serial build working on the new graph: BuildState.graph is an
Arc<SharedGraph>, insert_tuple allocates through alloc_element, and the flush
path reads elements through elem()/neighbors/placement. The flush head list is
taken once and shared by CreateGraphPages and WriteNeighborTuples.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- algo.rs update_neighbors: replace the mem::take + write-back pattern
  with two disjoint field borrows of the same NeighborArray, so a panic
  inside update_connection can never leave an empty neighbor list behind
  after poison recovery.
- graph.rs: record in DIVERGENCES that memory accounting now charges
  size_of::<SharedElement>() (vs the pre-refactor MemElement), so the
  flush point and the maintenance_work_mem notice's tuple count differ
  from both the pre-refactor Rust and from C.
- algo.rs four-thread test: make generated values distinct across
  threads and iterations (index-derived base value plus a sub-gap
  hash jitter) so the "entry point has max level" assertion cannot
  flake on a duplicate holding the strict max level.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move create_meta_page, build_append_page, serialize_element_tuple,
serialize_neighbor_tuple, page_add, create_graph_pages,
write_neighbor_tuples and flush_pages out of lib.rs into their own
flush.rs module. Behavior is unchanged except flush_pages now takes
graph.entry_wait_lock then graph.entry_lock for write (the same
upgrade dance insert_tuple_in_memory uses) before walking the graph,
holding the write lock through clear_after_flush(); the caller
(insert_tuple) never holds entry_lock when it calls flush_pages, so
this cannot deadlock. The flush_lock wrapper around the flush
decision itself is left for a later task.

Added a TDD-first test (flush::tests::
flush_serialization_matches_live_neighbor_state) that builds a
50-element 1-D graph through insert_tuple_in_memory, assigns synthetic
placements the way create_graph_pages would, and asserts the neighbor
tuple's valid (non-placeholder) entries equal the live
neighbors.lock()[0].items.len().

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…scan's scan argument)

Add a trailing Option<tableam::TableScanDesc> parameter down through
table_index_build_scan_with -> table_index_build_range_scan_with_xmin,
mirroring C's heapam_index_build_range_scan: a caller-supplied scan is
used as-is (no range restriction, asserted start_blockno == 0 &&
numblocks == InvalidBlockNumber), no fresh snapshot is registered
(need_unregister_snapshot stays false; the scan's own snapshot governs
visibility), and it is still ended via heap_endscan before returning.
table_index_build_scan and table_index_build_range_scan pass None,
reproducing prior behaviour exactly.

nbtsort's morsel_body, the only other caller of
table_index_build_range_scan_with_xmin in the workspace, is updated to
pass None for the new parameter.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Critical: table_index_build_scan_with was never added to lib.rs's
`pub use build_scan::{...}` list, so no other crate could actually call
it — the whole point of the task. Add it.

Minor: document the precondition that a caller-provided scan must be
tableam::TableScanDesc::Heap (a Pgrcolumnar scan panics), matching the
function's existing invariant-documentation style.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ports hnswbuild.c's parallel machinery (HnswBeginParallel,
HnswParallelBuildMain, HnswParallelScanAndInsert, ParallelHeapScan,
HnswEndParallel, ComputeParallelWorkers, BuildGraph) plus InsertTuple's
flushLock protocol.

* graph.rs: flush_lock becomes an RwLock — held SHARED across an in-memory
  insert and EXCLUSIVE around the flush decision, so no flush can start
  while a participant is inserting. memory_exhausted takes C's
  memoryMargin (1MB in a parallel build, 0 serial).
* parallel.rs: HnswShared (Arc-shared graph + parallel scan descriptor +
  the workersdonecv/nparticipantsdone counters), the leader's
  begin_parallel/parallel_heap_scan/end_parallel, the per-participant
  parallel_scan_and_insert, the HnswParallelBuildMain worker entry, and
  compute_parallel_workers over the planner's log3 worker arithmetic.
* lib.rs: insert_tuple follows C's flushLock protocol; build_graph drives
  the parallel or serial scan, flushes, then ends the parallel build (C's
  order); init_seams registers the worker entrypoint.

The leader's wait loop uses a bounded condvar wait that also drains
parallel messages and probes worker liveness, so a worker that ERRORs
surfaces its error instead of wedging the leader (C relies on a dying
worker process implicitly waking the ConditionVariable).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
SharedGraph::elem() took the `elems: RwLock<Vec<Arc<SharedElement>>>` read
lock and cloned/dropped an Arc on every call — two contended atomics per
lookup, O(ef_construction * m) lookups per insert, on cache lines every
participant touches (the entry point and other hubs above all). Task 5
measured the consequence: 2 workers bought 5-10% over serial where three
independent serial builds scale near-linearly on the same box.

Replace the arena with C's shape: an append-only chunked arena. A chunk
directory of `AtomicPtr<Chunk>` sized once in new() from memory_total,
1024 `MaybeUninit<SharedElement>` slots per chunk, a published `len:
AtomicU32`, and an `alloc_lock: Mutex<()>` taken only by alloc_element
(C serialises allocation under graph->allocatorLock too). alloc_element
writes the element into its slot and publishes `len` with Release;
elem(id) is an Acquire load of the chunk pointer plus an index and
returns `&SharedElement` — no lock, no refcount. Slots below len are
initialized, never moved (chunks are fixed-size blocks, the directory is
never resized) and never freed before Drop, which needs &mut self and so
cannot run under an outstanding borrow; Drop drops the initialized slots
and frees the chunks.

clear_after_flush now resets only the logical graph (length via a
`cleared` flag, head, entry point) and keeps the storage until the graph
is dropped — recorded as a DIVERGENCE from C's graphCtx reset, with the
memory consequence. memory_exhausted also reports exhaustion when the
directory runs out (only reachable above ~40GB maintenance_work_mem), so
the build flushes rather than overrunning the arena.

algo.rs call sites take &SharedElement and fetch each element once:
search_layer reads a neighbor's distance and level off one reference,
check_element_closer one lookup per r element per call. C's control flow
is otherwise unchanged.

Measured (100k x 128-dim, m=16, ef_construction=64,
maintenance_work_mem=64MB): serial 80.8s, 2 workers 28.0s, 4 workers
18.2s. On Task 5's 50k x 16-dim case, where Task 5 measured serial 9.45s
/ 2 workers 8.63s / 4 workers 8.68s: 7.15s / 2.47s / 1.52s.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* compute_parallel_workers: C's compute_parallel_worker takes the
  `rel_parallel_workers != -1` branch BEFORE the size gate, so a table
  with the parallel_workers reloption set builds in parallel even below
  min_parallel_table_scan_size. Restore that order (factored into
  workers_for_heap, with a unit test) and correct the DIVERGENCES header,
  which claimed the gate always applied.
* compute_parallel_workers: return 0 when the heap's table AM is not
  heap — this lane scans through table_index_build_scan_with, which is
  heap-only in pgrust, so a columnar heap would previously panic inside
  it. Recorded as a DIVERGENCE.
* parallel.rs module header: state the teardown contract — refusal paths
  unregister the snapshot, destroy the context and leave parallel mode;
  after a successful launch, errors rely on AtEOXact_Parallel /
  resource-owner cleanup, as C does via its longjmp to the abort path.
* build_graph: drop the dead `bs.memory_margin = PARALLEL_MEMORY_MARGIN`
  on the outer BuildState — the leader's inserts run through the
  participant BuildState that parallel_scan_and_insert builds.
* parallel_heap_scan: wait_timeout 20ms -> 100ms; the condvar notify is
  the real wake and the timeout is only the liveness safety net.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…arena

Whole-branch review follow-ups on the in-memory graph:

- graph.rs header: record that the memory budget is tested outside the
  allocator lock. C InsertTuple (hnswbuild.c:524-537) holds
  graph->allocatorLock EXCLUSIVE across the memoryUsed + memoryMargin >=
  memoryTotal test AND the element/value allocation, so the check is exact;
  here memory_exhausted() is a Relaxed load outside alloc_lock and
  memory_used.fetch_add runs before alloc_lock is taken, so the budget can
  be overshot by at most (participants x one element) -- far below the 1MB
  parallel margin -- and the re-check under flush_lock.write() keeps
  multi-participant exhaustion correct. One-line note at the fetch_add too.

- Capacity headroom. dir_len_for's .clamp(1, MAX_CHUNKS) can discard the
  two spare chunks, and memory_exhausted's old `len >= capacity` clause
  fired exactly at len == capacity while N racing participants could still
  reach alloc_element's assert!. memory_exhausted now treats
  len + CHUNK_SIZE > capacity as exhausted (a full chunk of headroom), and
  alloc_element's assert! becomes a debug_assert plus a graceful
  PgError::error("hnsw graph arena is full") -- signature is now
  PgResult<u32>, propagated in insert_tuple -- so even the >40GB regime
  degrades to the on-disk path instead of panicking a backend. New unit
  test drives both clauses to their boundary.

- elem(): the SAFETY argument lived only in the doc comment; state it on
  the unsafe block itself.

- Per-field docs for entry_lock / entry_wait_lock naming their C protocol
  (hnswbuild.c InsertTupleInMemory 453-470: wait-lock ping, shared entry
  lock, exclusive upgrade when the new element's level exceeds the entry
  point's).

- len() is a tests-only accessor (no progress reporting reads it).

- flush.rs module header: the flush_lock wrapper exists now, so state the
  actual contract -- flush_pages runs either under flush_lock.write() from
  insert_tuple or from build_graph/build_index with no other participant
  live, and its own entry_wait_lock + entry_lock.write() are a deliberate
  superset of C FlushPages (which takes no locks and relies on the caller's
  flushLock), leaving no caller-side entry-lock precondition.

- serialize_element_tuple / serialize_neighbor_tuple are private; the
  child test module still sees them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
table_index_build_scan_with's caller-provided-scan arm panicked when the
TableScanDesc was not a heap scan. Raise ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED
("table_index_build_scan_with: only heap scans are supported") instead --
a backend must not panic on a reachable-by-typing input -- and say so in
the doc comment rather than documenting a panic.

Also put the tableam dev-dependency back where it was; it is additionally
a real dependency now (build_scan matches on tableam::TableScanDesc in
non-test code), so the entry under [dependencies] stays and the move out
of [dev-dependencies] was diff noise.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@jackwangfeng
jackwangfeng force-pushed the pgvector/p3-parallel-build branch from ce9fbbb to c04f89c Compare September 6, 2026 12:03
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