About this talk
This talk by Christophe Pettus explores the advancements in full-text search technology within PostgreSQL, highlighting features integrated since version 8.3 and earlier via the tsearch2 extension. The session discusses new algorithms such as BM25 and innovative approaches like pgvector, focusing on their contributions to enhancing search efficiency, accuracy, and usefulness for large text corpora. The speaker emphasizes the combination of these new technologies to develop hybrid search methods that improve overall search capabilities.