Re: Fuzzy substring searching with the pg_trgm extension - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Teodor Sigaev wrote:
> >The behavior of this function is surprising to me.
> >
> >select substring_similarity('dog' ,  'hotdogpound') ;
> >
> >  substring_similarity
> >----------------------
> >                  0.25
> >
> Substring search was desined to search similar word in string:
> contrib_regression=# select substring_similarity('dog' ,  'hot dogpound') ;
>  substring_similarity
> ----------------------
>                  0.75
> 
> contrib_regression=# select substring_similarity('dog' ,  'hot dog pound') ;
>  substring_similarity
> ----------------------
>                     1

Hmm, this behavior looks too much like magic to me.  I mean, a substring
is a substring -- why are we treating the space as a special character
here?

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