diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene90/compressing/Lucene90CompressingTermVectorsReader.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene90/compressing/Lucene90CompressingTermVectorsReader.java
index 7330f2d01ad..b44c1cddfee 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene90/compressing/Lucene90CompressingTermVectorsReader.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene90/compressing/Lucene90CompressingTermVectorsReader.java
@@ -304,6 +304,11 @@ public final class Lucene90CompressingTermVectorsReader extends TermVectorsReade
     return new Lucene90CompressingTermVectorsReader(this);
   }
 
+  @Override
+  public TermVectorsReader getMergeInstance() {
+    return new Lucene90CompressingTermVectorsReader(this);
+  }
+
   private static RandomAccessInput slice(IndexInput in) throws IOException {
     final int length = in.readVInt();
     final byte[] bytes = new byte[length];