Upgrade Notes

0.6.0

Postgres 12

If upgrading with Postgres 12, remove this line from sql/vector--0.5.1--0.6.0.sql:

ALTER TYPE vector SET (STORAGE = external);

Then run make install and ALTER EXTENSION vector UPDATE;.

Docker

The Docker image is now published in the pgvector org, and there are tags for each supported version of Postgres (rather than a latest tag).

docker pull pgvector/pgvector:pg16
# or
docker pull pgvector/pgvector:0.6.0-pg16

Also, if you’ve increased maintenance_work_mem, make sure --shm-size is at least that size to avoid an error with parallel HNSW index builds.

docker run --shm-size=1g ...