RAG, MCP, Skills — Three Paradigms for LLMs Talking to Your Database, and Why Governance Changes Everything
Introduction Throughout my RAG series, I’ve explored how to build retrieval-augmented generation systems with PostgreSQL and pgvector — from Naive RAG through Hybrid Search, Adaptive RAG, Agentic RAG, and Embedding Versioning (not yet released) . The focus has always been on retrieval quality: precision, recall, nDCG, confidence. But I want to take a step back. In conversations with colleagues, clients,…


