Which pgvector distance metric is equivalent to maximizing inner product (used with unit-normalized embeddings)?
- A <-> (Euclidean)
- B <=> (Cosine)
- C <#> (Negative inner product) (correct answer)
- D <@> (L1)
Shortcut: <#> returns negative inner product. Sorting ASC by <#> finds vectors with maximum dot product. For unit-normalized embeddings, inner product and cosine similarity are equivalent.