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Hybrid Search for RAG: Why Your Vector Search Misses "TS-999" (and the 20-Line Fix)

Community description: A user types: "How do I fix error TS-999?" Your RAG app runs a vector search, pulls five chunks...

Dev.to | Oct 19, 2026 | M.T.Ramkrushna

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Postgres full-text search, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, and vector databases like Weaviate ship hybrid search built in. Vector search is great at meaning and bad at exact tokens. BM25 is great at exact tokens and bad at meaning.

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