Thread: Postgres / Jaro Winkler fuzzy string matching

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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> Anyone have an implementation of the Jaro Winkler fuzzy string
> matching algo for Postgres?

I've not seen one, but it should be a Simple Matter of Programming
to whip something up in Perl or C.

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