Re: request a new feature in fuzzystrmatch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: request a new feature in fuzzystrmatch
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Msg-id 51967F9E.1070100@agliodbs.com
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In response to request a new feature in fuzzystrmatch  (Liming Hu <dawninghu@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: request a new feature in fuzzystrmatch  (Liming Hu <dawninghu@gmail.com>)
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> Can we add Levenshtein-Damerau edit distance since it is used in
> spelling checker
> instead of levenshtein edit distance?

Patches welcome!  You, too, can be a PostgreSQL contributor.

However, you will need to preserve the ability of users to use the old
levenshtien algorithm as well, for backwards-compatibility.  Shouldn't
be hard, just add a new function called levenshtiend().

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
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