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Previously, term-expansion queries were not scored — prefix (cat*), suffix
(*ing), fuzzy (%cat%), and tag prefix (@cat:{re*}) all contributed 0 to a
document's BM25STD score. This PR makes them produce real BM25STD scores on both
the in-iterator path (pure-text queries) and the extra-step path (combined
text + numeric/tag/negate queries), for text prefix/suffix/fuzzy and for
tag prefix.

Core contract

An expansion is scored on exactly one matched term/value's BM25 (its own IDF

  • its own F), never the sum over all matched terms — matching Redis's
    single-representative behavior (docs/redis_prefix_suffix_fuzzy_scoring.md).
    Which term wins is an unspecified, corpus-dependent union artifact, so the two
    code paths may pick different representatives on a doc matching several terms;
    both honor the one-term invariant. An explicit tag union ({red|blue}) still
    sums its members — only expansions pick one.

Changes by file

Text expansion scoring — in-iterator path

  • src/indexes/text/term.cc / term.hTermIterator gains a per_term_dt
    arg; in expansion mode it precomputes per_term_idf_ (one IDF per matched
    term) and GetScore() contributes a single matched term's BM25 instead of the
    summed-F exact/stem behavior.
  • src/indexes/text.ccPrefix/Suffix/Fuzzy BuildTextIterator collect
    each matched term's document frequency (GetKeyCount()) into per_term_dt.
  • src/indexes/text/fuzzy.hFuzzySearch::Search now returns an Expansion
    struct (key_iterators + per_term_dt + postings).
  • src/query/predicate.ccFuzzyPredicate::Evaluate adapted to the new
    Expansion API.

Text expansion scoring — extra-step path (combined queries)

  • src/query/search.ccResolvedLeaf gains expansion_terms (posting list
    • precomputed IDF per matched term). ResolveLeaves dynamic_casts
      Prefix/Suffix/Fuzzy predicates and resolves their expansion terms; ScoreNode
      contributes the first expansion term whose posting contains the key. Fixes
      combined queries like cat* @rank:[0 100] that previously scored expansions 0.

Tag prefix scoring

  • src/indexes/tag.h / tag.cc — new Tag::GetPrefixMatchedValues(prefix):
    walks the rax subtree (mirroring Tag::Search's prefix branch) and returns each
    matched value + its document count. The exact GetTagValueDocCount primitive
    stays exact — prefix values are no longer passed to it.
  • src/query/search.ccResolvedLeaf gains tag_prefix_groups (one group
    per foo* query value, holding each expansion value's IDF). ResolveLeaves
    (kTag) routes *-suffixed values to GetPrefixMatchedValues; exact values keep
    the existing summed path. ScoreNode (kTag) credits one matched value per
    prefix group, summed alongside exact values and other union members. F ≡ 1, as
    for exact tag values.

Not implemented (no scoring)

  • Tag suffix / infix (@cat:{*llo}, @cat:{*ll*}) — tag suffix/infix
    matching itself is unimplemented (tag.cc TODO b/357027854; no suffix trie
    for tags), so there is nothing to score. When that matching lands, such patterns
    will fall through to the exact GetTagValueDocCount branch and score 0 until the
    expansion routing here is extended.
  • Tag fuzzy (@cat:{%hello%}) — not supported by Redis either (syntax error
    on a tag field), so there is nothing to implement.
  • Text infix (*cat*) — InfixPredicate::BuildTextIterator/Evaluate still
    CHECK(false), so infix queries abort before scoring.

Tests

  • testing/search_test.cc — in-iterator + extra-step tests for text
    prefix/suffix/fuzzy (single-match == exact term; multi-match == one term, <
    sum), plus 3 tag-prefix tests (TagPrefixSingleMatchEqualsExactValue,
    TagPrefixMultiMatchScoresOneValueNotSum, TagPrefixInCombinedQueryScored).
  • integration/test_scoring.pyINDEX_PSF (text) and INDEX_TPX (tag) with
    WITHSUFFIXTRIE on idxMix. Group 15 covers text prefix/suffix/fuzzy; Group 16
    covers tag prefix (single-match == exact value; multi-match == one value and <
    the union {redis|redcap}; combined with numeric still scored). Tests assert
    self-consistent relationships against the suite's own exact scores rather than
    pinning Redis numbers on multi-match docs (the representative pick can diverge).

Notes

  • Document-frequency counts are clamped to total_docs to stay consistent with
    the transiently-out-of-sync counters (same pattern as ResolveLeaves).
  • A pure tag query sets kContainsTag, so tag prefix scoring flows through the
    extra-step ScoreTextQueryScoreNode path (verified), same as combined
    queries.

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The change adds BM25 scoring for prefix, suffix, fuzzy, and tag-prefix expansions. It carries per-term document frequencies, applies field-scoped lookups, resolves tag-prefix counts, and adds unit and integration coverage.

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Expansion scoring

Layer / File(s) Summary
Expansion data and iterator scoring
src/indexes/text/fuzzy.h, src/indexes/text/term.*, src/indexes/text.cc
Expansion results now include matched iterators, postings, and document frequencies. TermIterator computes per-term IDF and scores one matched term.
Field-scoped expansion resolution
src/query/search.cc, src/query/predicate.cc
Text expansion leaves now retain field masks and resolve prefix, suffix, and fuzzy matches.
Field and tag-prefix scoring
src/query/search.cc, src/indexes/text/posting.*, src/indexes/tag.*
Posting lookups honor field masks. Text expansions and tag prefixes contribute one matched BM25 term or tag value per document.
Expansion and field-scope validation
testing/search_test.cc, integration/test_scoring.py
Tests cover text expansions, tag prefixes, field-scoped terms, unions, numeric clauses, empty tags, and nested OR scoring.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Query
  participant ResolveLeaves
  participant ExpansionIndex
  participant ScoreNode
  Query->>ResolveLeaves: resolve text or tag-prefix expansion
  ResolveLeaves->>ExpansionIndex: collect matching terms and document counts
  ExpansionIndex-->>ResolveLeaves: return expansion data
  ResolveLeaves->>ScoreNode: pass field-scoped expansion terms
  ScoreNode-->>Query: return one matched BM25 contribution
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This change enables BM25 scoring for supported text expansions and tag-prefix queries. No concrete merge-blocking behavior or production impact is currently identified.

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In `@src/query/search.cc`:
- Around line 873-875: Update the tag-prefix handling in the query parsing flow
to normalize each prefix and deduplicate it with the existing seen-tracking
mechanism before appending to leaf.tag_prefixes. Preserve case-insensitive
behavior so equivalent spellings such as red* and RED* are scored only once,
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This change adds BM25STD scoring for text and tag expansions. Executable reproductions found two scoring correctness issues in src/query/search.cc: field-scoped text expansions can derive scoring data from a different text field, and case-insensitive tag-prefix unions can count the same logical prefix twice. These issues can inflate document scores and alter result ordering, so the change should not merge until both paths preserve the query’s matching semantics.

Confidence Score: 3/5

Not safe to merge because two reproduced BM25STD scoring paths can produce incorrect ranking.

Two independent, non-security scoring defects were reproduced with executable source-aware checks that exercised the affected control flow and compared it with the field-aware or normalized-deduplicated behavior.

Files Needing Attention: src/query/search.cc, especially expansion lookup at lines 964-969 and tag-prefix collection and scoring at lines 873-879 and 1045-1054.

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  • T-Rex captured a minimal field-scoped expansion reproduction source and logged the lookup and field-checking behavior to support the posted P1 finding.
  • T-Rex exercised the executable case-variant tag-prefix reproducer, observed two prefixes in the current-source model, and noted that deduplication collapsed to one prefix while Valkey runtime prerequisites were unavailable.
  • T-Rex produced a basic proof for the posted P1 finding, establishing the existence of the finding proof.
  • T-Rex performed general contract validation of the field-scoped expansion by running the before- and after-model checks and including an environment note explaining why a real Valkey module run could not be executed.
  • T-Rex validated the tag-prefix deduplication scenario, showing inflation before normalization and removal after normalization, and reported that in this environment no in-process Valkey request was available.

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  1. General comment

    P1 Combined-query expansion scoring ignores a field-scoped text predicate

    • Bug
      • At src/query/search.cc:964-969, ScoreNode loops expansion postings and uses term.postings->LookupKey(key) as sufficient evidence to score. For a field-scoped prefix/suffix/fuzzy predicate on the combined-query extra-scoring path, this admits a posting where the term occurs only in a different TEXT field. The executable reproduction demonstrates @body:al* @rank:[0 10] selecting title-only alpha for doc:1 (score 1.992430) instead of its body beta (score 1.481605), changing its BM25STD advantage and rank.
    • Cause
      • LookupKey returns TF and document length for a key but does not test the posting positions against the predicate's requested field mask. The iterator path carries and applies this constraint via KeyIterator::ContainsFields (src/indexes/text/posting.h:138-140); the extra-scoring expansion loop does not.
    • Fix
      • Retain the expansion predicate field mask in ResolvedLeaf (or obtain it from the concrete predicate) and, for each candidate key, verify that the matched posting contains the requested field before using its TF/IDF/doc_len. Apply the same guard to prefix, suffix, and fuzzy expansion branches, then add an integration test combining a scoped expansion with numeric/tag/negate filtering.

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    P1 Case-variant tag-prefix union is scored twice on case-insensitive indexes

    • Bug
      • For @color:{foo*|FOO*} on a case-insensitive TAG index, both spellings are pushed into leaf.tag_prefixes at src/query/search.cc:873-875. ScoreNode then iterates both entries at src/query/search.cc:1045-1054, and each resolves to the same normalized prefix match and adds its BM25STD leaf score. This inflates the matching document's score and can change result ordering versus an equivalent one-prefix query.
    • Cause
      • The continue in the prefix branch occurs before the existing normalization and seen-set deduplication at lines 877-879. Therefore, deduplication applies only to exact tag values, not prefix values.
    • Fix
      • For prefix values, normalize the prefix spelling according to tag_index->IsCaseSensitive() before inserting into a dedicated or shared seen set, then append only the first normalized prefix. Preserve the trailing * when constructing the dedupe key. Add a regression test comparing @color:{foo*|FOO*} to @color:{foo*} on a case-insensitive index and asserting equal scores/order.

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Looks mostly good to me, just a question on:

Line 874 records every prefix spelling without using seen. On a case-insensitive index, @cat:{red*|RED*} scores each matching value twice. Normalize and deduplicate prefix values before appending them to leaf.tag_prefixes, as exact tag values already do.

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…ify tag prefix matching

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In `@src/indexes/text.cc`:
- Line 255: Update PrefixPredicate::BuildTextIterator at
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Hi @boda26 👋 — flagging this as a P1 launch blocker for valkey-search 1.3 RC1. We're cutting the release branch the morning of Sept 14 (RC1 lands Sept 15), so all P1s need to be merged before then.

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