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In `@docs/api_reference.md`:
- Around line 217-224: Update the embedding_model_status() signature in the API
reference to use the declared parameter names p_source_table and p_source_column
instead of source_table and source_column, while preserving their REGCLASS/NAME
types and NULL defaults.
In `@docs/configuration.md`:
- Around line 82-89: In the documentation around set_embedding_model(), remove
the duplicated broader statement that implies force_reembed => true is always
required when embeddings exist. Keep the qualified rule: require force_reembed
=> true only when the vectorizer already has embeddings and the effective model
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In `@docs/troubleshooting.md`:
- Around line 136-138: Update the diagnostic query to report each vectorizer’s
effective provider, including the database-wide pgedge_vectorizer.provider
fallback when the row-level provider is NULL, and remove the provider IS NOT
NULL filter so inherited values are visible.
In `@src/worker.c`:
- Around line 2040-2045: Set attempted to true in the batch_sparse_only branch
after the sparse-only request successfully allocates embeddings, updates chunk
rows, and marks items completed, matching the provider path so
process_queue_batch() reports successful work for pulls containing only
sparse-only items.
- Around line 1749-1755: Move the cooling-filter construction using cooling,
provider_cooling_names(), and psprintf() to after StartTransactionCommand() and
SPI_connect() within process_queue_batch(), ensuring these allocations use the
transaction’s SPI context while preserving the existing filter behavior.
In `@test/t/011_per_table_model.pl`:
- Around line 46-53: Register the forked fake-provider child for cleanup in an
END block after the server_pid is created, ensuring the child is terminated and
reaped if the parent exits before explicit cleanup. Use the existing server_pid
and cleanup mechanisms, while preserving the child’s fake_provider execution and
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- Around line 42-49: Add exit-time cleanup for both fake-provider child
processes created in the fork blocks of 013_embedding_model_recorded.pl by
registering an END handler after each fork that terminates the corresponding
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Two of these are mine and would have bitten. A pull made entirely of sparse-only items reported that it attempted nothing, because `attempted` was set only on the path that reaches a provider, and the sparse-only branch needs none. The caller would then have grown the backoff to its five minute cap and logged that there was no usable provider, whilst every item in the pull was in fact scored and completed. That branch exists for chunks that already have their dense embedding, so it is not an unusual path. The cooling-provider filter was built before the transaction started, in a context the worker keeps for the life of the process, so every poll left a little behind for ever. Moved inside, where the transaction reclaims it. The rest are documentation and test hygiene. The reference gave embedding_model_status() parameter names that do not exist, so a named-argument call copied from the page would have failed; they carry a p_ prefix because the function returns columns of the same names. The configuration page stated the force_reembed rule twice, the second time without the qualifier that makes it true, so it read as an unconditional refusal whenever embeddings exist. And the troubleshooting query filtered on provider IS NOT NULL, which returns nothing in precisely the case that section is about: a mistyped pgedge_vectorizer.provider leaves every override NULL. It shows the effective provider now. 011, 013 and 014 gained the END block that 015 already had, after a failing assertion in 015 left its fake provider holding the pipe and hung prove rather than reporting the failure. Raised by CodeRabbit on #79.
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Read through the isolation work. The per-provider cooldown and doing the exclusion in the claim both look right, and the contiguity assumption behind stepping over the deferred run holds given sort_batch_by_model(). One problem though: the starvation the cooldown filter is in SQL to avoid is still reachable through the unavailable-provider path. Details inline.
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Two of these are mine and would have bitten. A pull made entirely of sparse-only items reported that it attempted nothing, because `attempted` was set only on the path that reaches a provider, and the sparse-only branch needs none. The caller would then have grown the backoff to its five minute cap and logged that there was no usable provider, whilst every item in the pull was in fact scored and completed. That branch exists for chunks that already have their dense embedding, so it is not an unusual path. The cooling-provider filter was built before the transaction started, in a context the worker keeps for the life of the process, so every poll left a little behind for ever. Moved inside, where the transaction reclaims it. The rest are documentation and test hygiene. The reference gave embedding_model_status() parameter names that do not exist, so a named-argument call copied from the page would have failed; they carry a p_ prefix because the function returns columns of the same names. The configuration page stated the force_reembed rule twice, the second time without the qualifier that makes it true, so it read as an unconditional refusal whenever embeddings exist. And the troubleshooting query filtered on provider IS NOT NULL, which returns nothing in precisely the case that section is about: a mistyped pgedge_vectorizer.provider leaves every override NULL. It shows the effective provider now. 011, 013 and 014 gained the END block that 015 already had, after a failing assertion in 015 left its fake provider holding the pipe and hung prove rather than reporting the failure. Raised by CodeRabbit on #79.
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Thanks, that was the right thread to pull on: skipping the unusable group moved the starvation rather than removing it, and your reproduction is now the second half of 015. All three are fixed in c495fd6, with the details on each thread. In short, an unresolvable provider goes into |
Embeddings are derived data generated asynchronously, so a search is always running against a picture of the source that is some way out of date, and until now there was no way to find out how far. Add a vectorizer_status view giving, per registered vectorizer, how much of the source is embedded and how much work is still queued, so that a user can judge whether a result set reflects recent changes and an operator can see a worker that has stalled or a provider that is rejecting requests. Coverage is reported two ways because they answer different questions. source_coverage, the fraction of source rows with at least one embedded chunk, is the closer match to whether a search over the table can be trusted, whilst chunk_coverage, the fraction of individual chunks embedded, is the better measure of how much work remains. A large document part-way through being embedded is covered on the first and only partly on the second. Alongside those are the pending, processing and failed queue counts for the vectorizer, the age of the oldest pending item and the timestamp of the most recent completion. Chunk tables are named in the registry rather than joined statically, so the counts are gathered with dynamic SQL in a function that the view wraps. The function takes an optional source table and column, so a single vectorizer can be inspected without paying for all of them; that matters because each row costs a scan of one chunk table and a count of one source table, which is a good deal more than the existing queue views cost. The docs say so plainly, and say that this is a diagnostic to run deliberately rather than something to poll. Two deliberate choices. The function runs as the caller and reports NULL counts for a chunk or source table that has been dropped or that the caller cannot read, rather than failing the whole result set, because one inaccessible vectorizer should not make the view useless for the rest. And a source_coverage above 1 is left visible rather than clamped, since it means the chunk table holds rows for source rows that have gone, which is a real problem worth seeing. Closes #25
enable_vectorization() builds the chunk table's name as source_table || column || '_chunks' and creates it with %I, so for a schema-qualified source table the dot ends up inside a single identifier rather than separating a schema from a relation. Passing that text to to_regclass() as it stands makes it look for a relation in a schema of that name, finds nothing, and leaves every chunk-derived column NULL whilst the queue columns carry on working, which reads as a table with no chunks rather than as a lookup that failed. quote_ident() keeps the name in one piece, matching what quote_identifier() already does for the same value in bm25.c. The source table's name is left alone, since that comes from regclass output and is a genuine qualified reference. Raised by CodeRabbit on #73.
to_regclass() does not return NULL for every name it cannot resolve. Given a qualified name whose schema the caller has no USAGE on, it raises insufficient_privilege instead, so vectorizer_status() failed the entire result set for a caller holding rights on one vectorizer but not on another's schema, and the has_table_privilege() check that was meant to catch exactly that case never ran. Resolve the source table inside a block that traps insufficient_privilege and leaves src_oid NULL, which restores what the comment above the counts promises: a vectorizer the caller cannot read reports NULL counts rather than making the view useless for every other one. The narrowing by p_source_table moves out of the query driving the loop and into the loop body for the same reason, since resolving every registry row in the WHERE clause raises on a vectorizer the caller cannot see even when it asked about a different table. The chunk table lookup needs no guard: quote_ident() makes it a single unqualified name, and an unqualified lookup skips schemas without USAGE rather than erroring. The regression test covers both paths with a role that has no USAGE on the schema holding one of the registered source tables. Raised by Ibrar Ahmed on #73.
The chunk table's name is generated as source_table || column || '_chunks' and created with %I, so for a schema-qualified source the dot is part of a single identifier. Passing it to to_regclass() unquoted makes the lookup read the dot as qualification and come back NULL for a table that is plainly there, which was fixed for vectorizer_status() earlier in this branch but left in two other places carried over from 1.1. In recreate_chunks() the failed lookup raises 'Chunk table % does not exist. Use enable_vectorization() first.' for a vectorizer that was enabled quite correctly, so the rebuild is impossible for any source table outside the search path. In vectorization_truncate_trigger() it skips the reset of the BM25 statistics table, so truncating the source empties every chunk but leaves the corpus statistics describing chunks that no longer exist, which then skews hybrid search scores until something else rewrites them. recreate_chunks() was already being redefined by the upgrade script for the token_count change, so it picks the fix up there. The truncate trigger function was not, so the upgrade script now replaces it; the trigger itself is unchanged and does not need recreating. Raised by CodeRabbit on #73.
The four provider implementations read pgedge_vectorizer.model straight from the GUC, and the provider interface had nowhere to put a model, so nothing could ask for an embedding from anything other than whatever the database was globally configured to use. That is the obstacle to a per-vectorizer model, and it is removed here rather than worked around by setting the GUC around each request: a provider that silently depends on ambient global state cannot be asked to embed with anything else, and mutating that state inside the worker's batch loop would have made the error paths considerably harder to reason about. generate() and generate_batch() therefore take the model explicitly, and the providers use the argument. Every existing call site passes the GUC, so behaviour is unchanged. generate_embedding() and detect_embedding_dimension() gain optional provider and model arguments on the same rule that will apply to the registry: NULL means fall back to the GUC. Neither is STRICT any more, since a STRICT function would return NULL before that argument could reach the C. The dimension probe needs this in particular, because a vectorizer created with an override needs the dimension of the model it names, not of whatever the GUCs happen to say.
pgedge_vectorizer.vectorizers gains nullable provider and model columns, and enable_vectorization() gains matching parameters in ninth and tenth position so that existing positional calls are untouched. NULL means inherit the GUC at the time the work runs rather than a copy taken at creation, so an installation that never sets either behaves exactly as it did. Where the dimension is not given, the probe now asks about the model this vectorizer will actually use rather than the one the GUCs name, which would otherwise size the vector column against the wrong model whenever an override was passed. Nothing reads the columns yet; the worker does that in the next commit.
The model was one GUC applied to every table in the database, which is the wrong granularity: a table of short product titles and a table of long technical documents are rarely well served by the same model, and there was no way to embed one table locally through Ollama whilst another went to a hosted provider. A vectorizer now records its own provider and model, both nullable, NULL meaning inherit. Inheritance resolves when the work runs rather than being copied at creation, so an installation that sets neither carries on exactly as before. They can be pinned at enable_vectorization() or changed afterwards with the new set_embedding_model(). The worker resolves inheritance in the query that fetches a batch, with a left join against the registry and COALESCE against the GUCs, so the rule lives in one place and an item whose vectorizer has since been disabled falls back through the same expression rather than needing a special case. A batch is selected by age across every vectorizer at once, so it can hold items for several models, and a request carries one; the batch is therefore grouped by (provider, model) before the existing loop runs and batch_extent() breaks on the same key. Sorting rather than merely breaking the run matters, because two tables' items alternating in time would otherwise give requests of one item each. The provider is resolved per request instead of once per batch. set_embedding_model() refuses to change a vectorizer that already has embeddings unless force_reembed is passed. The refusal keys on the model changing rather than the dimension changing, which is the case worth guarding: a dimension change is caught before any write by the existing check in the worker, whilst a change between two models of the same width, say text-embedding-3-small and text-embedding-ada-002 at 1536 each, would leave the old vectors in place, correctly shaped and meaningless beside the new ones, with nothing reporting a problem. With force_reembed the embeddings are cleared, the column rewidened if needed, the queue cleared and every chunk requeued, all in one transaction. Chunk rows, token counts, sparse embeddings and the BM25 statistics are untouched, since none of them depends on the embedding model. Three things fell out along the way. generate_embedding() and detect_embedding_dimension() take an optional provider and model, and can no longer be STRICT, because NULL has to reach the function to mean "use the GUC". That makes generate_embedding(NULL) raise rather than return NULL, which is what the function always meant to do and said so in its own code, unreachably. The array of chunk tables that disable_vectorization() drops was collected with no ORDER BY, so the notices came out in whatever order the scan returned, and adding registry columns changed it. It is ordered now. Adding defaulted parameters to enable_vectorization() with CREATE OR REPLACE defined a second function rather than replacing the old one, leaving two overloads on any upgraded installation, an eight-argument call reaching a body that knew nothing of the new columns, and COMMENT ON FUNCTION failing as ambiguous, whilst a fresh install was perfect throughout. pg_regress installs whatever default_version says, so it can never see this; 012_upgrade_1_1_to_1_2 builds a 1.1 installation, upgrades it, and compares its functions, columns and views against a fresh 1.2, which is the shape of check that catches the whole class rather than this one instance. Closes #27
test/expected/ carries numbered variants of embedding.out for the cases where provider API keys are actually available, and pg_regress passes if the output matches any of them. Only the default one was updated for the new generate_embedding() signature and for NULL input now raising, so every platform without keys was happy and the macOS runner, which has them, failed against embedding_4.out. The two changed lines are common to all five, so all five now carry them.
Widening where the model comes from, from one GUC to a registry column and a SQL argument, broke assumptions in several places that were safe whilst it was a single trusted setting. The model was interpolated raw into every provider's request body, and into Gemini's URL path. Escaped now in all four, once in the shared OpenAI-format builder that OpenAI and Voyage use and once each in Ollama and Gemini, with a percent-encoding helper for the URL segment, where a '/' or '?' would have sent the request to a different endpoint. A rate limit deferred every remaining item in the pull and charged each one a deferral, which was right whilst a pull could only carry one provider's work. Now that a batch can span providers, that spent deferrals belonging to a provider that had not refused anything and, once they ran out, failed its items outright. Only the refused provider's items are deferred; the rest go back to pending uncharged for the next pull. set_embedding_model() computed the new dimension and altered the column only when the vectorizer had chunks, so an empty one kept the width it was created with and failed every embedding written after the change, which is precisely the failure the function exists to prevent. The dimension is resolved and the column altered whichever it is, whilst clearing embeddings and requeuing stay conditional. That does mean a call without an explicit dimension always probes the provider, as enable_vectorization() does, which the reference now states. The requeue omitted max_attempts, taking the column default of 3 rather than pgedge_vectorizer.max_retries as every other queue insert does. The worker's inheritance expression handled NULL but not an empty string, which resolve_provider() and resolve_model() in embed.c both treat as inherit; NULLIF puts them on the same footing. Two documentation corrections. The data-management guidance still told users to drop the chunk table and enable vectorization again after a dimension change, which throws away chunks, sparse embeddings and BM25 statistics that were never wrong. And the configuration example passed NULL as the model without saying that the provider defaults to NULL too, so it reverts alongside unless named again. Raised by CodeRabbit on #74.
The call restoring ptm_named's model left provider at NULL, so the reset case that follows started from a vectorizer with nothing pinned and could not show that the provider clears alongside the model. Pinning both first makes the assertion mean something. The provider named matches the GUC, so the effective values still do not move and the case remains the no-op it is there to cover. Raised by CodeRabbit on #74.
The worker resolved each item's provider and model through a plain left join from the queue to pgedge_vectorizer.vectorizers on chunk_table, which is not a key: the column carries no unique constraint, enable_vectorization() accepts an explicit chunk_table_name, and the generated default can collide of its own accord. Two registry rows naming one chunk table therefore returned a row per match, so a single queued item was embedded once per model and the later write won, with nothing reporting a problem. The lookup is a LATERAL ... LIMIT 1 now, ordered by id so that the vectorizer which claimed the name first wins, and which cannot multiply rows whatever the registry holds. 011_per_table_model adds a second registry row against the inheriting table's chunk table; without this change the batch is split three ways rather than two. Raised by @ibrarahmad on #74.
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.
process_queue_batch() still assumed a pull of queue items belonged to a single provider, which stopped being true when a vectorizer could name its own. Two failures followed from that one assumption, and they share enough machinery to be worth fixing together. A rate limit stopped everything. The cooldown was a single deadline checked before the pull, so a hosted provider on a free tier held up a local model with no quota at all, and the 429 handler broke out of the request loop so nothing else in that pull was attempted either. Cooldowns are now kept per provider and the claim excludes the ones cooling, which has to happen in SQL rather than after the fetch: the pull takes the oldest batch_size rows, so a cooling provider with a backlog at the head of the queue would otherwise fill every batch and starve everyone behind it, which is the same fault one step further along. Because the batch is sorted by (provider, model) a provider's items are contiguous, so the 429 handler steps over exactly the run it deferred and lets the rest of the pull proceed. An unresolvable provider stopped everything too. Resolution raised, which aborted the transaction and returned the whole pull to pending including work whose provider was fine, and the next pull failed in the same place. The group is now put back and skipped, uncharged, and the loop carries on. That removes the exception the batch backoff depended on, so process_queue_batch() reports whether it attempted anything and the caller grows the wait when a pull found work and could attempt none of it. Without that a database whose only provider is mistyped would poll flat out, which is precisely what 005_batch_failure_backoff.pl exists to prevent. 005 needed two of its nine assertions rewritten, and this is worth being plain about. Five passed untouched because the backoff wording is unchanged, and the two that failed were both counting "error in processing, continuing", which is the exception handler's line: they asserted the mechanism rather than the behaviour, and the mechanism is what the issue asked to change. They now count the new line, the file's header no longer claims the fault raises, and a ninth assertion was added for the property the test only implied, that no item is ever charged for a provider being misconfigured. That property is the constraint this whole design was built around, so it is now checked rather than assumed. One thing found by the new tests rather than reported. set_embedding_model() counted rows where it meant embedded rows, so a vectorizer whose provider was mistyped, and which had therefore never embedded anything, could not be corrected: the function refused, claiming its chunks were "embedded with" a model that had never run. The refusal exists because vectors from two models are not comparable, and a chunk with no vector has nothing to be incomparable with. Closes #76
Two of these are mine and would have bitten. A pull made entirely of sparse-only items reported that it attempted nothing, because `attempted` was set only on the path that reaches a provider, and the sparse-only branch needs none. The caller would then have grown the backoff to its five minute cap and logged that there was no usable provider, whilst every item in the pull was in fact scored and completed. That branch exists for chunks that already have their dense embedding, so it is not an unusual path. The cooling-provider filter was built before the transaction started, in a context the worker keeps for the life of the process, so every poll left a little behind for ever. Moved inside, where the transaction reclaims it. The rest are documentation and test hygiene. The reference gave embedding_model_status() parameter names that do not exist, so a named-argument call copied from the page would have failed; they carry a p_ prefix because the function returns columns of the same names. The configuration page stated the force_reembed rule twice, the second time without the qualifier that makes it true, so it read as an unconditional refusal whenever embeddings exist. And the troubleshooting query filtered on provider IS NOT NULL, which returns nothing in precisely the case that section is about: a mistyped pgedge_vectorizer.provider leaves every override NULL. It shows the effective provider now. 011, 013 and 014 gained the END block that 015 already had, after a failing assertion in 015 left its fake provider holding the pipe and hung prove rather than reporting the failure. Raised by CodeRabbit on #79.
Skipping the group was not enough on its own. The items went back with created_at and next_retry_at untouched, so they were the oldest again on the very next pull, and a misconfigured vectorizer with more pending rows than batch_size filled every claim with work that could not be done and starved everything behind it. That is the same starvation the cooling filter is in SQL to avoid, one step further along, and it is the shape a real deployment lands in, since enable_vectorization() on a mistyped provider queues the whole table at once. An unresolvable provider is therefore held off for a minute, exactly as a rate limited one is, which takes it out of the claim and leaves the pull free to reach work that is fine. Correcting the provider still drains the queue on its own, because the cooldown is keyed on the name that failed and a corrected vectorizer no longer resolves to it; a corrected GUC or a key file that has appeared arrives by reload, which now clears every cooldown along with the batch backoff. Two consequences of that come with it. A claim that is filtered and comes back empty can no longer be read as an empty queue, since that would clear the backoff and leave the worker polling flat out for the length of the hold-off, so it asks whether the work it did not see is being held; and the wait after a pull that attempted nothing is now capped by the hold-off that caused it, so a backoff grown past it cannot leave the queue sitting after the provider is due back. Also drops the UPDATE that put another provider's items back to pending during a rate-limit deferral. It decided nothing once the deferral stopped breaking out of the loop: those items are processed a few lines further on, in the same transaction, so the statement was overwritten as fast as it was issued and cost up to batch_size - 1 statements per 429. The run is now ended at the first item belonging to anyone else, which the sort by (provider, model) guarantees is where it ends. 015 grows a second half for the starvation, with a backlog longer than a claim committed ahead of the healthy work. Verified to fail without the hold-off.
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Calling enable_vectorization() again on a table that already has a vectorizer, typically to change the chunking, overwrote the registered provider and model with whatever that call passed. Omitting them therefore reverted a pinned vectorizer to the GUCs, whilst the vectors the old model had already written stayed where they were. Similarity between two models' vectors is noise rather than an error, and where the widths match, as they do between text-embedding-3-small and text-embedding-ada-002, nothing downstream catches it either, so search degrades quietly. A NULL or empty provider or model now leaves whatever is registered alone, and naming one that differs from the vectorizer's effective provider or model raises, pointing the caller at set_embedding_model(), which is the only thing that also clears the embeddings, rewidens the column and requeues the chunks. Effective rather than stored values are compared, so naming what the vectorizer already resolves to is free, exactly as set_embedding_model() already treats it. The guard sits before the dimension probe, so a refused call costs no provider round trip. Closes #81
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The hold-off is the right shape, but the wait it pairs with cancels it out. Detail inline.
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Capping the wait at the remaining cooldown makes the next claim land exactly when the hold-off lapses, which is the one moment the bad provider is eligible again. It re-claims the same oldest rows, re-cools for another 60s, and waits 59s again. The filter is never in force when a claim actually runs.
Same setup as before: 40 rows on no_such_provider committed ahead of 3 healthy ones, batch_size = 10. Steady state is exactly periodic:
20:13:20.670 ... holding off that provider for 60s
20:13:20.670 no usable provider for the queued work, waiting 59s
20:14:20.683 ... holding off that provider for 60s
20:14:20.683 no usable provider for the queued work, waiting 59s
Four minutes of that: 0 healthy items completed, 0 requests reaching the healthy provider, which was up and answering.
The filter itself is fine. Running the claim by hand while the hold-off is up returns healthy_body_chunks; without it, which is what every real claim sees, it returns broken_body_chunks. So this is only the timing.
Waking before the cooldown expires rather than at it would fix it. The wait exists to let the queue move for someone else, and that needs the filter still up when the claim runs.
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Right again, and the periodic log makes it hard to argue with: the cap put every claim at the one instant the filter had just come down, so it took the same 25 rows each time and the hold-off never actually did anything.
Fixed in 2854f82. A pull that holds a provider off is now followed by another claim straight away, whilst the filter is still in force, rather than by any wait at all; the backoff is left for that claim to settle. It cannot spin, since each such claim needs a provider that was not already held off. The cap stays, because when everything is held off it is still the right time to look again, and the claim that lands at the expiry now re-holds the provider and goes straight on past it.
The second half of 015 had a four second poll, which put its next claim comfortably inside the hold-off, so it never reached the state you did. It now has a database of its own with the poll interval at its 60 second maximum, which makes every wait run to the cap from the first cycle; it fails without the change and passes with it, and the full TAP suite passes.
Stop enable_vectorization() moving the embedding model
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| COALESCE(provider, current_setting('pgedge_vectorizer.provider')) | ||
| AS effective_provider, | ||
| COALESCE(model, current_setting('pgedge_vectorizer.model')) | ||
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Add NULLIF so the query reports the provider the worker actually uses.
The worker resolves the provider with COALESCE(NULLIF(v.provider, ''), current_setting(...)). This query drops the NULLIF. If a vectorizer stores an empty string, the query shows '' as its effective provider. The worker uses the GUC value instead. The same mismatch applies to model.
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- COALESCE(provider, current_setting('pgedge_vectorizer.provider'))
+ COALESCE(NULLIF(provider, ''), current_setting('pgedge_vectorizer.provider'))
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- COALESCE(model, current_setting('pgedge_vectorizer.model'))
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| COALESCE(provider, current_setting('pgedge_vectorizer.provider')) | |
| AS effective_provider, | |
| COALESCE(model, current_setting('pgedge_vectorizer.model')) | |
| AS effective_model | |
| COALESCE(NULLIF(provider, ''), current_setting('pgedge_vectorizer.provider')) | |
| AS effective_provider, | |
| COALESCE(NULLIF(model, ''), current_setting('pgedge_vectorizer.model')) | |
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| IF embedding_dimension IS NULL THEN | ||
| embedding_dimension := pgedge_vectorizer.detect_embedding_dimension(); | ||
| -- Probe the model this vectorizer will actually use, which is not | ||
| -- necessarily the one the GUCs name. | ||
| embedding_dimension := pgedge_vectorizer.detect_embedding_dimension( | ||
| enable_vectorization.provider, enable_vectorization.model); | ||
| RAISE NOTICE 'Auto-detected embedding dimension: %', embedding_dimension; | ||
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Same raw-argument dimension probe as the fresh-install script.
The upgrade's enable_vectorization() makes the same mistake. It probes with enable_vectorization.provider and enable_vectorization.model instead of the effective values, so on a repeated call it ignores the stored pin.
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Update the dimension probe in enable_vectorization() to use the effective
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| IF embedding_dimension IS NULL THEN | ||
| embedding_dimension := pgedge_vectorizer.detect_embedding_dimension(); | ||
| -- Probe the model this vectorizer will actually use, which is not | ||
| -- necessarily the one the GUCs name. | ||
| embedding_dimension := pgedge_vectorizer.detect_embedding_dimension( | ||
| enable_vectorization.provider, enable_vectorization.model); | ||
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Probe the vectorizer's effective provider and model, not the raw arguments.
The dimension probe at Line 301 passes enable_vectorization.provider and enable_vectorization.model exactly as given. When the call is repeated and leaves those arguments out, the upsert at Lines 440-443 keeps the stored pin. The probe still resolves to the global pgedge_vectorizer.provider and pgedge_vectorizer.model settings.
Example trigger: a vectorizer is pinned to ollama/nomic-embed-text. The user re-runs enable_vectorization() to change the chunk size and does not pass embedding_dimension. The probe then sends a real request to the global provider, such as openai. If that provider has no key or cannot be reached, the call fails. Even if the request succeeds, the result is wasted: CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ignores the dimension for an existing chunk table.
An empty string has the same problem. '' reaches the probe as a model name. The INSERT branch also stores '', because NULLIF appears only in DO UPDATE. set_embedding_model() already avoids this by probing the effective values (Lines 845-850).
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IF embedding_dimension IS NULL THEN
-- Probe the model this vectorizer will actually use, which is not
-- necessarily the one the GUCs name.
embedding_dimension := pgedge_vectorizer.detect_embedding_dimension(
- enable_vectorization.provider, enable_vectorization.model);
+ COALESCE(NULLIF(enable_vectorization.provider, ''),
+ NULLIF(prev_provider, ''),
+ current_setting('pgedge_vectorizer.provider')),
+ COALESCE(NULLIF(enable_vectorization.model, ''),
+ NULLIF(prev_model, ''),
+ current_setting('pgedge_vectorizer.model')));
RAISE NOTICE 'Auto-detected embedding dimension: %', embedding_dimension;
END IF;Normalize the stored values in the upsert as well, for example VALUES ($1, $2, $3, $4, $5, NULLIF($6, ''), NULLIF($7, '')).
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| IF embedding_dimension IS NULL THEN | |
| embedding_dimension := pgedge_vectorizer.detect_embedding_dimension(); | |
| -- Probe the model this vectorizer will actually use, which is not | |
| -- necessarily the one the GUCs name. | |
| embedding_dimension := pgedge_vectorizer.detect_embedding_dimension( | |
| enable_vectorization.provider, enable_vectorization.model); | |
| RAISE NOTICE 'Auto-detected embedding dimension: %', embedding_dimension; | |
| END IF; | |
| IF embedding_dimension IS NULL THEN | |
| -- Probe the model this vectorizer will actually use, which is not | |
| -- necessarily the one the GUCs name. | |
| embedding_dimension := pgedge_vectorizer.detect_embedding_dimension( | |
| COALESCE(NULLIF(enable_vectorization.provider, ''), | |
| NULLIF(prev_provider, ''), | |
| current_setting('pgedge_vectorizer.provider')), | |
| COALESCE(NULLIF(enable_vectorization.model, ''), | |
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The wait after a pull that attempted nothing is capped by the hold-off that caused it, so the next claim landed just as the hold-off lapsed, which is the one moment the provider is eligible again. With a backlog longer than batch_size that claim took the same unusable rows, held the provider off again and waited again, so the filter was never in force when a claim ran and nothing behind the backlog was reached. Ibrar found it in review on #79. A pull that holds a provider off is now followed by another claim straight away, whilst the filter still excludes that provider. It cannot spin, since each such claim needs a provider that was not already held off. The second half of 015 could not see this: its four second poll put the next claim well inside the hold-off. It now uses a database of its own with the poll interval at its maximum, so that every wait runs to the cap, and fails on the first cycle without the change. Also corrects two points in the API reference that CodeRabbit raised: force_reembed is needed only for embedded chunks, and vectorizer_status() takes p_source_table and p_source_column, each filtering on its own.
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process_queue_batch()still assumed a pull of queue items belonged to a single provider, which stopped being true once a vectorizer could name its own (#74). Two failures follow from that one assumption, and they share enough machinery to be worth fixing together rather than twice.A rate limit stopped everything. The cooldown was a single deadline checked before the pull, so a hosted provider on a free tier held up a local model with no quota at all, and the 429 handler
breaks out of the request loop so nothing else in that pull was attempted either.batch_sizerows, so a cooling provider with a backlog at the head of the queue would otherwise fill every batch and starve everyone behind it — the same fault, one step further along.An unresolvable provider stopped everything. Resolution raised, which aborted the transaction and returned the whole pull to
pendingincluding work whose provider was fine; the next pull failed in the same place, so nothing drained and nothing failed. The group is now put back and skipped, uncharged, and the loop carries on.Skipping it is not enough on its own, as @ibrarahmad found in review: the items go back as the oldest in the queue, so a vectorizer with more pending rows than
batch_sizefills every claim with work that cannot be done and starves everything behind it, which is the starvation the cooling filter is in SQL to avoid, one step further along. The provider is therefore held off for a minute as a rate limited one is, and the existing filter takes it out of the claim. Correcting it still drains the queue on its own, because the cooldown is keyed on the name that failed; a corrected GUC, or a key file that has appeared, arrives by reload, which clears every cooldown along with the batch backoff. A pull that holds a provider off is followed by another claim at once, whilst the filter is still in force: waiting instead would let the claim land as the hold-off lapsed and take the same rows again, as @ibrarahmad also found. A filtered claim that comes back empty no longer reads as an empty queue, or the backoff would clear and the worker would poll flat out for the length of the hold-off, and the wait after a pull that attempted nothing is capped by the hold-off that caused it.That removes the exception the batch backoff depended on, so
process_queue_batch()returns whether it attempted anything and the caller grows the wait when a pull found work and could attempt none of it. Without that, a database whose only provider is mistyped would poll flat out.About the change to 005_batch_failure_backoff.pl
Worth reading rather than skimming, since that test is the constraint this design was built around.
Five of its assertions passed untouched, because the backoff wording is unchanged. The two that failed were both counting
"error in processing, continuing"— the exception handler's line. They asserted the mechanism, and the mechanism is exactly what the issue asked to change: the whole point is that this fault stops raising. They now count the new line, and the file's header no longer claims the fault raises.I also added a ninth assertion for the property the test only implied in a comment: that no item is ever charged for a provider being misconfigured. That is the thing that must not regress, so it is now checked rather than assumed.
I did try CodeRabbit's earlier suggestion of charging those items (on #77); it failed 7 of 005's 8 assertions, which is why this takes the longer route instead.
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set_embedding_model()counted rows where it meant embedded rows, so a vectorizer whose provider was mistyped — and which had therefore never embedded anything — could not be corrected: the function refused, claiming its chunks were "embedded with" a model that had never run. The refusal exists because vectors from two models are not comparable, and a chunk with no vector has nothing to be incomparable with. The new test in 015 is what walked into it.Test plan
014_provider_rate_limit_isolation.pl: two vectorizers on different providers sharing one fake socket that refuses one model with a 300 secondRetry-After. The healthy one must drain within half a 20 second poll interval, so a pass means the same pull that met the 429 carried on to it. Verified to fail with thebreakrestored, and verified that an earlier version of this test passed with it, which is why the poll interval and the ordering are the way they are.015_provider_unavailable_isolation.pl: one vectorizer naming a provider that does not exist, one healthy. Same-pull assertion, plus that the bad one's items staypendingwithattemptsat zero, that the log names the provider and the table, and that correcting the provider is on its own enough to drain the queue. A second half covers head-of-line blocking, with 30 rows on a bad provider committed ahead of three healthy ones against abatch_sizeof 25, in a database of its own with the poll interval at its 60 second maximum so that every wait runs to the hold-off. Verified to fail without the hold-off, and without the claim that follows it at once.005_batch_failure_backoff.plpassing, 9 assertions, including the new one.Note on the base branch
This now targets
maindirectly and carries the whole stack. The stacked PRs beneath it (#73, #74, #77, and #82 on top of this branch) were each merged into the branch below, but the bottom of the chain,token-count-consistency, had already gone intomainthrough #72 before #73 landed on it, so none of that work ever reachedmainand its issues stayed open. This branch contains every commit from those PRs, which were reviewed there, and merges cleanly intomain.Closes #25
Closes #27
Closes #75
Closes #76
Closes #81