Re: Fuzzy matching? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Fuzzy matching?
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0108052344140.11071-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Fuzzy matching?  ("Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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Josh Berkus writes:

> For many of my programs, it would be extremely useful to have some form
> of "fuzzy matching" for VARCHAR fields.

For lexical similarity, check out the agrep algorithm.  Last I checked the
source code wasn't quite Free(tm), but the algorithm was published in an
academic work.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter



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