Re: Fwd: pg_trgm word_similarity inconsistencies or bug

Hi!

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 3:51 PM, Jan Przemysław Wójcik <
jan(dot)przemyslaw(dot)wojcik(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> my statement about the function usefulness was probably too categorical,
> though I had in mind the current name of the function.
>
> I'm afraid that creating a function that implements quite different
> algorithms depending on a global parameter seems very hacky and would lead
> to misunderstandings. I do understand the need of backward compatibility,
> but I'd opt for the lesser evil. Perhaps a good idea would be to change the
> name to 'substring_similarity()' and introduce the new function
> 'word_similarity()' later, for example in the next major version release.
>

Good point. I've no complaints about that. I'm going to propose
corresponding patch to the next commitfest.

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