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From: Melanie Plageman <[email protected]>
To: Thomas Munro <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Trying out read streams in pgvector (an extension)
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:52:17 -0500
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On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM Thomas Munro <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> But for now, to fix pgvector's woes, I wonder if it might make sense
> to call this a bug in v18, and back-patch the tiniest possible change.
> Something like what I posted[2] in this thread almost two years ago.
> I don't think it really affects any core code: we use
> read_stream_reset() only in very minimal ways there (I could
> elaborate), and it's quite arguable that the existing policy is wrong
> for them too, but we'd need to confirm that and perhaps think about
> other extensions that might be using it.

If we are worried about regressing other extensions using
read_stream_reset(), we could make the read stream reset which
preserves the distance a different function in backbranches.

- Melanie

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