Re: soundex and metaphone - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: soundex and metaphone
Date
Msg-id 200505261600.25258.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: soundex and metaphone  ("Jonah H. Harris" <jharris@tvi.edu>)
Responses Re: soundex and metaphone  ("Jonah H. Harris" <jharris@tvi.edu>)
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Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> At a minimum I think we should support soundex in the core.  I'm
> willing to move soundex and metaphone into the backend.  Does anyone
> see a reason not to do so?

Soundex is really only useful for English names with English 
pronunciation.  If we were to adapt a phonetic algorithm into the core, 
I'd like to see something more general.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/


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