Deployment

vecs is compatible with any Postgres 13+ with the pgvector extension installed.

In the following we show we show instructions for hosting a database on Supabase and locally in docker since both are fast and free.

Supabase

Cloud Hosted

Create an account

Create a supabase account at https://app.supabase.com/sign-up.

Create a new project

Select New Project

Complete the prompts. Be sure to remember or write down your password as we’ll need that when connecting with vecs.

Connection Info

On the project page, navigate to Settings > Database > Database Settings

and substitue those fields into the conenction string

postgresql://<user>:<password>@<host>:<port>/<db_name>

i.e.

postgres://postgres:[YOUR PASSWORD]@db.cvykdyhlwwwojivopztl.supabase.co:5432/postgres

Keep that connection string secret and safe. Its your DB_CONNECTION in the quickstart guide,

Local

You can also use Supabase locally on your machine. Doing so will keep your project setup consistent when deploying to hosted Supabase.

Install the CLI

To install the CLI, use the relevant system instructions below

macOS

brew install supabase/tap/supabase

Start the Project

From your project directory, create the supabase/ sub-directory required for supabase projects by running:

supabase init

next start the application using:

supabase start

which will download the latest Supabase containers and provide a URL to each service:

Seeding data supabase/seed.sql...me...
Started supabase local development setup.

         API URL: http://localhost:54321
     GraphQL URL: http://localhost:54321/graphql/v1
          DB URL: postgresql://postgres:postgres@localhost:54322/postgres
      Studio URL: http://localhost:54323
    Inbucket URL: http://localhost:54324
      JWT secret: super-secret-jwt-token-with-at-least-32-characters-long
        anon key: eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJzdXBhYmFz
service_role key: eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cClJzdJsyH-qQwv8Hdp7fsn3W0YpN81IU

The service we need for vecs is DB URL. Note it down for use as our DB_CONNECTION

postgresql://<user>:<password>@<host>:<port>/<db_name>

For more info on running a local Supabase project, checkout the Supabase CLI guide

Docker

Install docker if you don’t have it already at Get Docker

Start the Postgres Container

Next, run

docker run --rm -d \
    --name vecs_hosting_guide \
    -p 5019:5432 \
    -e POSTGRES_DB=vecs_db \
    -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=password \
    -e POSTGRES_USER=postgres \
    supabase/postgres:15.1.0.74

Connection Info

Substitue the values from the previous section into the postgres conenction string

postgresql://<user>:<password>@<host>:<port>/<db_name>

i.e.

postgresql://postgres:password@localhost:5019/vecs_db

Keep that connection string secret and safe. Its your DB_CONNECTION in the quickstart guide