feast-dev · franciscojavierarceo · Nov 11, 2025 · Oct 15, 2025 · Oct 29, 2025 · Nov 4, 2025
@@ -21,20 +21,40 @@ def create_offline_store_retrieval_job(
         context:
         start_time:
         end_time:
-
     Returns:
 
     """
     offline_store = context.offline_store
-    # 📥 Reuse Feast's robust query resolver
-    retrieval_job = offline_store.pull_all_from_table_or_query(
-        config=context.repo_config,
-        data_source=data_source,
-        join_key_columns=column_info.join_keys,
-        feature_name_columns=column_info.feature_cols,
-        timestamp_field=column_info.ts_col,
-        created_timestamp_column=column_info.created_ts_col,
-        start_date=start_time,
-        end_date=end_time,
-    )
+
+    pull_latest = context.repo_config.materialization_config.pull_latest_features
+
+    if pull_latest:
+        if not start_time or not end_time:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "start_time and end_time must be provided when pull_latest_features is True"
+            )
+
+        retrieval_job = offline_store.pull_latest_from_table_or_query(
+            config=context.repo_config,
+            data_source=data_source,
+            join_key_columns=column_info.join_keys,
+            feature_name_columns=column_info.feature_cols,
+            timestamp_field=column_info.ts_col,
+            created_timestamp_column=column_info.created_ts_col,
+            start_date=start_time,
+            end_date=end_time,
+        )
+    else:
+        # 📥 Reuse Feast's robust query resolver
+        retrieval_job = offline_store.pull_all_from_table_or_query(
+            config=context.repo_config,
+            data_source=data_source,
+            join_key_columns=column_info.join_keys,
+            feature_name_columns=column_info.feature_cols,
+            timestamp_field=column_info.ts_col,
+            created_timestamp_column=column_info.created_ts_col,
+            start_date=start_time,
+            end_date=end_time,
+        )
+
     return retrieval_job
@@ -182,6 +182,14 @@ def validate_path(cls, path: str, values: ValidationInfo) -> str:
         return path
 
 
+class MaterializationConfig(BaseModel):
+    """Configuration options for feature materialization behavior."""
+
+    pull_latest_features: StrictBool = False
+    """ bool: If true, feature retrieval jobs will only pull the latest feature values for each entity.
+        If false, feature retrieval jobs will pull all feature values within the specified time range. """
+
+
 class RepoConfig(FeastBaseModel):
     """Repo config. Typically loaded from `feature_store.yaml`"""
 
@@ -239,6 +247,11 @@ class RepoConfig(FeastBaseModel):
     coerce_tz_aware: Optional[bool] = True
     """ If True, coerces entity_df timestamp columns to be timezone aware (to UTC by default). """
 
+    materialization_config: MaterializationConfig = Field(
+        MaterializationConfig(), alias="materialization"
+    )
+    """ MaterializationConfig: Configuration options for feature materialization behavior. """
+
     def __init__(self, **data: Any):
         super().__init__(**data)
 

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 from feast.permissions.auth_model import OidcClientAuthConfig
 from feast.permissions.permission import Permission
 from feast.permissions.policy import RoleBasedPolicy
-from feast.repo_config import RegistryConfig, RepoConfig
+from feast.repo_config import MaterializationConfig, RegistryConfig, RepoConfig
 from feast.utils import _utc_now
 from tests.integration.feature_repos.integration_test_repo_config import (
     IntegrationTestRepoConfig,
@@ -423,6 +423,9 @@ class Environment:
     entity_key_serialization_version: int
     repo_dir_name: str
     fixture_request: Optional[pytest.FixtureRequest] = None
+    materialization: MaterializationConfig = dataclasses.field(
+        default_factory=lambda: MaterializationConfig()
+    )
 
     def __post_init__(self):
         self.end_date = _utc_now().replace(microsecond=0, second=0, minute=0)
@@ -443,6 +446,7 @@ def setup(self):
             repo_path=self.repo_dir_name,
             feature_server=self.feature_server,
             entity_key_serialization_version=self.entity_key_serialization_version,
+            materialization_config=self.materialization,
         )
 
         self.feature_store = FeatureStore(config=self.config)

@@ -219,7 +219,12 @@ def odfv_multi(df: pd.DataFrame) -> pd.DataFrame:
 
 @pytest.mark.integration
 @pytest.mark.universal_offline_stores
-def test_universal_materialization_consistency(environment):
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("materialization_pull_latest", [True, False])
+def test_universal_materialization_consistency(
+    environment, materialization_pull_latest
+):
+    environment.materialization.pull_latest_features = materialization_pull_latest
+
     fs = environment.feature_store
     df = create_basic_driver_dataset()
     ds = environment.data_source_creator.create_data_source(