From 37d60c5bcdb65a8d3a070285d105a2c72a718323 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alan Woodward <romseygeek@apache.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2025 11:26:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] FlatVectorsReader.getMergeInstance() now throws IOException

---
 .../codec/vectors/es818/ES818BinaryQuantizedVectorsReader.java  | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/codec/vectors/es818/ES818BinaryQuantizedVectorsReader.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/codec/vectors/es818/ES818BinaryQuantizedVectorsReader.java
index e59b9ba7e6535..1feee9f642b32 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/codec/vectors/es818/ES818BinaryQuantizedVectorsReader.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/codec/vectors/es818/ES818BinaryQuantizedVectorsReader.java
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ private ES818BinaryQuantizedVectorsReader(ES818BinaryQuantizedVectorsReader clon
     }
 
     @Override
-    public FlatVectorsReader getMergeInstance() {
+    public FlatVectorsReader getMergeInstance() throws IOException {
         return new ES818BinaryQuantizedVectorsReader(this, rawVectorsReader.getMergeInstance());
     }