| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Fuzzy matching? |
| Date: | 2001-07-31 17:44:57 |
| Message-ID: | 13030.996601497@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> For many of my programs, it would be extremely useful to have some form
> of "fuzzy matching" for VARCHAR fields. There are two kinds of fuzzy
> matching for words that I know of:
> 1. Phonetic matching, which would be nice but will have to wait for
> someone's $100,000 project;
Uh, have you looked at contrib/soundex? The Soundex code is kinda
specialized but might be just what you want...
regards, tom lane
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