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title: "Supabase Beta January 2023"
description: "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."
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# Supabase Beta January 2023

[Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase) · ant\_wilson · Feb 8, 2023

**Type:** Announcement

## 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.

## Context

The post records Supabase’s January 2023 beta releases and community updates, covering new Postgres extensions, GraphQL capabilities, Edge Functions changes, client documentation, image transformations, self-hosting guidance, and project milestones.

## Approach / What changed

The update lists product changes and supporting resources, including pgvector integration with OpenAI for Supabase Clippy, expanded pg\_graphql database-object support, default WebP conversion for Image Transformations, authentication and database improvements, Edge Function CLI support, and a DigitalOcean self-hosting guide using Sendgrid, Packer, and Terraform.

## Takeaways

- 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.
- pg\_graphql now supports Views, Materialized Views, and Foreign Tables, while Image Transformations detect WebP automatically by default; format: origin opts out of conversion.
- Multi-tab authentication sessions now synchronize logout through the browser BroadcastChannel API, and deployed Edge Function source code can be downloaded from the CLI.

**Tags:** [Authentication](https://yomu.fyi/topic/authentication), [Deployment](https://yomu.fyi/topic/deployment), [GraphQL](https://yomu.fyi/topic/graphql), [Open Source](https://yomu.fyi/topic/open-source), [Postgres](https://yomu.fyi/topic/postgres)

- Source: [Supabase](https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-beta-january-2023)
- Source URL: https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-beta-january-2023
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-08-29T01:16:23.029Z

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