Record and repair embedding model drift by dpage · Pull Request #77 · pgEdge/pgedge-vectorizer

dpage · 2026-09-09T13:45:10Z

Summary

A vectorizer that inherits follows pgedge_vectorizer.model as 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, and text-embedding-3-small to text-embedding-ada-002 is 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:

Every chunk 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. 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's vectorizer_status view 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(). Unlike set_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

The upgrade script has to alter existing chunk tables itself. 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.pl now 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_drift regression 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 to vector(768); token_count and sparse_embedding intact 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 that reembed() then queues nothing.
Full suite green on PostgreSQL 18.4: 23 pg_regress tests, 90 TAP tests.
Upgrade path exercised by hand as well: 1.1 install with a vectorizer and chunks, upgraded, chunk table gains both columns.

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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 main because CI only runs on PRs based on main, master or develop.

Closes #75

The chunking code in C has always sized chunks with a four-characters-per-token estimate that rounds up, whilst the three plpgsql paths that actually write the token_count column open-coded the same estimate as length(chunk_text) / 4, which truncates. The two therefore disagreed by a token on most chunks, and on anything shorter than four characters the plpgsql paths stored a zero that the BM25 scoring path in worker.c then had to clamp back up to one. Since token_count feeds the BM25 document-length normalisation, by way of AVG(token_count) in bm25.c and the per-chunk value in worker.c, hybrid search scored chunks written by the trigger slightly differently from chunks written by the C chunker. Expose the existing C counter as pgedge_vectorizer.count_tokens(text) and call it from enable_vectorization(), vectorization_trigger() and recreate_chunks(), so that there is one definition of the rule rather than two. It is declared STABLE rather than IMMUTABLE deliberately: the estimate is defined in terms of pgedge_vectorizer.model, which does not matter whilst the counter ignores the model, but would quietly invalidate an expression index or a cached plan the moment it stops doing so. Existing chunk tables are left alone. The stored values are an approximation either way, and rewriting every chunk table to correct a single token is not a trade worth making on upgrade. This is the first change for 1.2, so the extension version moves on and sql/pgedge_vectorizer--1.1--1.2.sql carries the upgrade; the 1.1 scripts are untouched.

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.

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

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The extension is upgraded to version 1.2. It adds per-vectorizer provider and model overrides, embedding provenance, model-drift status reporting, guarded model changes, and re-embedding functions. Provider callbacks and worker batching now use explicit provider/model pairs. Token counting is exposed through SQL and shared by chunking paths. Cleanup, sparse embedding, BM25, queue handling, and hybrid search are updated. Documentation and regression tests cover upgrades, model changes, provider routing, token counts, and provenance.

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Quote 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. regclass parses that text as schema.table, so the lookup fails and SPI_execute() raises, which aborts the batch before any item is charged. Line 2259 already repairs the same defect in update_embedding().
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 					ret_dim = SPI_execute(psprintf(
 						"SELECT atttypmod FROM pg_attribute "
-						"WHERE attrelid = '%s'::regclass "
+						"WHERE attrelid = %s::regclass "
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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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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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codacy-production Bot commented Sep 9, 2026 •

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