Re: soundex and metaphone - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Douglas McNaught
Subject Re: soundex and metaphone
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Msg-id m2is16e3ql.fsf@Douglas-McNaughts-Powerbook.local
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In response to soundex and metaphone  ("Jonah H. Harris" <jharris@tvi.edu>)
Responses Re: soundex and metaphone  ("Jonah H. Harris" <jharris@tvi.edu>)
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"Jonah H. Harris" <jharris@tvi.edu> writes:

> Hey everyone,
>
> I've been working with a couple people who didn't know that soundex
> and metaphone were included in the distribution as contrib modules.
> While it's their fault that they didn't check contrib, soundex is
> pretty common among database systems and I was wondering if there was
> a reason it is not included as a core function?

Because no one's taken ownership of the code and made a case for
integrating it into the core backend.

-Doug


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