Dataprep Microservice with PGVector
July 25, 2025 ยท View on GitHub
Table of contents
๐1. Start Microservice with Docker
1.1 Start PGVector
Please refer to this readme.
1.2 Setup Environment Variables
export PG_CONNECTION_STRING=postgresql+psycopg2://testuser:testpwd@${your_ip}:5432/vectordb
export INDEX_NAME=${your_index_name}
export TEI_EMBEDDING_ENDPOINT=${your_tei_embedding_endpoint}
export HF_TOKEN=${your_hf_api_token}
1.3 Build Docker Image
cd GenAIComps
docker build -t opea/dataprep:latest --build-arg https_proxy=$https_proxy --build-arg http_proxy=$http_proxy -f comps/dataprep/src/Dockerfile .
1.4 Run Docker with CLI (Option A)
docker run --name="dataprep-pgvector" -p 6007:6007 --ipc=host -e http_proxy=$http_proxy -e https_proxy=$https_proxy -e PG_CONNECTION_STRING=$PG_CONNECTION_STRING -e INDEX_NAME=$INDEX_NAME -e EMBED_MODEL=${EMBED_MODEL} -e TEI_EMBEDDING_ENDPOINT=$TEI_EMBEDDING_ENDPOINT -e HF_TOKEN=${HF_TOKEN} -e DATAPREP_COMPONENT_NAME="OPEA_DATAPREP_PGVECTOR" opea/dataprep:latest
1.5 Run with Docker Compose (Option B)
cd comps/dataprep/deployment/docker_compose
docker compose -f compose_pgvector.yaml up -d
๐2. Consume Microservice
2.1 Consume Upload API
Once document preparation microservice for PGVector is started, user can use below command to invoke the microservice to convert the document to embedding and save to the database.
curl -X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"path":"/path/to/document"}' \
http://localhost:6007/v1/dataprep/ingest
2.2 Consume get API
To get uploaded file structures, use the following command:
curl -X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
http://localhost:6007/v1/dataprep/get
Then you will get the response JSON like this:
[
{
"name": "uploaded_file_1.txt",
"id": "uploaded_file_1.txt",
"type": "File",
"parent": ""
},
{
"name": "uploaded_file_2.txt",
"id": "uploaded_file_2.txt",
"type": "File",
"parent": ""
}
]
2.3 Consume delete API
To delete uploaded file/link, use the following command.
The file_path here should be the id get from /v1/dataprep/get API.
# delete link
curl -X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"file_path": "https://www.ces.tech/.txt"}' \
http://localhost:6007/v1/dataprep/delete
# delete file
curl -X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"file_path": "uploaded_file_1.txt"}' \
http://localhost:6007/v1/dataprep/delete
# delete all files and links
curl -X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"file_path": "all"}' \
http://localhost:6007/v1/dataprep/delete