| From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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| To: | Mark Woodward <pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: String Similarity |
| Date: | 2006-05-19 19:54:32 |
| Message-ID: | 20060519195432.GK17873@svana.org |
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On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 04:00:48PM -0400, Mark Woodward wrote:
> (3) Is there also a desire for a Levenshtein distence function for text
> and varchars? I experimented with it, and was forced to write the function
> in item #1.
Postgres already has a Levenshtein distence function, see fuzzystrmatch
in contrib. Whatever you come up with might fit in well there...
Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.
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