# Is there a recommended way to get pgvector on RDS?

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**Created:** [August 23, 2023, 3:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-recommended-way-to-get-pgvector-on-rds/288641 "2023-08-23T15:58:17Z")
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### Author: ![Will\_Grosett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a183cd/32.png) [@Will\_Grosett](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Will_Grosett)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2025, 4:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-recommended-way-to-get-pgvector-on-rds/288641/11 "2025-09-01T16:18:04Z")

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For the benefit of others - to get pg\_vector on AWS RDS 13.x I ran the following as admin in pgadmin:

CREATE EXTENSION vector;

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