# Changelog 2023 08 03

### On-disk support for HNSW indexes with pg\_embedding

Neon's `pg_embedding` extension, which enables graph-based vector similarity search in Postgres using the Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) algorithm (HNSW), now persists HNSW indexes to disk. In the previous `pg_embedding` version (0.1.0 and earlier), indexes resided in memory.

Additionally, `pg_embedding` now supports cosine and Manhattan distance metrics.

- Cosine distance

  ```sql
  CREATE INDEX ON documents USING hnsw(embedding ann_cos_ops) WITH (dims=3, m=3, efconstruction=5, efsearch=5);
  SELECT id FROM documents ORDER BY embedding <=> array[3,3,3] LIMIT 1;
  ```

- Manhattan distance

  ```sql
  CREATE INDEX ON documents USING hnsw(embedding ann_manhattan_ops) WITH (dims=3, m=3, efconstruction=5, efsearch=5);
  SELECT id FROM documents ORDER BY embedding <~> array[3,3,3] LIMIT 1;
  ```

Also, be sure to check out the new [Neon AI page](/guides/postgres-ai-ai-intro) on our website, and our [docs](/guides/postgres-ai-ai-intro), which include links to new [AI example applications](/guides/postgres-ai-ai-intro#example-applications) built with Neon Serverless Postgres.

## Related pages

- [AI tools for Agents](./ai-agents-on-neon-index.md)
- [APIs & SDKs](./apis-sdks-index.md)
- [Changelog](../changelog.md)
- [Integrating with Neon](./building-on-neon-index.md)
- [Lakebase Postgres](./postgres-index.md)
- [Managed Better Auth](./auth-index.md)
- [More](./more-index.md)
- [Neon AI Gateway](./ai-gateway-index.md)
- [Neon community](./community-index.md)
- [Neon documentation](./neon-docs-index.md)

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