Approaches

Hybrid text and vector retrieval

Combine lexical matching with vector similarity and fuse or rerank candidates.

When to consider it

  • When either term matching or semantic similarity alone misses useful candidates

Considerations

  • The fusion method and rankings need evaluation against real queries.

Connections

Sources

  1. pgvector project documentationpgvector · checked 2026-09-30
  2. PostgreSQL Full Text SearchPostgreSQL Global Development Group · checked 2026-09-30

Last reviewed 2026-09-30