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Additional Installation Methods

Docker

docker pull pgvector/pgvector:pg17-trixie

This adds pgvector to the Postgres image (replace 17 with your Postgres server version, and run it the same way).

Supported tags are:

You can also build the image manually:

git clone --branch v0.8.1 https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector.git
cd pgvector
docker build --pull --build-arg PG_MAJOR=17 -t myuser/pgvector .

If you increase 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 ...

With Homebrew Postgres, you can use:

brew install pgvector

Note: This only adds it to the postgresql@17 and postgresql@14 formulas

pgxn install vector

Debian and Ubuntu packages are available from the PostgreSQL APT Repository. Follow the setup instructions and run:

sudo apt install postgresql-17-pgvector

Note: Replace 17 with your Postgres server version

RPM packages are available from the PostgreSQL Yum Repository. Follow the setup instructions for your distribution and run:

sudo yum install pgvector_17
# or
sudo dnf install pgvector_17

Note: Replace 17 with your Postgres server version

Install the FreeBSD package with:

pkg install postgresql17-pgvector

or the port with:

cd /usr/ports/databases/pgvector
make install

With Conda Postgres, install from conda-forge with:

conda install -c conda-forge pgvector

Download the latest release with Postgres 15+.