--- title: "The 150x pgvector speedup: a year-in-review" url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-150x-pgvector-speedup-a-year-in-review-xisy2dugk source_url: https://jkatz05.com/post/postgres/pgvector-performance-150x-speedup/ type: article source: "Hacker News" published: 2024-05-01T08:24:13.908Z updated: 2024-05-24T02:14:33.227Z tags: ["performance", "pgvector", "vector-search"] reading_time: 18 upvotes: 1 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The 150x pgvector speedup: a year-in-review **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 18 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The post discusses the performance improvements achieved by pgvector over the past year, including a 150x speedup in index build time and enhancements in recall, latency, throughput, and index size. It also highlights the areas where pgvector can continue to improve and mentions upcoming goals for better supporting vector workloads. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#performance](https://daily.dev/tags/performance), [#pgvector](https://daily.dev/tags/pgvector), [#vector-search](https://daily.dev/tags/vector-search) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-150x-pgvector-speedup-a-year-in-review-xisy2dugk)