The Rust performance line for pg-raggraph: a real pgrx extension with async background-worker ingest and hybrid retrieval, plus a sidecar mode for managed Postgres where you can’t load an extension at all.
A 17× perf gap between pg-raggraph and Apache AGE turned out to be 5 lines of glue code in the bakeoff adapter, not an architectural problem. The fix, the four library-side wins still on the floor, and the three architectural directions ahead — pg_net sidecar, pgrx Rust extension, hybrid embedding tiers.
A full LLM-driven tuning loop with four real outcomes: a successful apply, an automatic rollback on regression, a safety-layer rejection, and a hint-driven redirect. No recommendations without measurement.