io.github.timescale/pg-aiguide

Search documentation with hybrid semantic (vector) and keyword (BM25) search. Use semanticWeight to choose keyword-only (0), semantic-only (1), or a blend; mid values fuse rankings with RRF. Supports Tiger Cloud (TimescaleDB), PostgreSQL, and PostGIS.

Retrieve detailed skills for TimescaleDB operations and best practices. ## Available Skills <available_skills> [11 ]{name description}: design-postgis-tables Comprehensive PostGIS spatial table design reference covering geometry types, coordinate systems, spatial indexing, and performance patterns for location-based applications design-postgres-tables "Use this skill for general PostgreSQL table design.\n\n**Trigger when user asks to:**\n- Design PostgreSQL tables, schemas, or data models when creating new tables and when modifying existing ones.\n- Choose data types, constraints, or indexes for PostgreSQL\n- Create user tables, order tables, reference tables, or JSONB schemas\n- Understand PostgreSQL best practices for normalization, constraints, or indexing\n- Design update-heavy, upsert-heavy, or OLTP-style tables\n\n\n**Keywords:** PostgreSQL schema, table design, data types, PRIMARY KEY, FOREIGN KEY, indexes, B-tree, GIN, JSONB, constraints, normalization, identity columns, partitioning, row-level security\n\nComprehensive reference covering data types, indexing strategies, constraints, JSONB patterns, partitioning, and PostgreSQL-specific best practices.\n" find-hypertable-candidates "Use this skill to analyze an existing PostgreSQL database and identify which tables should be converted to Timescale/TimescaleDB hypertables.\n\n**Trigger when user asks to:**\n- Analyze database tables for hypertable conversion potential\n- Identify time-series or event tables in an existing schema\n- Evaluate if a table would benefit from Timescale/TimescaleDB\n- Audit PostgreSQL tables for migration to Timescale/TimescaleDB/TigerData\n- Score or rank tables for hypertable candidacy\n\n\n**Keywords:** hypertable candidate, table analysis, migration assessment, Timescale, TimescaleDB, time-series detection, insert-heavy tables, event logs, audit tables\n\nProvides SQL queries to analyze table statistics, index patterns, and query patterns. Includes scoring criteria (8+ points = good candidate) and pattern recognition for IoT, events, transactions, and sequential data.\n" migrate-postgres-tables-to-hypertables "Use this skill to migrate identified PostgreSQL tables to Timescale/TimescaleDB hypertables with optimal configuration and validation.\n\n**Trigger when user asks to:**\n- Migrate or convert PostgreSQL tables to hypertables\n- Execute hypertable migration with minimal downtime\n- Plan blue-green migration for large tables\n- Validate hypertable migration success\n- Configure compression after migration\n\n**Prerequisites:** Tables already identified as candidates (use find-hypertable-candidates first if needed)\n\n**Keywords:** migrate to hypertable, convert table, Timescale, TimescaleDB, blue-green migration, in-place conversion, create_hypertable, migration validation, compression setup\n\nStep-by-step migration planning including: partition column selection, chunk interval calculation, PK/constraint handling, migration execution (in-place vs blue-green), and performance validation queries.\n" pgvector-semantic-search "Use this skill for setting up vector similarity search with pgvector for AI/ML embeddings, RAG applications, or semantic search.\n\n**Trigger when user asks to:**\n- Store or search vector embeddings in PostgreSQL\n- Set up semantic search, similarity search, or nearest neighbor search\n- Create HNSW or IVFFlat indexes for vectors\n- Implement RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) with PostgreSQL\n- Optimize pgvector performance, recall, or memory usage\n- Use binary quantization for large vector datasets\n\n**Keywords:** pgvector, embeddings, semantic search, vector similarity, HNSW, IVFFlat, halfvec, cosine distance, nearest neighbor, RAG, LLM, AI search\n\nCovers: halfvec storage, HNSW index configuration (m, ef_construction, ef_search), quantization strategies, filtered search, bulk loading, and performance tuning.\n" postgres "Use this skill for any PostgreSQL database work — table design, indexing, data types, constraints, extensions (pgvector, PostGIS, TimescaleDB), search, and migrations.\n\n**Trigger when user asks to:**\n- Explore an existing PostgreSQL database to understand its objects and relationships\n- Design or modify PostgreSQL tables, schemas, or data models\n- Choose data types, constraints, indexes, or partitioning strategies\n- Work with pgvector embeddings, semantic search, or RAG\n- Set up full-text search, hybrid search, or BM25 ranking\n- Use PostGIS for spatial/geographic data\n- Set up TimescaleDB hypertables for time-series data\n- Migrate tables to hypertables or evaluate migration candidates\n- Plan or execute safe schema migrations with zero downtime\n\n**Keywords:** PostgreSQL, Postgres, SQL, schema, table design, indexes, constraints, pgvector, PostGIS, TimescaleDB, hypertable, semantic search, hybrid search, BM25, time-series, migration\n" postgres-database-migration "Use this skill for planning, testing, and safely executing PostgreSQL schema migrations — especially when working with production data or shared databases.\n\n**Trigger when user asks to:**\n- Test a schema migration before applying it to production\n- Add, remove, or rename columns safely on a live table\n- Change a column's data type without downtime\n- Add or drop indexes, constraints, or foreign keys on large tables\n- Understand which ALTER TABLE operations lock the table\n- Roll back a failed migration\n- Plan a zero-downtime migration strategy\n- Fork a database to test a migration safely\n\n**Keywords:** migration, schema change, ALTER TABLE, add column, drop column, rename column, change type, zero downtime, lock, AccessExclusiveLock, concurrent index, forking, rollback, backfill, deploy\n\nCovers: lock-level reference for every common DDL operation, safe migration patterns, fork-based testing, zero-downtime column changes, index creation, constraint addition, backfill strategies, pre/post-migration validation, and rollback planning.\n" postgres-hybrid-t… [3654 more characters not shown]