hibernate-vector integration (through version management OR extension)

[lordofthejars]

Description

Currently (or at least what I've found), to use the hibernate-vector dependency, you need to add the version of Hibernate manually.

<dependency>
            <groupId>org.hibernate.orm</groupId>
            <artifactId>hibernate-vector</artifactId>
            <version>6.4.7.Final</version> <!-- Sets to Hibernate version used by Quarkus -->
        </dependency>

This means you need to explore which Hibernate version is transitively imported by Panache and then hardcoded in the pom.
So, if I update the Quarkus version to a newer version, and the Hibernate version used by Panache is updated too, then my pom might have a divergence in versions.

Implementation ideas

Create an extension that just imports the correct hibernate-vector or a Panache bom so the version of Hibernate is implicitly set.

[quarkus-bot]

/cc @gsmet (hibernate-orm), @yrodiere (hibernate-orm)

[gsmet]

If it works out of the box, we can just include it in the BOM. Does it though? :)

[lordofthejars]

Yes it works, the only thing is that you need to know beforehand the Hibernate version used by Panache.

[yrodiere]

Right, we don't necessarily need a separate extension, a BOM entry would be fine as a first step.

The patch is trivial, testing... not so much. I'd need a separate integration test module just for this... including a native build. @gsmet are you fine with that?

[yrodiere]

The patch is trivial, testing... not so much. I'd need a separate integration test module just for this... including a native build. @gsmet are you fine with that?

Let's assume @gsmet is fine with that and add an IT module for pgvector, at least :)

Note we'll need to document this as supported as well.