PgVectorize enables you to create vector embeddings from any data that you already have stored in PostgreSQL. You can get more background information in the blog post announcing this feature, as well as the "how we built it" post going into the details of the design.
To create vector embeddings, simply attach PgVectorize to any PostgreSQL table to automatically sync that table's data with a set of embeddings stored in Timescale Vector. For example, say you have a blog table defined in the following way:
import psycopg2from langchain.docstore.document import Documentfrom langchain.text_splitter import CharacterTextSplitterfrom timescale_vector import client, pgvectorizerfrom langchain.embeddings.openai import OpenAIEmbeddingsfrom langchain.vectorstores.timescalevector import TimescaleVectorfrom datetime import timedelta
with psycopg2.connect(service_url) as conn:with conn.cursor() as cursor:cursor.execute('''CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS blog (id INT PRIMARY KEY GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY,title TEXT NOT NULL,author TEXT NOT NULL,contents TEXT NOT NULL,category TEXT NOT NULL,published_time TIMESTAMPTZ NULL --NULL if not yet published);''')
You can insert some data as follows:
with psycopg2.connect(service_url) as conn:with conn.cursor() as cursor:cursor.execute('''INSERT INTO blog (title, author, contents, category, published_time) VALUES ('First Post', 'Matvey Arye', 'some super interesting content about cats.', 'AI', '2021-01-01');''')
Now, say you want to embed these blogs in Timescale Vector. First, you
need to define an embed_and_write
function that takes a set of blog
posts, creates the embeddings, and writes them into TimescaleVector. For
example, if using LangChain, it could look something like the following.
def get_document(blog):text_splitter = CharacterTextSplitter(chunk_size=1000,chunk_overlap=200,)docs = []for chunk in text_splitter.split_text(blog['contents']):content = f"Author {blog['author']}, title: {blog['title']}, contents:{chunk}"metadata = {"id": str(client.uuid_from_time(blog['published_time'])),"blog_id": blog['id'],"author": blog['author'],"category": blog['category'],"published_time": blog['published_time'].isoformat(),}docs.append(Document(page_content=content, metadata=metadata))return docsdef embed_and_write(blog_instances, vectorizer):embedding = OpenAIEmbeddings()vector_store = TimescaleVector(collection_name="blog_embedding",service_url=service_url,embedding=embedding,time_partition_interval=timedelta(days=30),)# delete old embeddings for all ids in the work queue. locked_id is a special column that is set to the primary key of the table being# embedded. For items that are deleted, it is the only key that is set.metadata_for_delete = [{"blog_id": blog['locked_id']} for blog in blog_instances]vector_store.delete_by_metadata(metadata_for_delete)documents = []for blog in blog_instances:# skip blogs that are not published yet, or are deleted (in which case the column is NULL)if blog['published_time'] != None:documents.extend(get_document(blog))if len(documents) == 0:returntexts = [d.page_content for d in documents]metadatas = [d.metadata for d in documents]ids = [d.metadata["id"] for d in documents]vector_store.add_texts(texts, metadatas, ids)
Then, all you have to do is run the following code in a scheduled job (cron job, Lambda job, etc):
# this job should be run on a schedulevectorizer = pgvectorizer.Vectorize(service_url, 'blog')while vectorizer.process(embed_and_write) > 0:pass
Every time that job runs, it syncs the table with your embeddings. It
syncs all inserts, updates, and deletes to an embeddings table called
blog_embedding
.
Now, you can simply search the embeddings as follows (again, using LangChain in the example):
embedding = OpenAIEmbeddings()vector_store = TimescaleVector(collection_name="blog_embedding",service_url=service_url,embedding=embedding,time_partition_interval=timedelta(days=30),)res = vector_store.similarity_search_with_score("Blogs about cats")res
[(Document(page_content='Author Matvey Arye, title: First Post, contents:some super interesting content about cats.', metadata={'id': '4a784000-4bc4-11eb-855a-06302dbc8ce7', 'author': 'Matvey Arye', 'blog_id': 1, 'category': 'AI', 'published_time': '2021-01-01T00:00:00+00:00'}),0.12595687795193833)]
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