Re: request a new feature in fuzzystrmatch

On 5/17/2013 9:10 PM, Atri Sharma wrote:
> On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Liming Hu <dawninghu(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> On 5/17/2013 12:39 PM, Liming Hu wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>>>>> Can we add Levenshtein-Damerau edit distance since it is used in
>>>>> spelling checker
>>>>> instead of levenshtein edit distance?
>>>> Patches welcome! You, too, can be a PostgreSQL contributor.
>>>>
>>>> However, you will need to preserve the ability of users to use the old
>>>> levenshtien algorithm as well, for backwards-compatibility. Shouldn't
>>>> be hard, just add a new function called levenshtiend().
>>>>
>>> I am working on it, I will make it this weekend project.
>>
>> I have done that. and put the code at github:
>> https://github.com/liminghu/fuzzystrmatch
>>
>> liming(at)liming-UX31A:~/Downloads/postgresql-9.1.9/contrib/fuzzystrmatch$
>> sudo cp fuzzystrmatch.so
>> /usr/lib/postgresql/9.1/lib/fuzzystrmatch.so
>> liming(at)liming-UX31A:~/Downloads/postgresql-9.1.9/contrib/fuzzystrmatch$
>> sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql restart
>>
>> * Restarting PostgreSQL 9.1 database server
>>
>> [ OK ]
>>
>>
>> select dameraulevenshteinnocompatible('cta', 'cat',1,1,1,1);
>> CREATE EXTENSION fuzzystrmatch;
>>
>> ********** Error **********
>>
>> ERROR: could not load library
>> "/usr/lib/postgresql/9.1/lib/fuzzystrmatch.so":
>> /usr/lib/postgresql/9.1/lib/fuzzystrmatch.so: undefined symbol:
>> damerau_levenshtein_internal_noncompatible
>>
>> Any one can help me on this? Thanks.
>>
> The system is not able to find the required library, and I dont think
> using cp to place the library is a very good idea.Did you run Make
> Install after you added your work in the Makefile?

I did not run make install. I am running a stable postgresql in my
laptop, I do not
want to reinstall everything, just want to try this contribution. I am
afraid
reinstall it will destroy my configurations, and databases, just do not
want to mess up.
did you see any thing wrong:
https://github.com/liminghu/fuzzystrmatch/blob/master/fuzzystrmatch--1.0.sql
https://github.com/liminghu/fuzzystrmatch/blob/master/fuzzystrmatch--unpackaged--1.0.sql
https://github.com/liminghu/fuzzystrmatch/blob/master/fuzzystrmatch.c
https://github.com/liminghu/fuzzystrmatch/blob/master/dameraulevenshtein.c
https://github.com/liminghu/fuzzystrmatch/blob/master/levenshtein.c

Thanks,

Liming

>
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>
> Atri
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