diff --git a/lib/pgvector.dart b/lib/pgvector.dart
index 4929ab7..748e282 100644
--- a/lib/pgvector.dart
+++ b/lib/pgvector.dart
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ export 'src/halfvec.dart' show HalfVector;
 export 'src/pgvector.dart' show pgvector;
 export 'src/sparsevec.dart' show SparseVector;
 export 'src/vector.dart' show Vector;
+export 'src/postgres.dart' show PgvectorEncoder;
diff --git a/lib/src/postgres.dart b/lib/src/postgres.dart
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e6b7b64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/src/postgres.dart
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+import 'dart:convert';
+import 'package:postgres/postgres.dart';
+import 'bit.dart';
+import 'halfvec.dart';
+import 'sparsevec.dart';
+import 'vector.dart';
+
+EncodedValue? PgvectorEncoder(TypedValue input, CodecContext context) {
+  final value = input.value;
+
+  if (value is Vector) {
+    final v = value as Vector;
+    return EncodedValue.binary(v.toBinary());
+  }
+
+  if (value is HalfVector) {
+    final v = value as HalfVector;
+    return EncodedValue.text(utf8.encode(v.toString()));
+  }
+
+  if (value is Bit) {
+    final v = value as Bit;
+    return EncodedValue.binary(v.toBinary());
+  }
+
+  if (value is SparseVector) {
+    final v = value as SparseVector;
+    return EncodedValue.binary(v.toBinary());
+  }
+
+  return null;
+}
diff --git a/pubspec.yaml b/pubspec.yaml
index a8b62ee..9e18610 100644
--- a/pubspec.yaml
+++ b/pubspec.yaml
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ environment:
   sdk: ^3.0.0
 
 dependencies:
+  postgres: ^3.4.0
 
 dev_dependencies:
   lints: ^2.0.0
-  postgres: ^3.0.0
   test: ^1.21.0
diff --git a/test/postgres_test.dart b/test/postgres_test.dart
index 3f10b91..8a8a837 100644
--- a/test/postgres_test.dart
+++ b/test/postgres_test.dart
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@ void main() {
             port: 5432,
             database: 'pgvector_dart_test',
             username: Platform.environment['USER']),
-        settings: ConnectionSettings(sslMode: SslMode.disable));
+        settings: ConnectionSettings(
+            sslMode: SslMode.disable,
+            typeRegistry: TypeRegistry(encoders: [PgvectorEncoder])));
 
     await connection.execute('CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS vector');
     await connection.execute('DROP TABLE IF EXISTS items');
@@ -23,25 +25,25 @@ void main() {
         Sql.named(
             'INSERT INTO items (embedding, half_embedding, binary_embedding, sparse_embedding) VALUES (@embedding1, @half_embedding1, @binary_embedding1, @sparse_embedding1), (@embedding2, @half_embedding2, @binary_embedding2, @sparse_embedding2), (@embedding3, @half_embedding3, @binary_embedding3, @sparse_embedding3)'),
         parameters: {
-          'embedding1': Vector([1, 1, 1]).toString(),
-          'embedding2': Vector([2, 2, 2]).toString(),
-          'embedding3': Vector([1, 1, 2]).toString(),
-          'half_embedding1': HalfVector([1, 1, 1]).toString(),
-          'half_embedding2': HalfVector([2, 2, 2]).toString(),
-          'half_embedding3': HalfVector([1, 1, 2]).toString(),
+          'embedding1': Vector([1, 1, 1]),
+          'embedding2': Vector([2, 2, 2]),
+          'embedding3': Vector([1, 1, 2]),
+          'half_embedding1': HalfVector([1, 1, 1]),
+          'half_embedding2': HalfVector([2, 2, 2]),
+          'half_embedding3': HalfVector([1, 1, 2]),
           'binary_embedding1': '000',
           'binary_embedding2': '101',
           'binary_embedding3': '111',
-          'sparse_embedding1': SparseVector([1, 1, 1]).toString(),
-          'sparse_embedding2': SparseVector([2, 2, 2]).toString(),
-          'sparse_embedding3': SparseVector([1, 1, 2]).toString()
+          'sparse_embedding1': SparseVector([1, 1, 1]),
+          'sparse_embedding2': SparseVector([2, 2, 2]),
+          'sparse_embedding3': SparseVector([1, 1, 2])
         });
 
     List<List<dynamic>> results = await connection.execute(
         Sql.named(
             'SELECT id, embedding, binary_embedding, sparse_embedding FROM items ORDER BY embedding <-> @embedding LIMIT 5'),
         parameters: {
-          'embedding': Vector([1, 1, 1]).toString()
+          'embedding': Vector([1, 1, 1])
         });
     expect(results.map((r) => r[0]), equals([1, 3, 2]));
     expect(Vector.fromBinary(results[1][1].bytes), equals(Vector([1, 1, 2])));