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> hybrid search

Yes, I believe it can be done but it requires a bit of work on your side. I'll see if we can come up with a demo and/or postgres extension which handles this for you

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looping back here. The langchain community just released a version of Hybrid Search which using postgres full text search. It's clever, and IMO probably a better approach than just sparse/dense vectors:

https://js.langchain.com/docs/modules/indexes/retrievers/sup...

Will check this out - it seems like its doing two separate searches where you specify two separate top K values. Curious what the trade offs are between this approach and weighting sparse/dense vectors

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