Re: Fuzzy matching?

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Joe Conway <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Fuzzy matching?
Date: 2001-07-31 18:11:07
Message-ID: 200107311811.f6VIB7f25183@candle.pha.pa.us
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> > See /contrib/soundex.
>
> Sorry, missed that -- I only looked in the Documentation :(
> I guess it's not there because it is a contrib. FWIW, both Oracle and MSSQL
> have a built-in soundex function.
>
> 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?

Sure.

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