Re: String Similarity - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: String Similarity
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Msg-id 20060519195432.GK17873@svana.org
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In response to String Similarity  ("Mark Woodward" <pgsql@mohawksoft.com>)
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On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 04:00:48PM -0400, Mark Woodward wrote:
> (3) Is there also a desire for a Levenshtein distence function for text
> and varchars? I experimented with it, and was forced to write the function
> in item #1.

Postgres already has a Levenshtein distence function, see fuzzystrmatch
in contrib. Whatever you come up with might fit in well there...

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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