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Re:Pgvector – vector similarity search for Postgres by heipei on Thursday April 22, 2021 @02:56PM (#26906666)
FAISS doesn't produce vectors, it's simply a vector similarity search engine.
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Re:Pgvector – vector similarity search for Postgres by BenoitP on Thursday April 22, 2021 @04:00PM (#26907463)
It produces vectors, also does the (distributed) searching.

Here is a partial list of possible vector types:

https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss/wiki/Faiss-indexes

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