Expected Behavior

After running feast apply to register a new project and its features, the Feast UI should display the new project and allow searching/browsing its features.

Current Behavior

When using a SQL-based registry (e.g., SQLite), feast apply successfully creates the project and persists all feature metadata to the database. However, the Feast UI cannot discover the newly created project — searching by the project name returns no results, and the project does not appear in the project list.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Initialize a Feast project: feast init -t local
2. Configure feature_store.yaml to use a SQL registry:

   registry:
     registry_type: sql
     path: sqlite:///data/registry_sqlite.db
   

3. Define features under project picked_elk in feature_definitions.py
4. Run feast apply — project picked_elk and all features are created successfully
5. Start Feast UI: feast ui — project picked_elk is visible ✅
6. Modify feature_definitions.py to change the project name to picked_elk2
7. Run feast apply again — project picked_elk2 is created successfully, DB tables are created

• Version: Feast 0.62.0
• Platform: Windows (also likely affects Linux/macOS)
• Subsystem: Feast UI + SQL Registry integration