Comments and docstrings across the branch narrated rejected
alternatives, consequences and history; each now states the current
contract. Renames test_a_legacy_uri_client_keeps_its_error to
test_an_unnamed_database_keeps_its_error. Documents the Sandbox
connection paths, the citation header's database segment, both
AmbiguousDatabaseError conditions on create_app, and run_inspector's
scope parameter. Doc paragraphs added by the branch in python.md,
storage.md and cli.md are one physical line each.
`resolve_document` and `find_document` selected a document through a listing,
then dropped its source and looked the id up across the set. Ids repeat between
copies of a database, so a title that matched in one could be answered by
another's document.
`get_document_by_id` and `get_chunk_by_id` join `get_picture_bytes` in taking an
optional `source`, and all three route it through `clients_covering`, so a name
the client does not cover raises `UnknownDatabaseError` rather than being
answered by the database it does cover. Without a source the reads are as they
were, answering from the first database in configured order that holds the id.
Four passages said every missing database raises `FileNotFoundError` and that
errors show locations. A database named in `lancedb.databases` raises
`SourceUnavailableError` instead, naming the database and not its location,
which is the point of naming them. A path you gave keeps `FileNotFoundError` and
still shows the path.
A name nothing covers raised `KeyError` in four places and
`AmbiguousDatabaseError` in a fifth, so a caller had to catch both and neither
name said what happened. `UnknownDatabaseError` is all of them, exported from
`haiku.rag.store` beside the other errors.
It subclasses `KeyError`, since selecting by name is a lookup, and prints its
message plainly rather than quoted as a missing key. Both CLIs turn it into the
same clean exit they already gave the others.
`close()` refused a client covering a set, which left one with no method to
call: `async with` was the only lifecycle it had. `aclose()` runs that teardown
for a caller that owns the client some other way, whatever it covers, and
nothing to release is not an error, so it is safe before entering and after
closing.
`close()` stays what it is, one connection and nothing else, and says so:
draining the background vacuum and releasing the embedder and reranker are
awaitable.
`create_mcp_server` promised one database and accepted a scope covering a set,
where the write tools exist and fail on use. It refuses that now.
Resolving is the public factory's job, as it is `HaikuRAG`'s: `_covering` takes
a scope someone already resolved, so the configured name survives without a
`DatabaseScope` reaching the public signature.
The test that a scope decides the database asserted `all(...)` over a search
that could return nothing, which held whatever the server read. It reads the
listing instead, so alpha's documents being present and beta's absent both have
to be true.
`sources` was ignored beside a database path, so `sources=["nope"]` opened the
path and read as though the selection had been honoured. A path and a name
already conflict inside `DatabaseScope.resolve`; this is the same rule where a
caller can reach it.
`reader_for` documented None as covering any database it could not place, but a
name outside the set raises `KeyError` like `clients_for` does: provenance
naming a database this client does not cover is wrong rather than absent. None
means one thing, a federated client given no name.
`sources=[]` means two things. On a search it selects nothing to search; on the
constructor it raises, since a client over no database can do nothing. Both are
written down now.
A capability reads through a lent client, so what a citation records is that
client's database and not the scope the capability was built with. Chat lends
one, and had no test saying so.
Restructure the storage page into search and provenance, duplicate ids,
ranking, Python operations and CLI commands, and state each in reference
voice. `Several Databases` becomes `Multiple Databases`, with the anchor
carried through every referrer, and the instruction files follow the same
name. Example databases are `papers`, `wiki` and `notes`.
`AmbiguousCitationError` is raised for a cited chunk id held by more than one
selected database, not for any shared id.
`HaikuRAG.__init__` said an omitted `db_path` uses `storage.data_dir`, which
is the last of three; and that `sources` is ignored for a single `uri`, where
it raises, since only `lancedb.databases` names databases.
The name is not the only identity leaving the configuration: results,
citations, model input and errors opening a named database carry it, while
`info`, `init` and `tag` print the location. `sources=[]` returns no search
results, but `ask` and `analyze` still answer, without evidence.
Trim the comments that still narrated a failure or an alternative to the
invariant they were there for.
Three groups, not two: `search`, `ask`, `analyze` and `chat` cover the set,
`settings`, `init-config` and `download-models` open no database, and every
other command works on one — or on a configured set of one, which is
unambiguous and keeps its name. A database named in `lancedb.databases` keeps
that name whether or not it is the only one covered; only `lancedb.uri` places
one without naming it.
Document ids repeat between copies of a database, where the sandbox refuses a
duplicate but the chat filter's `id IN (...)` matches the document in every
copy. `build_document_id_filter` claimed ids never widen a selection.
Document the facade: `covers_multiple`, `source_names`, `source`,
`reader_for`, `clients_for`, the lifetime of a borrowed client, and
`sources=None` against `sources=[]`.
Drop the vision callout from the README, which the features list already
covers.
lancedb.databases, the sources argument and the --database selector had no
documentation. Adds a Several Databases section to the storage
configuration page covering the name-to-location map, its mutual
exclusion with uri, the shared embedding configuration the set requires,
and which commands cover the set against which work on one. Adds a
Searching Several Databases section to the Python API page, --database to
the CLI's global options, the key to the sample configuration, and one
README feature line.
Context expansion is now automatic and structure-aware. For structured
documents, expands within the section containing the match. For sections
that exceed the budget or are too small, expands item-by-item outward
skipping noise labels. Unstructured documents use budget-based outward
expansion. Results sorted by relevance score.
