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Your pgvector Search Gets Slower as You Add Data. Here’s the Setting Everyone Misses.

Your semantic search was instant at ten thousand rows. At two million it's 800 milliseconds and climbing, and you never

Your pgvector Search Gets Slower as You Add Data. Here’s the Setting Everyone Misses.

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At two million it's 800 milliseconds and climbing, and you never

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