Re: Fuzzy matching? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Fuzzy matching?
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Msg-id 21448.996605317@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Fuzzy matching?  ("Joe Conway" <joseph.conway@home.com>)
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"Joe Conway" <joseph.conway@home.com> writes:
> 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?

I'd certainly accept such functions as /contrib material, but probably
would want to wait to see if they get used much before putting them in
the standard backend ...
        regards, tom lane


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