Re: soundex and metaphone

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?

Douglas McNaught wrote:

>"Jonah H. Harris" <jharris(at)tvi(dot)edu> writes:
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>>Hey everyone,
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>>I've been working with a couple people who didn't know that soundex
>>and metaphone were included in the distribution as contrib modules.
>>While it's their fault that they didn't check contrib, soundex is
>>pretty common among database systems and I was wondering if there was
>>a reason it is not included as a core function?
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>Because no one's taken ownership of the code and made a case for
>integrating it into the core backend.
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>-Doug
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