Don't iterate all indexes manually

index-scheduler/src/batch.rs

@@ -788,15 +788,15 @@ impl IndexScheduler {
                 dump_tasks.flush()?;
 
                 // 3. Dump the indexes
-                for (uid, index) in self.index_mapper.indexes(&rtxn)? {
+                self.index_mapper.try_for_each_index(&rtxn, |uid, index| -> Result<()> {
                     let rtxn = index.read_txn()?;
                     let metadata = IndexMetadata {
-                        uid: uid.clone(),
+                        uid: uid.to_owned(),
                         primary_key: index.primary_key(&rtxn)?.map(String::from),
                         created_at: index.created_at(&rtxn)?,
                         updated_at: index.updated_at(&rtxn)?,
                     };
-                    let mut index_dumper = dump.create_index(&uid, &metadata)?;
+                    let mut index_dumper = dump.create_index(uid, &metadata)?;
 
                     let fields_ids_map = index.fields_ids_map(&rtxn)?;
                     let all_fields: Vec<_> = fields_ids_map.iter().map(|(id, _)| id).collect();
@@ -809,9 +809,10 @@ impl IndexScheduler {
                     }
 
                     // 3.2. Dump the settings
-                    let settings = meilisearch_types::settings::settings(&index, &rtxn)?;
+                    let settings = meilisearch_types::settings::settings(index, &rtxn)?;
                     index_dumper.settings(&settings)?;
-                }
+                    Ok(())
+                })?;
 
                 let dump_uid = started_at.format(format_description!(
                     "[year repr:full][month repr:numerical][day padding:zero]-[hour padding:zero][minute padding:zero][second padding:zero][subsecond digits:3]"

index-scheduler/src/index_mapper.rs

@@ -682,18 +682,38 @@ impl IndexMapper {
         Ok(index)
     }
 
-    /// Return all indexes, may open them if they weren't already opened.
+    /// Attempts `f` for each index that exists in the index mapper.
-    pub fn indexes(&self, rtxn: &RoTxn) -> Result<Vec<(String, Index)>> {
+    ///
+    /// It is preferable to use this function rather than a loop that opens all indexes, as a way to avoid having all indexes opened,
+    /// which is unsupported in general.
+    ///
+    /// Since `f` is allowed to return a result, and `Index` is cloneable, it is still possible to wrongly build e.g. a vector of
+    /// all the indexes, but this function makes it harder and so less likely to do accidentally.
+    pub fn try_for_each_index<U, V>(
+        &self,
+        rtxn: &RoTxn,
+        mut f: impl FnMut(&str, &Index) -> Result<U>,
+    ) -> Result<V>
+    where
+        V: FromIterator<U>,
+    {
         self.index_mapping
             .iter(rtxn)?
-            .map(|ret| {
+            .map(|res| {
-                ret.map_err(Error::from).and_then(|(name, _)| {
+                res.map_err(Error::from)
-                    self.index(rtxn, name).map(|index| (name.to_string(), index))
+                    .and_then(|(name, _)| self.index(rtxn, name).and_then(|index| f(name, &index)))
-                })
             })
             .collect()
     }
 
+    /// Return the name of all indexes without opening them.
+    pub fn index_names(&self, rtxn: &RoTxn) -> Result<Vec<String>> {
+        self.index_mapping
+            .iter(rtxn)?
+            .map(|res| res.map_err(Error::from).map(|(name, _)| name.to_string()))
+            .collect()
+    }
+
     /// Swap two index names.
     pub fn swap(&self, wtxn: &mut RwTxn, lhs: &str, rhs: &str) -> Result<()> {
         let lhs_uuid = self

index-scheduler/src/insta_snapshot.rs

@@ -254,6 +254,6 @@ pub fn snapshot_canceled_by(
     snap
 }
 pub fn snapshot_index_mapper(rtxn: &RoTxn, mapper: &IndexMapper) -> String {
-    let names = mapper.indexes(rtxn).unwrap().into_iter().map(|(n, _)| n).collect::<Vec<_>>();
+    let names = mapper.index_names(rtxn).unwrap();
     format!("{names:?}")
 }

index-scheduler/src/lib.rs

@@ -541,15 +541,42 @@ impl IndexScheduler {
     ///
     /// * If the index wasn't opened before, the index will be opened.
     /// * If the index doesn't exist on disk, the `IndexNotFoundError` is thrown.
+    ///
+    /// ### Note
+    ///
+    /// As an `Index` requires a large swath of the virtual memory address space, correct usage of an `Index` does not
+    /// keep its handle for too long.
+    ///
+    /// Some configurations also can't reasonably open multiple indexes at once.
+    /// If you need to fetch information from or perform an action on all indexes,
+    /// see the `try_for_each_index` function.
     pub fn index(&self, name: &str) -> Result<Index> {
         let rtxn = self.env.read_txn()?;
         self.index_mapper.index(&rtxn, name)
     }
 
-    /// Return and open all the indexes.
+    /// Return the name of all indexes without opening them.
-    pub fn indexes(&self) -> Result<Vec<(String, Index)>> {
+    pub fn index_names(self) -> Result<Vec<String>> {
         let rtxn = self.env.read_txn()?;
-        self.index_mapper.indexes(&rtxn)
+        self.index_mapper.index_names(&rtxn)
+    }
+
+    /// Attempts `f` for each index that exists known to the index scheduler.
+    ///
+    /// It is preferable to use this function rather than a loop that opens all indexes, as a way to avoid having all indexes opened,
+    /// which is unsupported in general.
+    ///
+    /// Since `f` is allowed to return a result, and `Index` is cloneable, it is still possible to wrongly build e.g. a vector of
+    /// all the indexes, but this function makes it harder and so less likely to do accidentally.
+    ///
+    /// If many indexes exist, this operation can take time to complete (in the order of seconds for a 1000 of indexes) as it needs to open
+    /// all the indexes.
+    pub fn try_for_each_index<U, V>(&self, f: impl FnMut(&str, &Index) -> Result<U>) -> Result<V>
+    where
+        V: FromIterator<U>,
+    {
+        let rtxn = self.env.read_txn()?;
+        self.index_mapper.try_for_each_index(&rtxn, f)
     }
 
     /// Return the task ids matched by the given query from the index scheduler's point of view.

meilisearch/src/routes/indexes/mod.rs

@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ pub struct IndexView {
 
 impl IndexView {
     fn new(uid: String, index: &Index) -> Result<IndexView, milli::Error> {
+        // It is important that this function does not keep the Index handle or a clone of it, because
+        // `list_indexes` relies on this property to avoid opening all indexes at once.
         let rtxn = index.read_txn()?;
         Ok(IndexView {
             uid,
@@ -90,13 +92,15 @@ pub async fn list_indexes(
     paginate: AwebQueryParameter<ListIndexes, DeserrQueryParamError>,
 ) -> Result<HttpResponse, ResponseError> {
     let filters = index_scheduler.filters();
-    let indexes: Vec<_> = index_scheduler.indexes()?;
+    let indexes: Vec<Option<IndexView>> =
-    let indexes = indexes
+        index_scheduler.try_for_each_index(|uid, index| -> Result<Option<IndexView>, _> {
-        .into_iter()
+            if !filters.is_index_authorized(uid) {
-        .filter(|(name, _)| filters.is_index_authorized(name))
+                return Ok(None);
-        .map(|(name, index)| IndexView::new(name, &index))
+            }
-        .collect::<Result<Vec<_>, _>>()?;
+            Ok(Some(IndexView::new(uid.to_string(), index)?))
-
+        })?;
+    // Won't cause to open all indexes because IndexView doesn't keep the `Index` opened.
+    let indexes: Vec<IndexView> = indexes.into_iter().flatten().collect();
     let ret = paginate.as_pagination().auto_paginate_sized(indexes.into_iter());
 
     debug!("returns: {:?}", ret);

meilisearch/src/routes/mod.rs

@@ -261,9 +261,9 @@ pub fn create_all_stats(
     )?;
     // accumulate the size of each indexes
     let processing_index = processing_task.first().and_then(|task| task.index_uid());
-    for (name, index) in index_scheduler.indexes()? {
+    index_scheduler.try_for_each_index(|name, index| {
-        if !filters.is_index_authorized(&name) {
+        if !filters.is_index_authorized(name) {
-            continue;
+            return Ok(());
         }
 
         database_size += index.on_disk_size()?;
@@ -278,8 +278,9 @@ pub fn create_all_stats(
         let updated_at = index.updated_at(&rtxn)?;
         last_task = last_task.map_or(Some(updated_at), |last| Some(last.max(updated_at)));
 
-        indexes.insert(name, stats);
+        indexes.insert(name.to_string(), stats);
-    }
+        Ok(())
+    })?;
 
     database_size += index_scheduler.size()?;
     database_size += auth_controller.size()?;