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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: metaphone and nysiis in postgres
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Msg-id 21334.1170878928@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to metaphone and nysiis in postgres  ("Demel, Jeff" <Jeff.Demel@JavelinDirect.com>)
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"Demel, Jeff" <Jeff.Demel@JavelinDirect.com> writes:
> Microsoft SQL server has two extended stored procedures that I need in
> Postgres: xp_nysiis and xp_metaphone.  They do fuzzy matching on
> strings.  Are there Postgres alternatives for these?

Never heard of nysiis, but there's metaphone code in contrib/fuzzystrmatch
(along with a few other alternatives).
        regards, tom lane

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