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"Zacher, Stacy" <szacher@mcw.edu> writes:
> We are having issues getting the pgvector extension to work in a database.

This:

> dbdev=# create extension if not exists vector;
> ERROR:  type "vector" already exists

indicates you've got some type named "vector" in that database
already.  It didn't come from pgvector, so where did it come from?

			regards, tom lane