Vector search is now boring, but PostgreSQL has ways to go
Presenters Jonathan Katz Source PGConf.dev 2025 Level Up Your Vector Search in PostgreSQL: What’s New with PGVector 0.8 and Beyond 🚀 Are you diving into the exciting world of vector search? 🌐 PostgreSQL, with its powerful pgvector extension, has become a go-to choice for many. But as workloads grow, we’re hitting some walls. Let’s explore the latest advancements in pgvector, the challenges we face, and what the future holds. What’s Vector Search, and Why Does it Matter? 🎯 Imagine searching for images that resemble a given image, or finding documents with similar themes. That’s the power of vector search! Instead of exact matches, you’re finding data based on similarity. The pgvector extension brings this capability to PostgreSQL, leveraging machine learning models (embedding models) to convert data into vectors. 💡 ...