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Problem

A query is in exactly one of three states: it wants nothing from the database, a named list of fields, or the whole record.

For an aggregation command like:

FT.AGGREGATE .... LOAD * SORTBY 1 @field

For HASH indexes, each output record contains the key name and each of the hash members.

For JSON indexes, it's different. Each output record will contain three fields: the key, field and $. Where $ is the serialized JSON object behind that key.

SearchParameters carried only no_content plus an attribute list, so the whole-record state had to be spelled as "the list is empty". That left no way to express the whole record and a named list.

That combination is exactly what a JSON index needs. LOAD * fetches the root document under $, which satisfies no @field reference, so a pipeline stage naming a field saw a Nil:

  • GROUPBY 1 @t1 put every document into a single null-keyed group
  • REDUCE SUM 1 @n1 summed nothing
  • SORTBY 2 @n1 ASC did not sort

#919 fixed this for HASH, where the whole record arrives keyed by field name. JSON was left out because the two requests could not coexist.

Fix

Add all_content, so each state has a positive representation:

all_content return_attributes fetched
false empty nothing (NOCONTENT, RETURN 0, LOAD 0)
false list just that list
true empty the whole record (LOAD *, no RETURN)
true list the whole record and that list

The flag means the whole record, not the JSON root, because both key types need it. A whole-record fetch is spelled differently per type: a HASH asks for no identifier in particular and the scan keeps every field, while JSON must name $. That spelling is derived at the fetch site from the key type.

Naming the flag for JSON would have regressed HASH. Once ManipulateReturnsClause stops short-circuiting, the implicit loads populate return_attributes under LOAD *, and on HASH a non-empty list turns the fetch from every field into only those.

Consequences

  • GetContentNoReturnJson is gone. One fetch path serves both key types.
  • MaybeAddIndexedContent declines when all_content is set. It serves named attributes straight from the indexes and populates the neighbor's contents, which makes the main-thread fetch skip that neighbor. With implicit loads now naming attributes under LOAD *, the root document would never have been read.
  • NOCONTENT on a JSON index no longer reads the root document off the key and discards it. It could not be told apart from a whole-record request before, since both spelled themselves as an empty list.
  • SearchIndexPartitionRequest gains all_content (field 21) and still writes no_content. A request from a sender that predates the field is read back through the old encoding, so a mixed-version fanout does not turn LOAD * into a fetch of nothing.

Compatibility cases

generate.py gains test_aggregate_loadall_stage and test_aggregate_loadall_two_stages, covering LOAD * followed by each of the five stages CreateAggregateParser builds, plus three two-stage pipelines.

The GROUPBY, SORTBY and LIMIT cases are the ones that measure. Redisearch auto-loads for SORTBY and GROUPBY/REDUCE but not for APPLY or FILTER, which error with Property `n1` not loaded nor in pipeline whether or not LOAD * is present. compare_results passes unconditionally when the reference engine raised, so those cases pin reference behavior rather than measuring ours. The docstrings say which is which.

Before this change the same compatibility run failed ten answers, all in the two new methods on JSON: valkey returned $ alone where Redis returned the named column plus $, and collapsed GROUPBY to a single null-keyed group.

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The change adds explicit whole-record request tracking for FT.AGGREGATE LOAD * and bare FT.SEARCH. It propagates this state through coordinator requests, fetches complete HASH or JSON content, updates response shaping, and adds pipeline compatibility coverage.

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Whole-record loading

Layer / File(s) Summary
Whole-record request contract
src/query/search.h, src/commands/ft_search_parser.cc, src/commands/ft_aggregate.cc
Adds SearchParameters::all_content. FT.SEARCH and LOAD * set the flag while preserving normal field-loading behavior.
Coordinator propagation
src/coordinator/coordinator.proto, src/coordinator/search_converter.cc
Carries all_content through partition requests and derives the value for older senders.
Record fetching and response shaping
src/query/search.cc, src/query/response_generator.cc
Fetches complete HASH records or the JSON root document instead of reconstructing whole content from indexed attributes.
Pipeline and response validation
integration/compatibility/generate.py, testing/query/response_generator_test.cc
Adds single-stage and two-stage LOAD * pipeline tests and updates response-generator fixtures for explicit whole-record semantics.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant FT_AGGREGATE
  participant Coordinator
  participant SearchExecutor
  participant RecordStore
  Client->>FT_AGGREGATE: Submit LOAD * pipeline
  FT_AGGREGATE->>Coordinator: Send all_content request
  Coordinator->>SearchExecutor: Forward partition request
  SearchExecutor->>RecordStore: Fetch complete HASH or JSON content
  RecordStore-->>SearchExecutor: Return record content
  SearchExecutor-->>Client: Return pipeline results
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Change: Bug fix

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Whole-record loading remains distinct from NOCONTENT and named-field requests across HASH and JSON paths, with compatibility coverage for aggregate pipelines. No merge-blocking risk remains.

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Comment thread src/coordinator/coordinator.proto
@allenss-amazon allenss-amazon changed the title Ask for content with all_content, not by leaving the list empty LOAD * plus autoloaded Aggregation fields generates incompatible JSON result. Sep 11, 2026
A query is in exactly one of three states: it wants nothing from the
database, a named list of fields, or the whole record. `SearchParameters`
carried only `no_content` plus an attribute list, so the whole-record state
had to be spelled as "the list is empty" -- which left no way to express the
whole record *and* a named list.

That combination is what a JSON index needs. `LOAD *` fetches the root
document under `$`, which satisfies no `@field` reference, so a pipeline
stage naming `@n1` saw a Nil: `GROUPBY 1 @t1` put every document into a
single null-keyed group and `REDUCE SUM 1 @n1` summed nothing. valkey-io#919 fixed
this for HASH, where the whole record arrives keyed by field name; JSON was
left out because the two requests could not coexist.

Add `all_content`, so each of the states has a positive representation:

  all_content  return_attributes   fetched
  -----------  -----------------   ----------------------------------------
  false        empty               nothing   (NOCONTENT, RETURN 0, LOAD 0)
  false        list                just that list
  true         empty               the whole record   (LOAD *, no RETURN)
  true         list                the whole record *and* that list

The flag says "the whole record", not "the JSON root", because both key
types need it. A whole-record fetch is spelled differently per type -- a
HASH asks for no identifier in particular and the scan keeps every field,
while JSON must name `$` -- and that spelling is derived at the fetch site
from the key type. Naming the flag for JSON would have regressed HASH:
once `ManipulateReturnsClause` stops short-circuiting, the implicit loads
populate `return_attributes` under `LOAD *`, and on HASH a non-empty list
turns the fetch from every field into only those.

Consequences:

  * `GetContentNoReturnJson` is gone. One fetch path serves both key types:
    a whole-hash request asks for no identifier in particular, everything
    else asks for the identifiers it wants -- `$` among them when the whole
    JSON record was requested.

  * `MaybeAddIndexedContent` declines when `all_content` is set. It serves
    named attributes straight from the indexes and populates the neighbor's
    contents, which makes the main-thread fetch skip that neighbor; with
    implicit loads now naming attributes under `LOAD *`, the root document
    would never have been read.

  * NOCONTENT on a JSON index no longer reads the root document off the key
    and discards it. It could not be told apart from a whole-record request
    before, since both spelled themselves as an empty list.

  * `SearchIndexPartitionRequest` gains `all_content` (field 21) and still
    writes `no_content`. A request from a sender that predates the field is
    read back through the old encoding, so a mixed-version fanout does not
    turn `LOAD *` into a fetch of nothing.

Compatibility cases: generate.py gains test_aggregate_loadall_stage and
test_aggregate_loadall_two_stages, covering `LOAD *` followed by each of the
five stages that CreateAggregateParser builds, plus three two-stage
pipelines. The GROUPBY, SORTBY and LIMIT cases are the ones that measure.
Redisearch auto-loads for SORTBY and GROUPBY/REDUCE but not for APPLY or
FILTER, which error with "Property `n1` not loaded nor in pipeline" whether
or not `LOAD *` is present; `compare_results` passes unconditionally when
the reference engine raised, so those cases pin reference behavior rather
than measuring ours. The docstrings say which is which.

Verified: 13/13 unit test suites, the full integration suite (581 passed, 8
skipped, 0 failed), and the compatibility suite including the cluster
variant that exercises the new proto field. Before this change the same
compatibility run failed ten answers, all in the two new methods on JSON.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011FdgudU2awGuciwaf7dxMF
Signed-off-by: Allen Samuels <allenss@amazon.com>
… pickles

Upstream valkey-io#1364 added `generate_sortkey.py` and changed `__init__.py` and
`data_sets.py`. The compatibility sources hash covers every .py file in
`integration/compatibility/`, so that change invalidates every pickle in the
directory -- including the three this branch had already regenerated for the
new `LOAD *` cases. Both sides therefore rewrote the same three answer files
and git reported a binary conflict on each.

The conflict is not resolvable by picking a side: whichever side wins, the
hash of the merged sources matches neither. All four pickles are regenerated
here instead, which is the only resolution that produces a valid hash, and
`sortkey-answers.pickle.gz` arrives from upstream and is regenerated with
them.

Only the three pickles conflicted; every source file merged cleanly, and
both `test_aggregate_loadall_stage` and `test_aggregate_loadall_two_stages`
survive intact.

Verified on the merge result: 13/13 unit test suites, all five
compatibility suites including the new sortkey one and the cluster variant,
and the full integration suite (585 passed, 8 skipped, 0 failed). These now
run under the parallel test runner that arrived from upstream in the same
merge.

Signed-off-by: Allen Samuels <allenss@amazon.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011FdgudU2awGuciwaf7dxMF
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This change separates whole-record retrieval from named-field retrieval, propagates all-content requests through local and coordinator paths, and adds compatibility coverage for LOAD * aggregation behavior.

Confidence Score: 5/5

Safe to merge.

No outstanding issues remain. allenss-amazon stated that cross-version gRPC search compatibility is not required, and greptile-apps[bot] withdrew the related concern.

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allenss-amazon and others added 3 commits September 11, 2026 18:43
… pickles

Upstream valkey-io#1366 moved the compatibility reference engine from
redis/redis-stack-server to redis:latest and registered generate_expr.py,
and valkey-io#1373 changed generate.py. The sources hash covers every .py file in
integration/compatibility/, so both sides had rewritten the same answer
files and git reported a binary conflict on four of them. No side of that
conflict carries a valid hash for the merged sources, so all five pickles
are regenerated here against redis:latest (8.10.1).

The new reference engine also exposed a spelling problem in two of this
branch's cases. Redis 8.10 lexes `+1` as a signed literal, so `@n1+1` is a
syntax error there. That turned the GROUPBY-then-APPLY case, which is meant
to measure, into a reference-side error that compare_results passes
unconditionally. Both cases are rewritten as `1+@x`; valkey-search accepts
either spelling. With that change the reference answers again match what
the docstrings claim: APPLY and FILTER over a stored field still error with
"Property not loaded nor in pipeline", and GROUPBY-then-APPLY returns rows.

Other `@x+N` expressions elsewhere in generate.py now record syntax errors
against the new reference too. Those predate this branch and are left alone.

Only the pickles conflicted; every source file merged cleanly.

Verified on the merge result: 13/13 unit test suites and the full
integration suite, 586 passed, 8 skipped, 0 failed, including all five
compatibility suites. One earlier full run hit a timeout in
test_ft_search_partition_controls, which deliberately forces timeouts; it
passed three isolated reruns and the subsequent full run.

Signed-off-by: Allen Samuels <allenss@amazon.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011FdgudU2awGuciwaf7dxMF
…them

Upstream valkey-io#984 added generate_filter.py, so the compatibility sources hash
changed again and five answer files conflicted. All six pickles are
regenerated against redis:latest (8.10.1).

Redis 8.10 lexes `+N` as a signed numeric literal, so an APPLY written
`@x+1` is a syntax error on the reference engine. compare_results passes any
case where the reference raised, so eight APPLY cases in generate.py had
stopped comparing anything since the reference moved to redis:latest. They
are rewritten as `N+@x`, which both engines accept and which means the
same thing:

  apply @n1+1 as computed      ->  apply 1+@n1 as computed
  apply @n1+1 as n1            ->  apply 1+@n1 as n1
  apply @n2+100 as r           ->  apply 100+@n2 as r
  apply @A+1 as b              ->  apply 1+@A as b
  apply @x+1 as y              ->  apply 1+@x as y
  apply @ToTal+1 as bumped     ->  apply 1+@ToTal as bumped
  apply @n1+10 as bumped ...   ->  apply 10+@n1 as bumped ...   (x2)

Before the rewrite every one of them recorded a reference-side exception on
both key types; after it every one records rows. They are now compared, and
valkey-search matches on all of them. generate_expr.py builds its dyadic
expressions as `(l)op(r)`, so it never produces the hazard and is unchanged.

Only the pickles conflicted; every source file merged cleanly.

Verified on the merge result: 13/13 unit test suites and the full
integration suite, 611 passed, 8 skipped, 0 failed, including all six
compatibility suites.

Signed-off-by: Allen Samuels <allenss@amazon.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011FdgudU2awGuciwaf7dxMF
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