diff --git a/getting-started/nodejs-setup.md b/getting-started/nodejs-setup.md
index 905781f..1a91fd5 100644
--- a/getting-started/nodejs-setup.md
+++ b/getting-started/nodejs-setup.md
@@ -62,48 +62,51 @@ const { MongoClient } = require('mongodb');
 const uri = 'mongodb://<YOUR_USERNAME>:<YOUR_PASSWORD>@localhost:10260/?tls=true&tlsAllowInvalidCertificates=true';
 const client = new MongoClient(uri);
 
-async function connect() {
-  try {
-    await client.connect();
-    const db = client.db('your_database');
-    return db;
-  } catch (error) {
-    console.error('Connection error:', error);
-    throw error;
-  }
+async function main() {
+  await client.connect();
+  const db = client.db('your_database');
+  console.log('connected');
+  return db;
 }
+
+main().catch((error) => {
+  console.error('Connection error:', error);
+  process.exit(1);
+});
 ```
 
 ## Basic Operations
 
-1. Creating collections
-   ```javascript
-   const collection = db.collection('your_collection');
-   ```
-
-2. Document operations
+The operations below all run inside `main()`, after `const db = client.db(...)` above.
+`await` is only valid inside an `async` function, and `db` only exists in that scope —
+running these at the top level of a file gives `ReferenceError: db is not defined`.
 
-   ```javascript
-   const users = db.collection('users');
+```javascript
+async function main() {
+  await client.connect();
+  const db = client.db('your_database');
+  const users = db.collection('users');
 
-   await users.insertOne({ name: 'John Doe', email: 'john@example.com', createdAt: new Date() });
-   await users.insertMany([
-     { name: 'Jane Smith', email: 'jane@example.com' },
-     { name: 'Bob Johnson', email: 'bob@example.com' },
-   ]);
+  await users.insertOne({ name: 'John Doe', email: 'john@example.com', createdAt: new Date() });
+  await users.insertMany([
+    { name: 'Jane Smith', email: 'jane@example.com' },
+    { name: 'Bob Johnson', email: 'bob@example.com' },
+  ]);
 
-   await users.updateOne({ name: 'John Doe' }, { $set: { status: 'active' } });
-   console.log(await users.findOne({ name: 'John Doe' }));
-   console.log(await users.countDocuments());
+  await users.updateOne({ name: 'John Doe' }, { $set: { status: 'active' } });
+  console.log(await users.findOne({ name: 'John Doe' }));
+  console.log(await users.countDocuments());
 
-   await users.deleteOne({ name: 'Bob Johnson' });
-   ```
+  await users.deleteOne({ name: 'Bob Johnson' });
 
-   Always close the client when the process is done:
+  await client.close();
+}
 
-   ```javascript
-   await client.close();
-   ```
+main().catch((error) => {
+  console.error(error);
+  process.exit(1);
+});
+```
 
 ## Beyond CRUD
 
diff --git a/getting-started/python-setup.md b/getting-started/python-setup.md
index f9eb5da..2515211 100644
--- a/getting-started/python-setup.md
+++ b/getting-started/python-setup.md
@@ -185,7 +185,32 @@ DocumentDB Local accepts TLS connections on the gateway port and requires authen
 3. Vector search
 
    `$vectorSearch` is an aggregation stage and must be the first stage in the
-   pipeline — it does not work inside `find()`.
+   pipeline — it does not work inside `find()`. It also requires a vector index
+   on the field, or the query fails with
+   `Similarity index was not found for a vector similarity search query`.
+
+   Create the index once:
+
+   ```python
+   db.command({
+       'createIndexes': 'your_collection',
+       'indexes': [
+           {
+               'name': 'embeddings_idx',
+               'key': {'embeddings': 'cosmosSearch'},
+               'cosmosSearchOptions': {
+                   'kind': 'vector-ivf',
+                   'numLists': 100,
+                   'similarity': 'COS',
+                   'dimensions': 3
+               }
+           }
+       ]
+   })
+   ```
+
+   `dimensions` must match the length of the vectors you store and query. Three keeps
+   the example short; real embeddings are typically 384, 768, or 1536 wide.
 
    ```python
    results = collection.aggregate([
diff --git a/postgres-api/index.md b/postgres-api/index.md
index 4b526e1..758e488 100644
--- a/postgres-api/index.md
+++ b/postgres-api/index.md
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 ---
 title: Components
-description: Learn about pg_documentdb_core, pg_documentdb, and pg_documentdb_gw — the PostgreSQL extensions that enable BSON support, document operations, and MongoDB wire protocol compatibility in Postgres.
+description: Learn about pg_documentdb_core, pg_documentdb, and pg_documentdb_gw — the two PostgreSQL extensions and the gateway that enable BSON support, document operations, and MongoDB wire protocol compatibility in Postgres.
 ---
 
 # Components
 
-The DocumentDB implementation consists of three PostgreSQL extensions that work together to provide MongoDB-compatible document database functionality on top of PostgreSQL.
+The DocumentDB implementation consists of two PostgreSQL extensions and a gateway that work together to provide MongoDB-compatible document database functionality on top of PostgreSQL.
 
 ## pg_documentdb_core