---
title: "Speed up PostgreSQL pgvector queries with indexes"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/speed-up-postgresql-pgvector-queries-with-indexes-4q5hmqrxx
source_url: https://www.eversql.com/speed-up-postgresql-pgvector-queries-with-indexes/
type: article
source: "EverSQL"
published: 2024-03-08T14:45:51.469Z
updated: 2024-05-24T02:12:50.819Z
tags: ["performance", "pgvector", "postgresql"]
reading_time: 39
upvotes: 2
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Speed up PostgreSQL pgvector queries with indexes

**[EverSQL](https://daily.dev/sources/eversql)** · 39 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

This post explains how indexes can speed up PostgreSQL pgvector queries. It introduces the pgvector extension, which allows for similarity searches on AI embeddings. The post also discusses different similarity metrics used in vector queries.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://www.eversql.com/speed-up-postgresql-pgvector-queries-with-indexes/>

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Tags: [#performance](https://daily.dev/tags/performance), [#pgvector](https://daily.dev/tags/pgvector), [#postgresql](https://daily.dev/tags/postgresql)

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