Add additional metadata to existing embeddings in pinecone

[info4]

Hello,
Say i already have a large number of embeddings in my vector database. These embeddings have say 5 metadata each. If i want to add a sixth metadata to these vectors do i have to recreate these embeddings ($$)?

or is there an easy way to add another metadata to the embeddings in pinecone?

[tim]

Absolutely, you would just need to gather the ids of each vector to update and hit the update endpoint - specifically with the setMetadata value. It wont touch the vector, just the metadata.

You can only hit this one id at a time so I highly recommend concurrency of the requests and try to keep the batch size around 500. Speaking from experience doing this with VectorAdmin.

Update

[info4]

Thank you Tim.
So if i have say more than 1000 vectors to update, i have to do this one by one?

Sreenath

[tim]

Unfortunately, yes - that’s why i recommend doing multi-threading/concurrency so you arent waiting per-request