Tune Bleve merge planning for full-text indexes - #397
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Summary
Why
Serial merge-task execution bounds a merge plan to one in-flight task at a time, but a single task can still stage a large amount of transient output. Bleve already supports these planner options; Antfly previously used bleve.New and bleve.Open, so it never supplied them.
The 256MiB value is a bound on the summed persisted input size used by Bleve when planning vector-bearing merge tasks. It is deliberately not described as a hard output-size cap because actual merge output may differ from the planner estimate.
Keeping these defaults in Antfly avoids changing Bleve library defaults for other consumers while still allowing per-index tuning as production data evolves.
Compatibility
Existing full-text configurations omit the new fields. Zero values normalize to 256MiB and 5, and explicit default values compare equal to omitted values, avoiding false configuration changes during metadata reconciliation.
Validation
Related incident: #381
Related Bleve serialization fix: antflydb/bleve#2