SELECT l2_distance('{}'::sparsevec, '{0:3,1:4}'); l2_distance ------------- 5 (1 row) SELECT l2_distance('{}'::sparsevec, '{1:1}'); l2_distance ------------- 1 (1 row) SELECT '{}'::sparsevec <-> '{0:3,1:4}'; ?column? ---------- 5 (1 row) SELECT inner_product('{0:1,1:2}'::sparsevec, '{0:2,1:4}'); inner_product --------------- 10 (1 row) SELECT sparsevec_negative_inner_product('{0:1,1:2}', '{0:2,1:4}'); sparsevec_negative_inner_product ---------------------------------- -10 (1 row) SELECT cosine_distance('{0:1,1:2}'::sparsevec, '{0:2,1:4}'); cosine_distance ----------------- 0 (1 row) SELECT cosine_distance('{0:1,1:2}'::sparsevec, '{}'); cosine_distance ----------------- NaN (1 row) SELECT cosine_distance('{0:1,1:1}'::sparsevec, '{0:-1,1:-1}'); cosine_distance ----------------- 2 (1 row) SELECT cosine_distance('{0:1}'::sparsevec, '{1:2}'); cosine_distance ----------------- 1 (1 row) SELECT cosine_distance('{}'::sparsevec, '{}'); cosine_distance ----------------- NaN (1 row)