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From Robert James
Subject Postgres / Jaro Winkler fuzzy string matching
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Anyone have an implementation of the Jaro Winkler fuzzy string matching algo for Postgres?

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaro-Winkler
* http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=385950&tstart=0

It's rumored to (sometimes?) work better than the Levenshtein algo included in contrib/fuzzystr


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