Hybrid retrieval in one Postgres query: RRF over tsvector + pgvector
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Dense vector search is great until your agent asks for parseAuthHeader and gets back three chunks about "authentication token handling" — semantically close, functionally useless. Same story with file paths, error codes, and compliance clause numbers. These are lexical needles, and embeddings blur…
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Hybrid retrieval in one Postgres query: RRF over tsvector + pgvector