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thenoahheinon Pg_vectorsearch: An index that is faster than pgvector's IVFFlat and HNSW

(Tiger data employee fwiw)

We have an alternative full-text search extension as well, pg_textsearch that's completely open source that supports hybrid re-ranking

Here's a blog on it (i linked to the section on hybrid search, there's a code snippet for you in there)

https://www.tigerdata.com/blog/introducing-pg_textsearch-tru...

We're big fans of extending Postgres for more and more usecases

thenoahheinon Pg_vectorsearch: An index that is faster than pgvector's IVFFlat and HNSW

unrelated! full-text search vs vector search, and this has a more permissive license.

thenoahheinon The Big Shift in MCP: Why AI Guides Will Replace API Wrappers

While I get the AI fatigue, I think it's worth exploring! There's been enough ecosystem adoption of MCP that I think it's got a bit of staying power to it, and that people will stick with the protocol and evolve it.