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 Open-source vector similarity search for Postgres
 
-```sql
-CREATE TABLE items (embedding vector(3));
-CREATE INDEX ON items USING ivfflat (embedding vector_l2_ops);
-SELECT * FROM items ORDER BY embedding <-> '[1,2,3]' LIMIT 5;
-```
-
-Supports L2 distance, inner product, and cosine distance
+Supports exact and approximate nearest neighbor search for L2 distance, inner product, and cosine distance
 
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