Thread: Phonetic representation LENGHT for DMETAPHONE, is there a way to make it longer?

Hello people, 

Please, I am working on a PoC for Real-time Person Identification, and one of the critical aspects of it is to support both minor misspelling and phonetic variations of First, Middle, and Last name. Like HarinGton == HarrinBton or RaphEAl == RafAEl. It's working for longer names, but it's a bit more imprecise for names like Lee and John. I am using Double Metaphone through dmetaphone() and dmetaphone_alt() in PostgreSQL 13.3 (Supabase.io). And although I appreciate Double Metaphone it returns a (too?) short string as the phonetic representation compared to metaphone(string, length). metaphone() has parameters to make the resulting phonetic representation longer. I investigated dmetaphone() and couldn't find anything other than the default function. Is there a way of making dmetaphone() and dmetaphone_alt() return a longer phonetic representation similar to metaphone()'s, but with a ALT variation?. 

Any help would be much appreciated. 

Thanks