kion-vectorstore 0.2.3

Kion Consulting: Postgres (pgvector) vector database file management library and web GUI.

kion_vectorstore

License: MIT

Overview kion_vectorstore is a Python library and GUI application for managing vector stores in PostgreSQL (with pgvector). It lets you upload ONLY PDFs or .txt files, organize them into collections, perform semantic search, and query them via an OpenAI-powered chat UI. You can also delete files or whole collections from a simple web interface.

Features

• Upload PDFs and text files
• Organize documents into named collections
• OpenAI-powered semantic search across selected collections
• Delete individual files or entire empty collections
• Use functions programmatically in Python
• Simple Flask-based web UI

Prerequisites

• Python 3.8+
• PostgreSQL installed locally or reachable on your network
• pgvector extension enabled in your database See: https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector

Quick Start

1. Install the package pip install kion-vectorstore

2. Create a .env file (once per project) using the CLI env-init --path "<-your folder name->"

   • This folder is MANDATORY as it will store your .env file: (Not entering a folder name or storing the .env file directly in the project folder will result in errors)
   • Enter ONLY the name of the folder (DO NOT ENTER A PATH)
   • To overwrite existing .env, simply add the --force flag: e.g. env-init --path "env" --force

3. Fill in your .env OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-... OPENAI_MODEL=gpt-4o-mini OPENAI_EMBEDDING_MODEL=text-embedding-3-small PGHOST=localhost PGUSER=postgres PGPASSWORD=yourpassword PGDATABASE=yourdb PGPORT=5432

4. Launch the web app

   • Locate the "app.py" in the folder where you store your .env file
   • Run the "app.py" file The app will open http://127.0.0.1:5000/ in your browser.

Using the Web UI

• File Loader tab: upload .txt or .pdf files to a collection (set chunk size/overlap)
• Remove Files tab: select a collection, list files, and delete
• Chat tab: pick collections and ask questions; the assistant answers using only your documents

Programmatic Use - Use as library Initialize config once in your Python script, then use the plugin: from kion_vectorstore.pgvector_plugin import PGVectorPlugin from kion_vectorstore.config import Config from kion_vectorstore.file_loader import FileLoader from kion_vectorstore.text_file_loader import KionTextFileLoader from kion_vectorstore.pdf_file_loader import KionPDFFileLoader

initialize_config(".env") embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings() # uses OPENAI_API_KEY from .env file

Example Usage: db = PGVectorPlugin(embedding_model=embeddings) print(db.list_collections())

Notes

• This package ships a .env template inside the package. The env-init CLI copies it to your project.
• Static HTML files are served from within the installed package; you do not need to copy them.

Troubleshooting

• If you see "Configuration has not been initialized", ensure your .env exists and initialize_config has been called (the web app does this automatically).
• Ensure the pgvector extension is installed in your database
• The kion_pg tables are created on first insert.

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