fix(search): limit description for search (#18443)

miketheman · web-flow · commit 94604df932c4 · 2025-07-29T13:35:43.000-04:00
If a release description is larger than the transport size, the indexing
will fail, as it cannot pass more than a single 10MB request.

Fixes WAREHOUSE-PRODUCTION-29W

Signed-off-by: Mike Fiedler &lt;miketheman@gmail.com&gt;
diff --git a/warehouse/search/tasks.py b/warehouse/search/tasks.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ def _project_docs(db, project_name: str | None = None):
     )
     projects_to_index = (
         select(
-            Description.raw.label("description"),
+            func.left(Description.raw, 5_000_000).label("description"),
             Release.author,
             Release.author_email,
             Release.maintainer,

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ def _project_docs(db, project_name: str \| None = None):`
`40`	`40`	`)`
`41`	`41`	`projects_to_index = (`
`42`	`42`	`select(`
`43`		`- Description.raw.label("description"),`
	`43`	`+ func.left(Description.raw, 5_000_000).label("description"),`
`44`	`44`	`Release.author,`
`45`	`45`	`Release.author_email,`
`46`	`46`	`Release.maintainer,`