Re: Fuzzy matching? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Fuzzy matching?
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In response to Fuzzy matching?  ("Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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Tom, Joe,

> Our usual practice with stuff of uncertain usefulness has been to
> stick
> it in contrib for awhile and see if anyone uses it.  If there's
> sufficient interest, we'll promote it to mainstream in a future
> release.

Makes sense to me.  Go, Joe!

Since I can't help with the porting of metaphone or levenstein (but will
benefit immensely), I pledge to write a name-alike data checking
PL/pgSQL function which I will post to Roberto's library for public
consumption.

-Josh


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