| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Joe Conway" <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Fuzzy matching? |
| Date: | 2001-07-31 18:48:37 |
| Message-ID: | 21448.996605317@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Joe Conway" <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com> writes:
> In any case, metaphone is reportedly more accurate (at least for English
> words) than soundex, and levenshtein offers an entirely different and
> interesting approach. Any interest in having all three of these in the
> backend?
I'd certainly accept such functions as /contrib material, but probably
would want to wait to see if they get used much before putting them in
the standard backend ...
regards, tom lane
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