[dajiaohuang]

Use PostgreSQL array comparison functions for the float4[] operators and their support comparator. This gives the operator class a consistent total ordering, including PostgreSQL array dimension and element ordering behavior, instead of the prior component-wise nd::all predicates.\n\nCloses #3249. Validation: source inspection and git diff --check; no tests/builds were run.

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  • Vector comparisons now produce consistent equality and ordering results based on PostgreSQL array semantics. Equality checks distinguish matching arrays from non-matching arrays, while ordering comparisons consistently place one value before or after another across the supported comparison operators. This makes query results more predictable when comparing vector values.

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The vector comparison functions now use PostgreSQL array operators directly. The ordering function checks equality first, then less-than, and returns the corresponding comparison result.

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Layer / File(s)	Summary
Direct array comparisons cpp/deeplake_pg/index_search.cpp	The six vector comparison functions now delegate to PostgreSQL array operators. deeplake_vector_compare returns 0 for equal arrays, -1 when the left array is less, and 1 otherwise.

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Change: Bug fix

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Vector comparisons and index operations can crash a PostgreSQL backend. Fix the function calls before merging.

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• observed — cpp (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in cpp/deeplake_pg/index_search.cpp: deeplake_vector_lt now uses PostgreSQL’s array_lt directly on its input arrays, replacing conversion to DeepLake arrays and the pg_index::vector_lt call inside pg_try.
• observed — Modified behavior in cpp/deeplake_pg/index_search.cpp: deeplake_vector_le now delegates comparison to PostgreSQL’s array_le instead of converting the inputs and calling pg_index::vector_le inside pg_try.
• observed — Modified behavior in cpp/deeplake_pg/index_search.cpp: deeplake_vector_eq now uses PostgreSQL’s array_eq directly, replacing the converted-array pg_index::vector_eq path inside pg_try.
• observed — Modified behavior in cpp/deeplake_pg/index_search.cpp: deeplake_vector_ne now uses PostgreSQL’s array_ne directly instead of calling pg_index::vector_ne on converted arrays inside pg_try.

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Review comments at @cpp/deeplake_pg/index_search.cpp:
- Around line 800-806: Update deeplake_vector_compare to call btarraycmp with
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[dajiaohuang]

Fixed in 337474b. All seven comparison wrappers now forward the original fcinfo to PostgreSQL's array comparison functions, including btarraycmp for ordering, preserving flinfo and its comparison cache.

Validation compiled the actual before/after wrapper bodies against PostgreSQL 18 headers and loaded them into an isolated PostgreSQL 18.6 backend. The original equality wrapper crashed that backend; the corrected wrappers passed 64 array-pair comparisons across all seven operators, including empty arrays, unequal lengths, NaN, null elements, lower bounds and dimensions. This validates the native wrappers; it is not a full DeepLake extension build or index integration test. git diff --check also passed.

[khustup2]

Not mergeable as designed. These seven functions are the comparator of our own access method: CREATE OPERATOR CLASS deeplake_vector_ops DEFAULT FOR TYPE float4[] USING deeplake_index … FUNCTION 1 deeplake_vector_compare. They are not a btree opclass, and the element-wise all() semantics (vector_eq = all(l == r)) are what deeplake_index expects. Forwarding to btarraycmp/array_eq changes what equality and ordering mean for that index, so the PR trades one contract for another rather than fixing a defect. Your isolated-backend crash on the equality wrapper is a separate claim about NULL elements in pg_to_nd; we will check that in our tree. Closing this one is fine.

[khustup2]

Follow-up on the crash claim: in the current source pg_to_nd_typed rejects arrays with NULL elements before any comparison runs (ARR_HASNULL → clean error inside pg_try), so the equality wrapper cannot read packed data as dense. The crash you reproduced is against the mirror's older conversion, not the current tree.

[dajiaohuang]

Closing per review feedback. The reviewer notes that deeplake_vector_ops is a custom index operator class with element-wise all() semantics, so forwarding to PostgreSQL array comparison functions changes its contract. The separate NULL-element crash claim needs current-version evidence and is not part of this PR.