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

From Atri Sharma
Subject Re: request a new feature in fuzzystrmatch
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Msg-id 72C6BCB4-D4B5-4452-9AD9-D7110346A755@gmail.com
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In response to request a new feature in fuzzystrmatch  (Liming Hu <dawninghu@gmail.com>)
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On 17-May-2013, at 6:11, Liming Hu <dawninghu@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am studying your levenshtein edit distance contribution in Postgresql.
>
> Can we add Levenshtein-Damerau edit distance since it is used in
> spelling checker
> instead of levenshtein edit distance?
>
> Levenshtein-Damerau edit distance C source code:
>
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10727174/dameraulevenshtein-distance-edit-distance-with-transposition-c-implementation.
>
>
>
>

Could you give some use cases for the same, where the proposed feature does better than the current functionalities?

Regards,

Atri


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