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