issues adding machine learning data to postgres
Setup - unraid using official immich container, spaceinvaderone postres and official redis
so i have it up and running, even with distributed machine learning. however once it completes i hit 'missing' to make sure everything got processed but it wants to process everything again. When i check the logs i see
[Nest] 240 - 08/30/2025, 8:36:26 PM ERROR [Microservices:{"source":"upload","id":"3ff72644-2bab-4c38-82d1-f53316877438"}] Unable to run job handler (SmartSearch): PostgresError: pgvecto.rs: Bad literal.
INFORMATION: hint = Bad character at position 0
PostgresError: pgvecto.rs: Bad literal.
INFORMATION: hint = Bad character at position 0
at ErrorResponse (/app/immich/server/node_modules/.pnpm/postgres@3.4.7/node_modules/postgres/cjs/src/connection.js:794:26)
at handle (/app/immich/server/node_modules/.pnpm/postgres@3.4.7/node_modules/postgres/cjs/src/connection.js:480:6)
at Socket.data (/app/immich/server/node_modules/.pnpm/postgres@3.4.7/node_modules/postgres/cjs/src/connection.js:315:9)
at Socket.emit (node:events:518:28)
at addChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:561:12)
at readableAddChunkPushByteMode (node:internal/streams/readable:512:3)
at Readable.push (node:internal/streams/readable:392:5)
at TCP.onStreamRead (node:internal/stream_base_commons:189:23)
im guessing the data isnt written to the database so thats why it always wants to reprocess everything3 Replies
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If this ticket can be closed you can use the /close command, and re-open it later if needed.I haven't seen this error for quite a while lol
IIRC it means you're running an outdated ML container
You also still seem to be running the old pgvecto.rs extension
doh looks like id pinned my version during testing it and forgot to set it back to latest. seems to be working now for the ML containers i have anyway. is that linked to the pgvecto.rs too?