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Re:Investing in new vector database development vs enhancing... by riku_iki on Saturday November 25, 2023 @11:15PM (#38419118)
so, its just happened that there is no good implementation of full text search in postgres, but fundamentally nothing prevents from implementing such search, except horizontal scalability if it is needed.
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Re:Investing in new vector database development vs enhancing... by johnthescott on Saturday November 25, 2023 @11:41PM (#38419218)
the pg extension called "rum" is very performant on millions of pdfs.

https://github.com/postgrespro/rum

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Re:Investing in new vector database development vs enhancing... by riku_iki on Sunday November 26, 2023 @12:11AM (#38419334)
my case is tens of billions of short docs, and default search is fine except index creation is single threaded, so it takes multiple days to build index, and github page says rum is even slower..
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