diff --git a/memgpt/connectors/db.py b/memgpt/connectors/db.py
index 4e3a662d..eec7e0ac 100644
--- a/memgpt/connectors/db.py
+++ b/memgpt/connectors/db.py
@@ -351,6 +351,9 @@ class PostgresStorageConnector(SQLStorageConnector):
     # TODO: this should probably eventually be moved into a parent DB class
 
     def __init__(self, table_type: str, agent_config: Optional[AgentConfig] = None):
+
+        from pgvector.sqlalchemy import Vector
+
         super().__init__(table_type=table_type, agent_config=agent_config)
 
         # get storage URI
@@ -371,6 +374,10 @@ class PostgresStorageConnector(SQLStorageConnector):
         # create table
         self.db_model = get_db_model(self.table_name, table_type)
         self.engine = create_engine(self.uri)
+        for c in self.db_model.__table__.columns:
+            print(c.name, c.type)
+            if c.name == "embedding":
+                assert isinstance(c.type, Vector), f"Embedding column must be of type Vector, got {c.type}"
         Base.metadata.create_all(self.engine)  # Create the table if it doesn't exist
         self.Session = sessionmaker(bind=self.engine)
         self.Session().execute(text("CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS vector"))  # Enables the vector extension
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 24eaddac..e455ef60 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -5016,4 +5016,4 @@ server = ["fastapi", "uvicorn", "websockets"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "<3.12,>=3.9"
-content-hash = "bd3fce0f7b5d6ef093cee74cbe9772344b4c576313cad970d48411af5a327dc5"
+content-hash = "8bdeced6b44f57a5a1bc544d1615205cf002505f173a3561e69355df863a4f98"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 76f3a6df..c9567926 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ pydantic = "^2.5.2"
 pyautogen = {version = "0.2.0", optional = true}
 html2text = "^2020.1.16"
 docx2txt = "^0.8"
-sqlalchemy = "^2.0.23"
+sqlalchemy = "^2.0.25"
 pexpect = {version = "^4.9.0", optional = true}
 
 [tool.poetry.extras]