Hi Joel,
If your using java, and full text, fuzzy searching is an important part of
your app, you might want to check out Lucene. I evaluated it for a
project, and it was very good (the project was a fuzzy search of huge
pages of text).
http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/docs/index.html
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Joel Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I seem to recall once coming across & using functionality in PostgreSQL
> that allowed for some flexibility in the spelling of a query term. For
> example, if one meant to look for 'Honda', but typed in 'Zonda'. There
> was even a 'looseness' factor of sorts available. I've spent a lot of
> time trying to find it in the docs and various articles & tutorials on
> my hard drive, even an hour on Google in vain. It was not
> contrib/fuzzystrmatch.
>
> Anyone know what I'm talking about ?
>
> Cheers,
> Joel
>
>
>
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