diff --git a/rust/lance-index/src/scalar/inverted/builder.rs b/rust/lance-index/src/scalar/inverted/builder.rs
index 6b99e7c917..2065a093e0 100644
--- a/rust/lance-index/src/scalar/inverted/builder.rs
+++ b/rust/lance-index/src/scalar/inverted/builder.rs
@@ -285,8 +285,7 @@ impl InvertedIndexBuilder {
                     Result::Ok((batch, max_score))
                 }
             });
-            let mut stream =
-                stream::iter(batches).buffer_unordered(get_num_compute_intensive_cpus());
+            let mut stream = stream::iter(batches).buffered(get_num_compute_intensive_cpus());
             let mut offsets = Vec::new();
             let mut max_scores = Vec::new();
             let mut num_rows = 0;
diff --git a/rust/lance/src/index.rs b/rust/lance/src/index.rs
index 76a9268720..7ac0b115d0 100644
--- a/rust/lance/src/index.rs
+++ b/rust/lance/src/index.rs
@@ -945,6 +945,7 @@ impl DatasetIndexInternalExt for Dataset {
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use crate::dataset::builder::DatasetBuilder;
+    use crate::dataset::optimize::{compact_files, CompactionOptions};
     use crate::utils::test::{DatagenExt, FragmentCount, FragmentRowCount};
 
     use super::*;
@@ -1556,6 +1557,32 @@ mod tests {
 
             assert_eq!(texts.len(), 1, "query: {}, texts: {:?}", word, texts);
             assert_eq!(texts[0], word, "query: {}, texts: {:?}", word, texts);
+
+            // we should be able to query the new words after compaction
+            compact_files(&mut dataset, CompactionOptions::default(), None)
+                .await
+                .unwrap();
+            for &word in uppercase_words.iter() {
+                let query_result = dataset
+                    .scan()
+                    .project(&["text"])
+                    .unwrap()
+                    .full_text_search(FullTextSearchQuery::new(word.to_string()))
+                    .unwrap()
+                    .try_into_batch()
+                    .await
+                    .unwrap();
+                let texts = query_result["text"]
+                    .as_string::<i32>()
+                    .iter()
+                    .map(|v| match v {
+                        None => "".to_string(),
+                        Some(v) => v.to_string(),
+                    })
+                    .collect::<Vec<String>>();
+                assert_eq!(texts.len(), 1, "query: {}, texts: {:?}", word, texts);
+                assert_eq!(texts[0], word, "query: {}, texts: {:?}", word, texts);
+            }
         }
     }