diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ad23f6d..51ad0b3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ with the power of remote vector databases, by introducing a new remote vector in
 
 ```sql
 CREATE TABLE products (name text, embedding vector(1536), price float);
-CREATE INDEX my_remote_index ON products USING pinecone (embedding, price) with (host = 'my-pinecone-index.pinecone.io');
+CREATE INDEX my_remote_index ON products USING remote (embedding, price) with (host = 'my-pinecone-index.pinecone.io');
 -- [insert, update, and delete billions of records in products]
 SELECT * FROM products WHERE price < 40.0 ORDER BY embedding <-> '[...]' LIMIT 10; -- pinecone performs this query, including the price predicate
 
@@ -86,11 +86,11 @@ ALTER DATABASE mydb SET pinecone.api_key = 'xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx–xxxxxxxxxx
 There are two ways to specify the pinecone index:
 - By providing the host of an existing pinecone index. For example,
 ```sql
-CREATE INDEX my_remote_index ON products USING pinecone (embedding) with (host = 'example-23kshha.svc.us-east-1-aws.pinecone.io');
+CREATE INDEX my_remote_index ON products USING remote (embedding) with (host = 'example-23kshha.svc.us-east-1-aws.pinecone.io');
 ```
 - By specifying the `spec` of the pinecone index. For example,
 ```sql
-CREATE INDEX my_remote_index ON products USING pinecone (embedding) with (spec = '"spec": {
+CREATE INDEX my_remote_index ON products USING remote (embedding) with (spec = '{
         "serverless": {
             "region": "us-west-2",
             "cloud": "aws"
diff --git a/src/remote/clients/pinecone/pinecone.c b/src/remote/clients/pinecone/pinecone.c
index fd3f9bc..f08bb31 100644
--- a/src/remote/clients/pinecone/pinecone.c
+++ b/src/remote/clients/pinecone/pinecone.c
@@ -36,6 +36,48 @@ const char* vector_metric_to_pinecone_metric[VECTOR_METRIC_COUNT] = {
     "dotproduct"
 };
 
+int extract_dimension(const cJSON *root) {
+    const cJSON *dimension = cJSON_GetObjectItemCaseSensitive(root, "dimension");
+    if (dimension == NULL || !cJSON_IsNumber(dimension)) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "Error: 'dimension' value not found or not a number.\n");
+        return -1;
+    }
+    return dimension->valueint;
+}
+
+char* get_index_name(char* host) {
+    const char* prefix = "pgvr-";
+    const char* start;
+    const char* end;
+    char* name = NULL;
+
+    // Find the prefix in the URL
+    start = strstr(host, prefix);
+    if (start == NULL) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "Prefix not found in URL.\n");
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    // Find the end of the name
+    end = start + strlen(prefix);
+    while (isdigit(*end)) {
+        end++;
+    }
+
+    // Allocate memory for the name
+    name = (char*)malloc(end - start + 1);
+    if (name == NULL) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "Memory allocation failed.\n");
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    // Copy the name into the allocated memory
+    strncpy(name, start, end - start);
+    name[end - start] = '\0'; // Null-terminate the string
+
+    return name;
+}
+
 void pinecone_spec_validator(const char* spec) {
     if (spec == NULL || cJSON_Parse(spec) == NULL) {
         ereport(ERROR,
@@ -105,6 +147,12 @@ char* pinecone_create_host_from_spec(int dimensions, VectorMetric metric, char*
 // CREATE AND MISC
 void pinecone_validate_host_schema(char* host, int dimensions, VectorMetric metric, Relation index) {
     // TODO: check that the host's schema matches the table
+    char* index_name = get_index_name(host);
+    cJSON* index_details = describe_index( pinecone_api_key, index_name);
+    int pinecone_dimensions = extract_dimension(index_details);
+    if(pinecone_dimensions != dimensions){
+        elog(ERROR, "Vector Dimension of the local table is %d but the dimension specified in the remote index is %d", dimensions, pinecone_dimensions);
+    }
     return;
 }
 
@@ -289,6 +337,7 @@ bool pinecone_bulk_upsert(char* host, PreparedBulkInsert prepared_vectors,  int
 }
 
 
+
 RemoteIndexInterface pinecone_remote_index_interface = {
     // create index
     .create_host_from_spec = pinecone_create_host_from_spec,