Re: Fuzzy matching?

From: "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: "Joe Conway" <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com>, "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Fuzzy matching?
Date: 2001-07-31 20:53:37
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Tom, Joe,

> Our usual practice with stuff of uncertain usefulness has been to
> stick
> it in contrib for awhile and see if anyone uses it. If there's
> sufficient interest, we'll promote it to mainstream in a future
> release.

Makes sense to me. Go, Joe!

Since I can't help with the porting of metaphone or levenstein (but will
benefit immensely), I pledge to write a name-alike data checking
PL/pgSQL function which I will post to Roberto's library for public
consumption.

-Josh

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