Re: Trying out read streams in pgvector (an extension)

On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> 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