risingwavelabs/risingwave · error · SinkError
LanceDB error: {0}
Error message
LanceDB error: {0} What it means
A SinkError variant wrapping an anyhow::Error from the lancedb client. Raised when LanceDB operations (connecting to the database URI, creating/opening tables, writing rows) fail during sink processing.
Source
Thrown at src/connector/src/sink/mod.rs:1168
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#[backtrace]
anyhow::Error,
),
#[error("Doris/Starrocks connect error: {0}")]
DorisStarrocksConnect(
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#[backtrace]
anyhow::Error,
),
#[error("Doris error: {0}")]
Doris(String),
#[error("DeltaLake error: {0}")]
DeltaLake(
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#[backtrace]
anyhow::Error,
),
#[error("LanceDB error: {0}")]
LanceDb(
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#[backtrace]
anyhow::Error,
),
#[error("ElasticSearch/OpenSearch error: {0}")]
ElasticSearchOpenSearch(
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#[backtrace]
anyhow::Error,
),
#[error("Starrocks error: {0}")]
Starrocks(String),
#[error("File error: {0}")]
File(String),
#[error("Pulsar error: {0}")]
Pulsar(
#[source]View on GitHub (pinned to 6469eb736d)
Solutions
- Verify the LanceDB URI and storage options (credentials, region, endpoint).
- Confirm the target table exists or the sink has permission to create it.
- Check column names and types against the LanceDB table schema.
- Inspect the wrapped anyhow message for the underlying lancedb error.
Defensive patterns
Strategy: try-catch
Validate before calling
// verify URI + creds: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=... lancedb connect s3://bucket/db then list tables
Try / catch
if let SinkError::LanceDb(e) = err { log::error!("lancedb: {e:#}"); /* check URI/storage options, retry if transient */ } Prevention
- Validate the LanceDB URI scheme (s3://, gs://, file path) and storage options
- Ensure the table schema matches sink columns including vector dims
- Grant write permissions on the target database/table
When it happens
Trigger: Opening a LanceDB connection with a bad URI or missing credentials, table not found or incompatible, write/insert failure, unsupported column types.
Common situations: Wrong s3:// or local path in options, missing AWS credentials for S3-backed LanceDB, table schema drift, embedding/vector column type mismatches.
Related errors
- VECTOR is not supported for BigQuery sink.
- Don't support Vector
- vector is not supported yet
- (dataset guard acquisition error)
- Lance fragment write task stopped before accepting a record
AI-assisted analysis of risingwavelabs/risingwave@6469eb736d (2026-09-11).
Data as JSON: /api/errors/8250418412a21305.
Report an issue: GitHub.