> > See /contrib/soundex.
>
> Sorry, missed that -- I only looked in the Documentation :(
> I guess it's not there because it is a contrib. FWIW, both Oracle and MSSQL
> have a built-in soundex function.
>
> In any case, metaphone is reportedly more accurate (at least for English
> words) than soundex, and levenshtein offers an entirely different and
> interesting approach. Any interest in having all three of these in the
> backend?
Sure.
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