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1879-1884: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winQuote the chunk table name in the dimension probe, as
update_embedding()now does.
chunk_tables[idx0]is interpolated raw into'%s'::regclass. Per the comment added at Lines 2250-2253, the generated chunk table name for a schema-qualified source is a single identifier that contains a dot.regclassparses that text asschema.table, so the lookup fails andSPI_execute()raises, which aborts the batch before any item is charged. Line 2259 already repairs the same defect inupdate_embedding().🐛 Proposed fix
ret_dim = SPI_execute(psprintf( "SELECT atttypmod FROM pg_attribute " - "WHERE attrelid = '%s'::regclass " + "WHERE attrelid = %s::regclass " "AND attname = 'embedding'", - chunk_tables[idx0]), + quote_literal_cstr(quote_identifier(chunk_tables[idx0]))), true, 1);🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@sql/pgedge_vectorizer--1.2.sql`:
- Around line 727-734: Normalize empty provider and model values with NULLIF
before COALESCE in both old and new effective-setting calculations in both SQL
definitions, including the corresponding set_embedding_model implementations.
Ensure the normalized effective provider and model values are used for
comparisons and passed to detect_embedding_dimension(), preserving GUC
inheritance for empty strings.
- Line 1827: Update both hybrid_search() definitions to resolve provider and
model alongside chunk_table in each lookup branch, preserving NULL values for
GUC inheritance, then pass these values to generate_embedding(p_query,
v_provider, v_model). Apply the same change in the 1.1-to-1.2 migration so it
redefines hybrid_search() consistently.
In `@src/embed.c`:
- Around line 50-55: Update resolve_model to validate pgedge_vectorizer.model
before returning it, rejecting both NULL and empty values with a local
configuration error; otherwise return the configured model or existing default
so provider_build_openai_request never receives an invalid model.
In `@src/worker.c`:
- Around line 1657-1658: Add a uniqueness constraint or unique index for
vectorizers.chunk_table, after resolving any existing duplicate values, so the
worker’s join in the queue-processing query cannot produce duplicate rows or
repeated embedding and bm25_update_idf_stats() calls.
- Around line 1846-1854: Update process_queue_batch so failures from
get_embedding_provider or provider->init use the existing per-request failure
path instead of raising immediately. Record failure for every item in the
request’s batch_count, mark it non-rate-limited, clear or update
failed_item_queue_id consistently, and continue processing the next request so
unrelated providers remain pending.
- Around line 2120-2126: Update process_queue_batch() and the file-static
provider_cooldown_until state to maintain separate cooldown deadlines per
resolved provider instead of one global deadline. When filtering or selecting
queue items, apply only that item’s provider cooldown; preserve unblocked
providers’ access and ensure a 429 updates only the provider that received it.
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In `@src/worker.c`:
- Around line 1879-1884: Update the dimension probe’s SQL in the SPI_execute
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hybrid_search() embedded the query with the GUCs, which was right whilst that was the only place a model could come from. Since a vectorizer can pin its own, a query embedded by one model was being compared against chunks embedded by another: meaningless distances where the widths match, and an outright error where they do not, which is the failure this whole line of work exists to prevent, arriving through the search path instead. It now looks the provider and model up alongside the chunk table and passes them through, NULL and all, so a vectorizer that has pinned nothing behaves as before. The 1.1 script never redefined the function, so the upgrade carries a full replacement. The worker's join to the registry could match a queue row twice, because only (source_table, source_column) is unique and two vectorizers can be pointed at one chunk table with an explicit chunk_table_name. The item would then be embedded twice and counted twice into the BM25 corpus statistics. A LATERAL with LIMIT 1 makes the join return one row whatever the registry holds; a unique constraint on chunk_table would be the stronger fix but needs a story for installations that already have duplicates, which is separate work. set_embedding_model() compared raw stored values where the worker, embedding_model_status() and reembed() all treat an empty string as inherit, so an empty override would have been seen as a change by one of the four and not by the other three, and would have reached the dimension probe as a model name of ''. NULLIF everywhere, and the probe now asks about the effective values. resolve_model() returned an unset model GUC unvalidated, where resolve_provider() already refuses one. The providers interpolate it straight into their request bodies, so an empty setting put "model":"" on the wire and a NULL one would have been dereferenced whilst escaping it. One finding declined. CodeRabbit proposed charging a provider that cannot be resolved to the items of its request, so that the rest of the pull proceeds. The observation behind it is right, and is now issue #78: since a vectorizer can name its own provider, one bad name stops every other vectorizer in the database. The prescription is not, because 005_batch_failure_backoff.pl exists to prevent exactly that and injects exactly this fault: charging a blameless item for a misconfigured provider works through the queue retiring one innocent row per max_attempts cycles, so a single mistyped provider name would mark the whole queue failed. Fixing it properly means skipping the group without charging it whilst still reaching the batch backoff, which needs a way to report a batch-level fault without an exception. That is more than this change should carry. Raised by CodeRabbit on #77.
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hybrid_search() embedded the query with the GUCs, which was right whilst that was the only place a model could come from. Since a vectorizer can pin its own, a query embedded by one model was being compared against chunks embedded by another: meaningless distances where the widths match, and an outright error where they do not, which is the failure this whole line of work exists to prevent, arriving through the search path instead. It now looks the provider and model up alongside the chunk table and passes them through, NULL and all, so a vectorizer that has pinned nothing behaves as before. The 1.1 script never redefined the function, so the upgrade carries a full replacement. The worker's join to the registry could match a queue row twice, because only (source_table, source_column) is unique and two vectorizers can be pointed at one chunk table with an explicit chunk_table_name. The item would then be embedded twice and counted twice into the BM25 corpus statistics. A LATERAL with LIMIT 1 makes the join return one row whatever the registry holds; a unique constraint on chunk_table would be the stronger fix but needs a story for installations that already have duplicates, which is separate work. set_embedding_model() compared raw stored values where the worker, embedding_model_status() and reembed() all treat an empty string as inherit, so an empty override would have been seen as a change by one of the four and not by the other three, and would have reached the dimension probe as a model name of ''. NULLIF everywhere, and the probe now asks about the effective values. resolve_model() returned an unset model GUC unvalidated, where resolve_provider() already refuses one. The providers interpolate it straight into their request bodies, so an empty setting put "model":"" on the wire and a NULL one would have been dereferenced whilst escaping it. One finding declined. CodeRabbit proposed charging a provider that cannot be resolved to the items of its request, so that the rest of the pull proceeds. The observation behind it is right, and is now issue #78: since a vectorizer can name its own provider, one bad name stops every other vectorizer in the database. The prescription is not, because 005_batch_failure_backoff.pl exists to prevent exactly that and injects exactly this fault: charging a blameless item for a misconfigured provider works through the queue retiring one innocent row per max_attempts cycles, so a single mistyped provider name would mark the whole queue failed. Fixing it properly means skipping the group without charging it whilst still reaching the batch backoff, which needs a way to report a batch-level fault without an exception. That is more than this change should carry. Raised by CodeRabbit on #77.
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embedding_model_status() narrowed by resolving every registry row's stored source_table back to a regclass and comparing that against the argument, which raises rather than returning nothing for a schema the caller has no USAGE on. A role with rights on one table and not on another vectorizer's schema therefore got a permission error from the narrowed call whilst the unnarrowed one worked, which is precisely backwards. The comparison is made as text now, as set_embedding_model(), reembed() and hybrid_search() all make it, and the regression test covers the case with a restricted role. The dimension probe in the worker interpolated the chunk table's name into '%s'::regclass unquoted, so it would have failed for a schema-qualified source where the generated name is one identifier with a dot in it. Same defect as the one already fixed in update_embedding(), and fixed the same way. Raised by ibrarahmad and CodeRabbit on #77.
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In `@sql/pgedge_vectorizer--1.1--1.2.sql`:
- Around line 40-47: Update the chunk-table lookup in the vectorizers loop to
search all schemas rather than relying on the upgrade search_path. Proceed only
when exactly one matching table is found; skip missing or ambiguous matches with
a warning, and assign the unique relation to chunk_oid before altering it.
In `@sql/pgedge_vectorizer--1.2.sql`:
- Around line 384-391: Before the registry upsert in both enable_vectorization()
definitions, compare the existing and requested effective provider and model
values, resolving NULL or empty values through the corresponding GUCs. If a
registration already exists and either effective value differs, raise an error
directing callers to set_embedding_model(); otherwise preserve the existing
upsert behavior. Update sql/pgedge_vectorizer--1.2.sql lines 384-391 and
sql/pgedge_vectorizer--1.1--1.2.sql lines 270-277.
- Around line 1058-1074: Update the queue-clearing DELETE in reembed() to
preserve rows marked sparse_only while removing other queued work; retain the
subsequent insertion of dense work for chunks whose embedding is NULL. Apply
this same DELETE change at sql/pgedge_vectorizer--1.2.sql#L1058-L1074 and
sql/pgedge_vectorizer--1.1--1.2.sql#L1273-L1289.
In `@test/sql/model_drift.sql`:
- Line 195: Update the `reembed()` regression-test block to catch errors only
around the `reembed()` call, record whether it raised an error, and emit the
notice from that handler. After the nested handler, raise the “expected an
error, got none” sentinel if no error was recorded, so it cannot be swallowed by
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| ON CONFLICT (source_table, source_column) | ||
| DO UPDATE SET chunk_table = EXCLUDED.chunk_table, | ||
| source_pk = EXCLUDED.source_pk, | ||
| pk_type = EXCLUDED.pk_type, | ||
| provider = EXCLUDED.provider, | ||
| model = EXCLUDED.model' | ||
| USING source_table::TEXT, source_column, chunk_table, source_pk, pk_col_type, | ||
| enable_vectorization.provider, enable_vectorization.model; |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Stop enable_vectorization() from silently replacing a registered provider and model.
The ON CONFLICT upsert copies the provider and model arguments into the registry without a check. Both arguments default to NULL. If a vectorizer was pinned with set_embedding_model() and someone calls enable_vectorization(t, c) again, the pin is reset to GUC inheritance. The same happens when someone passes a different explicit model. Existing embeddings keep the old model, and the worker embeds new chunks with the new one. This bypasses the refusal in set_embedding_model() and produces the silent same-width drift that this PR is meant to prevent. Before the upsert, compare the stored effective values with the new effective values. If they differ, raise an error that points to set_embedding_model().
sql/pgedge_vectorizer--1.2.sql#L384-L391: add the effective-value check before theINSERT ... ON CONFLICTstatement.sql/pgedge_vectorizer--1.1--1.2.sql#L270-L277: add the same check to the upgrade script'senable_vectorization()definition.
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DECLARE
prev_provider TEXT;
prev_model TEXT;
prev_rows INT;
BEGIN
EXECUTE
'SELECT provider, model FROM pgedge_vectorizer.vectorizers
WHERE source_table = $1 AND source_column = $2'
INTO prev_provider, prev_model
USING source_table::TEXT, source_column;
-- EXECUTE does not set FOUND.
GET DIAGNOSTICS prev_rows = ROW_COUNT;
IF prev_rows > 0 AND (
COALESCE(NULLIF(prev_provider, ''), current_setting('pgedge_vectorizer.provider'))
IS DISTINCT FROM
COALESCE(NULLIF(enable_vectorization.provider, ''), current_setting('pgedge_vectorizer.provider'))
OR COALESCE(NULLIF(prev_model, ''), current_setting('pgedge_vectorizer.model'))
IS DISTINCT FROM
COALESCE(NULLIF(enable_vectorization.model, ''), current_setting('pgedge_vectorizer.model')))
THEN
RAISE EXCEPTION 'vectorizer for %.% is already registered with a different provider or model',
source_table, source_column
USING HINT = 'Use pgedge_vectorizer.set_embedding_model() to change it.';
END IF;
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In `@sql/pgedge_vectorizer--1.2.sql` around lines 384 - 391, Before the registry
upsert in both enable_vectorization() definitions, compare the existing and
requested effective provider and model values, resolving NULL or empty values
through the corresponding GUCs. If a registration already exists and either
effective value differs, raise an error directing callers to
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The observation is right and I have raised it as #81, but I am not taking it in this PR. Changing enable_vectorization() to refuse a call that would move the effective provider or model is a change to that function's contract rather than a bug fix: it makes a call that works today start failing, and the NULL case needs a decision about whether NULL there means 'inherit' or 'no opinion', which is not the same question and has consequences for un-pinning. The drift it creates is caught after the fact by embedding_model_status() and repaired by reembed(), which is what this PR is for, so nothing is left without a remedy in the meantime. Leaving this thread open for whoever picks up #81.
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@dpage, thanks for the clarification. I agree that rejecting the call changes the enable_vectorization() contract. The meaning of NULL on a repeated call needs a decision before adding a guard. #81 is the right place for that decision.
This thread can stay open. In the meantime, embedding_model_status() can report drift, and reembed() can repair it.
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Learning: In the PostgreSQL `pgedge_vectorizer` extension, `hybrid_search()` must resolve the registered vectorizer `provider` and `model` with `chunk_table` and pass them to `pgedge_vectorizer.generate_embedding()`. Passing NULL preserves inheritance from the `pgedge_vectorizer.provider` and `pgedge_vectorizer.model` GUCs. `hybrid_search_simple()` delegates to `hybrid_search()`.
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Three things, all raised by CodeRabbit on #77. The upgrade script resolved each registry entry's chunk table by name through whatever search_path the upgrade happened to run with, so a chunk table in a schema outside it resolved to NULL and was skipped without a word, leaving the provenance columns unadded and every later embedding write against that table failing. The registry records only a bare name, so the catalogue is searched instead, and a name found in more than one schema raises a warning rather than guessing which one was meant. 012 now upgrades an installation with a chunk table tucked into its own schema, which fails against the old lookup. reembed() cleared the whole queue for the chunk table, sparse-only rows included, and requeued only chunks with no embedding. A chunk whose dense vector was current and whose sparse vector was still outstanding therefore lost its queued work altogether and kept a NULL sparse_embedding until someone thought to run reprocess_chunks(). Sparse-only rows are left where they are: they carry no dense work to redo, and the probe only marks a chunk sparse-only whilst it still has an embedding. The regression test's check that reembed() rejects an unregistered column raised its own sentinel inside the block that caught it, so a reembed() that wrongly succeeded would have been reported as the expected failure. The sentinel is raised outside the handler now.
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hybrid_search() embedded the query with the GUCs, which was right whilst that was the only place a model could come from. Since a vectorizer can pin its own, a query embedded by one model was being compared against chunks embedded by another: meaningless distances where the widths match, and an outright error where they do not, which is the failure this whole line of work exists to prevent, arriving through the search path instead. It now looks the provider and model up alongside the chunk table and passes them through, NULL and all, so a vectorizer that has pinned nothing behaves as before. The 1.1 script never redefined the function, so the upgrade carries a full replacement. The worker's join to the registry could match a queue row twice, because only (source_table, source_column) is unique and two vectorizers can be pointed at one chunk table with an explicit chunk_table_name. The item would then be embedded twice and counted twice into the BM25 corpus statistics. A LATERAL with LIMIT 1 makes the join return one row whatever the registry holds; a unique constraint on chunk_table would be the stronger fix but needs a story for installations that already have duplicates, which is separate work. set_embedding_model() compared raw stored values where the worker, embedding_model_status() and reembed() all treat an empty string as inherit, so an empty override would have been seen as a change by one of the four and not by the other three, and would have reached the dimension probe as a model name of ''. NULLIF everywhere, and the probe now asks about the effective values. resolve_model() returned an unset model GUC unvalidated, where resolve_provider() already refuses one. The providers interpolate it straight into their request bodies, so an empty setting put "model":"" on the wire and a NULL one would have been dereferenced whilst escaping it. One finding declined. CodeRabbit proposed charging a provider that cannot be resolved to the items of its request, so that the rest of the pull proceeds. The observation behind it is right, and is now issue #78: since a vectorizer can name its own provider, one bad name stops every other vectorizer in the database. The prescription is not, because 005_batch_failure_backoff.pl exists to prevent exactly that and injects exactly this fault: charging a blameless item for a misconfigured provider works through the queue retiring one innocent row per max_attempts cycles, so a single mistyped provider name would mark the whole queue failed. Fixing it properly means skipping the group without charging it whilst still reaching the batch backoff, which needs a way to report a batch-level fault without an exception. That is more than this change should carry. Raised by CodeRabbit on #77.
A vectorizer whose provider and model are NULL inherits the GUCs, and inheritance resolves when the work runs rather than being copied at creation. Changing pgedge_vectorizer.model therefore re-points every inheriting vectorizer at once, leaving a chunk table holding vectors from the old model beside new ones from the new. Similarity between two models' vectors is noise, so those rows become effectively invisible to search rather than merely stale, and where the widths match, as they do between text-embedding-3-small and text-embedding-ada-002, the dimension check in the worker cannot see it either. set_embedding_model() guards the per-vectorizer path and cannot guard this one: the extension does not own that setting and cannot intercept every way it changes. Rather than pretending otherwise, each chunk now records the provider and model that produced its vector, written by update_embedding() in the same statement as the embedding so the two cannot disagree, and embedding_model_status() reports where that differs from what the vectorizer would use now. That diagnoses instead of preventing, but it catches drift whatever its cause, including a setting changed months ago. Reporting alone would leave a number and nothing to do about it, and the obvious remedy does not work: set_embedding_model(force_reembed => true) takes its no-op branch here, because an inheriting vectorizer's effective model already is the new one. reembed() therefore clears and requeues every chunk not known to have come from the effective provider and model. Rows with nothing recorded are counted apart in the report, since they predate the columns and may well be current, but reembed() treats them as needing redoing, a row that cannot be shown to be current being one to do again; on a freshly upgraded installation that is every row, which the documentation says plainly. A change of embedding width takes every chunk with it, drifted or not, because a column cannot hold two widths. Two things found on the way. The columns had to be added to chunk tables by the upgrade script itself. enable_vectorization() adds them to a chunk table it finds without them, but nothing re-runs it on upgrade, and the worker writes both columns in the same statement as the embedding, so an existing installation would have failed every embedding write until someone happened to re-enable a vectorizer. 012 now compares an upgraded chunk table's columns against a freshly created one, which is the check that would have caught it. update_embedding() interpolated the chunk table's name into its UPDATE without quoting, so it would have failed for a schema-qualified source, where the generated name is one identifier with a dot in it rather than a qualified reference. Fixed in passing, since it is the statement being changed. Closes #75
hybrid_search() embedded the query with the GUCs, which was right whilst that was the only place a model could come from. Since a vectorizer can pin its own, a query embedded by one model was being compared against chunks embedded by another: meaningless distances where the widths match, and an outright error where they do not, which is the failure this whole line of work exists to prevent, arriving through the search path instead. It now looks the provider and model up alongside the chunk table and passes them through, NULL and all, so a vectorizer that has pinned nothing behaves as before. The 1.1 script never redefined the function, so the upgrade carries a full replacement. The worker's join to the registry could match a queue row twice, because only (source_table, source_column) is unique and two vectorizers can be pointed at one chunk table with an explicit chunk_table_name. The item would then be embedded twice and counted twice into the BM25 corpus statistics. A LATERAL with LIMIT 1 makes the join return one row whatever the registry holds; a unique constraint on chunk_table would be the stronger fix but needs a story for installations that already have duplicates, which is separate work. set_embedding_model() compared raw stored values where the worker, embedding_model_status() and reembed() all treat an empty string as inherit, so an empty override would have been seen as a change by one of the four and not by the other three, and would have reached the dimension probe as a model name of ''. NULLIF everywhere, and the probe now asks about the effective values. resolve_model() returned an unset model GUC unvalidated, where resolve_provider() already refuses one. The providers interpolate it straight into their request bodies, so an empty setting put "model":"" on the wire and a NULL one would have been dereferenced whilst escaping it. One finding declined. CodeRabbit proposed charging a provider that cannot be resolved to the items of its request, so that the rest of the pull proceeds. The observation behind it is right, and is now issue #78: since a vectorizer can name its own provider, one bad name stops every other vectorizer in the database. The prescription is not, because 005_batch_failure_backoff.pl exists to prevent exactly that and injects exactly this fault: charging a blameless item for a misconfigured provider works through the queue retiring one innocent row per max_attempts cycles, so a single mistyped provider name would mark the whole queue failed. Fixing it properly means skipping the group without charging it whilst still reaching the batch backoff, which needs a way to report a batch-level fault without an exception. That is more than this change should carry. Raised by CodeRabbit on #77.
embedding_model_status() narrowed by resolving every registry row's stored source_table back to a regclass and comparing that against the argument, which raises rather than returning nothing for a schema the caller has no USAGE on. A role with rights on one table and not on another vectorizer's schema therefore got a permission error from the narrowed call whilst the unnarrowed one worked, which is precisely backwards. The comparison is made as text now, as set_embedding_model(), reembed() and hybrid_search() all make it, and the regression test covers the case with a restricted role. The dimension probe in the worker interpolated the chunk table's name into '%s'::regclass unquoted, so it would have failed for a schema-qualified source where the generated name is one identifier with a dot in it. Same defect as the one already fixed in update_embedding(), and fixed the same way. Raised by ibrarahmad and CodeRabbit on #77.
Codacy's SQL rules read a GRANT SELECT to anything not ending in '_role' as a grant to a user account rather than to a role, which the new privilege case in model_drift tripped. The name carries no meaning in the test, so it follows the convention rather than an ignore being recorded against a security finding.
Three things, all raised by CodeRabbit on #77. The upgrade script resolved each registry entry's chunk table by name through whatever search_path the upgrade happened to run with, so a chunk table in a schema outside it resolved to NULL and was skipped without a word, leaving the provenance columns unadded and every later embedding write against that table failing. The registry records only a bare name, so the catalogue is searched instead, and a name found in more than one schema raises a warning rather than guessing which one was meant. 012 now upgrades an installation with a chunk table tucked into its own schema, which fails against the old lookup. reembed() cleared the whole queue for the chunk table, sparse-only rows included, and requeued only chunks with no embedding. A chunk whose dense vector was current and whose sparse vector was still outstanding therefore lost its queued work altogether and kept a NULL sparse_embedding until someone thought to run reprocess_chunks(). Sparse-only rows are left where they are: they carry no dense work to redo, and the probe only marks a chunk sparse-only whilst it still has an embedding. The regression test's check that reembed() rejects an unregistered column raised its own sentinel inside the block that caught it, so a reembed() that wrongly succeeded would have been reported as the expected failure. The sentinel is raised outside the handler now.
The reference described what reembed() does to the chunk table and said nothing about the queue rows, which it replaces, sparse-only rows excepted.
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Spent most of the time on the upgrade path, since that is where the damage would have been. On a 1.1 install with an existing chunk table:
1.1 chunk table cols: embedding
after upgrade cols: embedding, embedding_provider, embedding_model
and the worker then embeds all three rows and records voyage/healthy-model against them. Without the ALTER in the upgrade script that would have been every embedding write failing, so it is worth having found.
Also confirmed a schema-qualified source (app.docs) embeds correctly now, which is the update_embedding() quoting fix.
Drift reporting and repair behave: changing the model shows chunks_current 0 / chunks_other_model 3 with the old pair still listed in embedded_models, and reembed() clears those three and requeues them.
setup, model_drift, per_table_model and embedding pass.
Nothing blocking from me.
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Summary
A vectorizer that inherits follows
pgedge_vectorizer.modelas it changes, so a chunk table can end up holding vectors from two models with nothing reporting it. Those rows are not merely stale: similarity between two models' vectors is noise, so they are effectively invisible to search. Where the widths match, andtext-embedding-3-smalltotext-embedding-ada-002is both plausible and 1536 either way, the worker's dimension check cannot see it either.set_embedding_model()guards the per-vectorizer path and cannot guard this one, because the extension does not own that GUC and cannot intercept every way it changes. So rather than pretend to:update_embedding()in the same statement as the embedding so the two cannot disagree. Provider as well as model, because a model name alone is not an identity.embedding_model_status()reports, per vectorizer, how many embedded chunks came from what it would use now, how many from something else, how many predate the columns, and which pairs are actually present. Shaped so Add vectorizer_status for embedding coverage and backlog #73'svectorizer_statusview can absorb its columns unchanged once that lands.reembed()repairs it. The obvious remedy does not work:set_embedding_model(force_reembed => true)takes its no-op branch here, since an inheriting vectorizer's effective model already is the new one.The judgement calls
Unknown rows are reported apart but repaired anyway. A row with nothing recorded predates the columns and may well be current, so the report counts it separately rather than calling it drift.
reembed()has to act rather than describe, and the safe reading of a row that cannot be shown to be current is that it needs doing again, so it goes. On a freshly upgraded installation that is every row; the docs say so.A width change takes everything. At a matching width only the not-current rows are cleared and requeued. If the effective model is a different width the column has to be altered, which needs every embedding cleared, so every chunk is requeued whether it had drifted or not. A notice says which happened.
No confirmation flag on
reembed(). Unlikeset_embedding_model(), whose re-embed is a surprising consequence of a settings change, this function does what its name says. It raises a notice with the count, because the cost lands on a metered provider.Two things found on the way
enable_vectorization()adds the columns to a chunk table it finds without them, but nothing re-runs it on upgrade, and the worker writes both columns in the same statement as the embedding. An existing installation would have failed every embedding write until someone happened to re-enable a vectorizer.012_upgrade_1_1_to_1_2.plnow compares an upgraded chunk table's columns against a freshly created one, which is the check that would have caught it.update_embedding()did not quote the chunk table name, so it would have failed for a schema-qualified source, where the generated name is one identifier with a dot in it rather than a qualified reference. The same family as the bug CodeRabbit caught in Add vectorizer_status for embedding coverage and backlog #73. Fixed in passing, since it is the statement being changed.Test plan
model_driftregression test: the columns exist; four chunks in four states (current, drifted, unknown, unembedded) and the counts the report makes of them; unembedded chunks excluded from every count; narrowing by table and column;reembed()at a matching width clearing only the not-current rows and leaving the current one embedded; a vectorizer that is entirely current queuing nothing; a width change clearing everything and altering the column tovector(768);token_countandsparse_embeddingintact throughout; the error for an unregistered vectorizer.013_embedding_model_recorded.pl: a real worker against a fake provider, two vectorizers on different models, asserting each table's rows record its own model rather than the GUC, that no embedded chunk is left without one, that the report sees everything as current, and thatreembed()then queues nothing.Found in review
embedding_model_status(t)compared each registry row's stored name back throughto_regclass(), which raises for a schema the caller has no USAGE on, so narrowing to the one table they could read failed whilst the unnarrowed call worked. Compared as text now, as every other lookup in the extension does. Raised by @ibrarahmad.012covers it.reembed()cleared sparse-only queue rows, so a chunk whose dense vector was current and whose sparse work was still outstanding lost it. Those rows are left alone.update_embedding().One finding declined, and raised as #81 instead:
enable_vectorization()resets a pinned provider and model on a repeat call, which goes roundset_embedding_model()'s guard. Real, but changing that function to refuse the call is a change to its contract rather than a bug fix, and the NULL case needs a decision about what NULL means there.Note on the base branch
Stacked on #74, which this needs for the registry's provider and model columns, so the diff carries that work and #72's until they land. It targets
mainbecause CI only runs on PRs based onmain,masterordevelop.Closes #75