post-graph-rag: A PostgreSQL-Native Graph RAG Engine

Abstract:Graph-based retrieval-augmented generation connects facts that no single passage states, but current implementations pay for that three times: in infrastructure, requiring a vector store, graph database and document store to be kept consistent; in graph quality, because an extraction pipeline that never refuses output fills the graph with edges that assert nothing; and over time, because a graph that only accumulates treats superseded and current facts alike. post-graph-rag is an open-source engine addressing all three. Text chunks with embeddings, a canonical entity graph and community summaries live in one PostgreSQL database, with pgvector for search and edge tables for traversal. Extraction-time invariants run before anything is written: vague predicates, pronominal names and bare quantities are rejected; predicates are normalised onto an optional vocabulary; entities resolve to one vertex per canonical name via model-supplied aliases; and denied relations keep the positive predicate under a negation flag. A temporal layer lets relations carry a validity period from the prose, lets a later document supersede an earlier incompatible assertion from document order alone, and answers as-of queries. Against LightRAG on three corpora under identical extraction and embedding models, post-graph-rag builds a denser graph everywhere, up to $2.4\times$ the relations per entity, and a more queryable one: distinct edge labels run at 0.46 to 0.58 per relation, 0.11 under a controlled vocabulary, against 0.77 to 1.33. It answers comparably with lower query latency, and supports temporal evolution the baseline lacks: 13 and 8 relationships superseded on a novel sequence and a decade of filings, against zero. These are engineering measurements, not a benchmark result. Code: this https URL, this https URL

Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

arXiv:2608.24921 [cs.AI]

(or arXiv:2608.24921v1 [cs.AI] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.24921 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite

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