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Postgres as a Search Engine


Build a retrieval system with semantic, full-text, and fuzzy search in Postgres to be used as a backbone in RAG pipelines.

Postgres’s reliance on TF-IDF for full-text search can struggle with very long documents and rare terms in large collections. Use the debugging techniques we discussed to understand how your search is performing, and don’t be afraid to adjust weights and parameters based on user feedback and behavior. Build a retrieval system with semantic, full-text, and fuzzy search in Postgres to be used as a backbone in RAG pipelines.

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