Postgres / Jaro Winkler fuzzy string matching

From: "Robert James" <srobertjames(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Postgres / Jaro Winkler fuzzy string matching
Date: 2007-05-18 03:47:26
Message-ID: e09785e00705172047q5014a294n2cdaf914f6bf04aa@mail.gmail.com
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Anyone have an implementation of the Jaro Winkler fuzzy string matching algo
for Postgres?

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaro-Winkler
* http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=385950&tstart=0

It's rumored to (sometimes?) work better than the Levenshtein algo included
in contrib/fuzzystr

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