Re: soundex and metaphone

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jharris(at)tvi(dot)edu>
Cc: Douglas McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: soundex and metaphone
Date: 2005-05-26 14:00:23
Message-ID: 200505261600.25258.peter_e@gmx.net
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Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> At a minimum I think we should support soundex in the core. I'm
> willing to move soundex and metaphone into the backend. Does anyone
> see a reason not to do so?

Soundex is really only useful for English names with English
pronunciation. If we were to adapt a phonetic algorithm into the core,
I'd like to see something more general.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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