DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL Vector How-Tos

Enable pgvector and Load Embeddings

Enable the pgvector extension on DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL, design a table for embeddings, and insert vectors from psql, Python, Node.js, and Go.

Index and Tune Vector Search on PostgreSQL

Choose between HNSW and IVFFlat, understand pgvector distance operators, tune recall versus speed, and combine similarity search with SQL filters on DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL.

Advanced Vector Workloads with pgvectorscale and Hybrid Search

Use pgvectorscale StreamingDiskANN for disk-resident vector search, combine full-text and vector search for better relevance, and build a minimal RAG pattern on DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL.