Immich•4mo ago

Facial Recognition Failing - Postgres error

Very new install, less than a few weeks old, running on Kubernetes. From initial install I've been unable to run the facial recognition and receiving this error:

```
[Nest] 7 - 09/09/2025, 3:17:02 PM ERROR [Microservices:{"id":"81bbaba6-5adf-42ff-aa31-19c682fcb250"}] Unable to run job handler (AssetDetectFaces): PostgresError: pgvecto.rs: The index is not existing in the background worker.
ADVICE: Drop or rebuild the index.
PostgresError: pgvecto.rs: The index is not existing in the background worker.
ADVICE: Drop or rebuild the index.
at ErrorResponse (/usr/src/app/server/node_modules/.pnpm/postgres@3.4.7/node_modules/postgres/cjs/src/connection.js:794:26)
at handle (/usr/src/app/server/node_modules/.pnpm/postgres@3.4.7/node_modules/postgres/cjs/src/connection.js:480:6)
at Socket.data (/usr/src/app/server/node_modules/.pnpm/postgres@3.4.7/node_modules/postgres/cjs/src/connection.js:315:9)
at Socket.emit (node:events:519:28)
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)
Query failed : {
durationMs: 1.3347509987652302,
error: PostgresError: pgvecto.rs: The index is not existing in the background worker.
ADVICE: Drop or rebuild the index.
at ErrorResponse (/usr/src/app/server/node_modules/.pnpm/postgres@3.4.7/node_modules/postgres/cjs/src/connection.js:794:26)
at handle (/usr/src/app/server/node_modules/.pnpm/postgres@3.4.7/node_modules/postgres/cjs/src/connection.js:480:6)
at Socket.data (/usr/src/app/server/node_modules/.pnpm/postgres@3.4.7/node_modules/postgres/cjs/src/connection.js:315:9)
at Socket.emit (node:events:519:28)
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) {
severity_local: 'ERROR',
severity: 'ERROR',
code: 'XX000',
file: 'error.rs',
line: '7'
},

Immich•9/9/25, 3:37 PM

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bo0tzz•9/9/25, 3:39 PM

If it's a new install, why are you running pgvecto.rs?

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ElidyrOP•9/9/25, 3:42 PM

I'm not sure. I'm using a helm chart for version 1.141.1, that's how it was set up from the get go

ElidyrOP•9/9/25, 3:45 PM

may be an issue to take up with the chart maintainer then

bo0tzz•9/9/25, 3:45 PM

That's me

bo0tzz•9/9/25, 3:45 PM

The postgres included in the chart shouldn't be used anymore

bo0tzz•9/9/25, 3:45 PM

It's deprecated and will be removed

ElidyrOP•9/9/25, 3:46 PM

i am using cnpg

bo0tzz•9/9/25, 3:50 PM

How did you decide what image to use for it?

ElidyrOP•9/9/25, 3:59 PM

ah, sorry. its the truecharts chart (yes I know they're not typically favored). Looks like I'll need to take it up with them, figure out how to change the image, or use the official

bo0tzz•9/9/25, 3:59 PM

ah, if you're using truecharts then I can't help with that

ElidyrOP•9/9/25, 4:00 PM

yeah no worries, didn't realize it was the pg image

ImmichAPP•9/9/25, 4:32 PM

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