| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Fuzzy matching? |
| Date: | 2001-08-05 21:47:29 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.30.0108052344140.11071-100000@peter.localdomain |
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Josh Berkus writes:
> For many of my programs, it would be extremely useful to have some form
> of "fuzzy matching" for VARCHAR fields.
For lexical similarity, check out the agrep algorithm. Last I checked the
source code wasn't quite Free(tm), but the algorithm was published in an
academic work.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter
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