Yes, You Can Do Hybrid Search in Postgres (And You Probably Should)

pg_textsearch

pg_textsearch

By Erin Mikail Staples

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Apr 20, 2026

Most search stacks run four systems to answer one question. You don't need any of them. Build production hybrid search in Postgres with pg_textsearch for BM25, pgvectorscale for vector similarity, and Reciprocal Rank Fusion to combine them. One query. One database.