Supabase Beta January 2023

Summary

Supabase’s January 2023 beta update gathers releases across Postgres, GraphQL, Edge Functions, client libraries, image transformation, and self-hosting. The update adds pgvector, a PostgreSQL extension for storing OpenAI embeddings and performing vector similarity search, and presents Supabase Clippy, a one-week, fully open-source documentation-search MVP combining pgvector with OpenAI. pg_graphql now supports Views, Materialized Views, and Foreign Tables, while Image Transformations enable automatic WebP conversion by default, with format: origin available to opt out. Other changes include Python and C# reference documentation, pg_repack, multi-tab authentication logout through BroadcastChannel, lz4 compression, ICU locales, downloadable Edge Function source, and a DigitalOcean deployment guide using Sendgrid, Packer, and Terraform. Supabase also reports reaching 45,000 GitHub stars and a position among the top 200 most-popular repositories.

Takeaways

1. 1

   pgvector is available as a Supabase PostgreSQL extension for storing embeddings and performing vector similarity search; Supabase Clippy uses it with OpenAI in a one-week, fully open-source documentation-search MVP.

2. 2

   pg_graphql now supports Views, Materialized Views, and Foreign Tables, while Image Transformations detect WebP automatically by default; format: origin opts out of conversion.

3. 3

   Multi-tab authentication sessions now synchronize logout through the browser BroadcastChannel API, and deployed Edge Function source code can be downloaded from the CLI.