Code-review follow-ups on the pgvector spike:
- self-similarity sanity check now compares to the seed's own self-distance
(0 for cosine/L2, ~-1 for inner product <#>) instead of a hardcoded ~0, so it
no longer misfires if Immich ever uses a vector_ip_ops index (correctness P3).
- mark the deliberate raw-SQLite read in the probe as a spike-only exception and
add an M1.5 TODO that the real pgvector reader belongs in shared/photoflow/immich
and SQLite access in shared/photoflow/core (project-standards P2 x2).
- document join_and_coverage's return shape; extract a _pct() helper to dedupe the
coverage-percentage formatting (maintainability P3 x2).
Findings doc refreshed from the latest live run (coverage now ~46%, re-run ongoing).
scripts/pgvector_spike.py probes Immich's Postgres read-only (session-level
read-only guard) and answers the M1.5 prerequisites against the live DB:
catalog-discovered embedding table/column, vector dimension, distance operator
(from the index opclass), the embedding->asset FK join, and coverage over the
IMAGE population. Discovers the asset table name from the FK (asset, not the
legacy assets) rather than hardcoding it, so it survives Immich version drift.
Findings (this Immich version): smart_search.embedding, 1152-dim, cosine <=>
(vector_cosine_ops), assetId->asset.id join clean (0 orphans), ~44% image
coverage (CLIP re-run in progress). Doc is M1.5's version-pinned contract.