Back to feed
Dev.to
Dev.to
6/27/2026
The original title is: "Building a RAG System from Scratch with pgvector and Gemini — Implementation"

The original title is: "Building a RAG System from Scratch with pgvector and Gemini — Implementation"

Original: Building a RAG System from Scratch with pgvector and Gemini — Implementation

Short summary

Step-by-step RAG implementation using pgvector and Google Gemini with complete Python code examples. Covers database setup, HNSW index tuning (dev/production/accuracy parameter reference), asymmetric embedding task types (RETRIEVAL_DOCUMENT vs RETRIEVAL_QUERY), and vector similarity search. Includes architectural reasoning like 768-dimension embeddings optimized for pgvector's HNSW limits.

  • Complete RAG pipeline implementation with pgvector + Gemini, ready to run locally
  • HNSW index parameter tuning guide for different accuracy/performance trade-offs
  • Asymmetric embedding strategies (task_type) to improve retrieval accuracy

Generated with AI, which can make mistakes.

Is this a good recommendation for you?

Comments

Failed to load comments. Please try again.

Explore more