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burembayesterday at 8:05 PM1 replyview on HN

The native extensions are fine but I don't have good experience with any third party extensions, so far tried Timescale, pg_lake, citus, and pgvectorscale. They look very appealing but it's usually a trap as you can't get the value without using the vendor's cloud offerings.

I think if you grow enough to look for these extensions, it's usually better to bet on purpose-specific tooling. For example, I use DuckDB/Iceberg combination extensively for columnar data and connect DuckDB to PG when I need it.


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throwaway7783yesterday at 10:19 PM

Fair enough. How do you do BM25?