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List:       postgresql-sql
Subject:    [SQL] RE: Fuzzy matching?
From:       Jeff Eckermann <jeckermann () verio ! net>
Date:       2001-07-31 20:23:39
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With version 7.2 we will have pl/perlu (untrusted), which will allow use of
the various Perl modules which do this sort of thing.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Josh Berkus [SMTP:josh@agliodbs.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, July 31, 2001 1:16 PM
> To:	Joe Conway; Bruce Momjian
> Cc:	Josh Berkus; pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
> Subject:	Re: Fuzzy matching?
> 
> Joe,
> 
> > In any case, metaphone is reportedly more accurate (at least for
> > English
> > words) than soundex, and levenshtein offers an entirely different and
> > interesting approach. Any interest in having all three of these in
> > the
> > backend?
> 
> I'm quite interested, myself.  How difficult is it for somebody that
> doesn't program C to attach a function from the Contrib directory?  If
> it's not very difficult, then I'd recommend putting metaphone in
> /contrib, and levenstein in the backend.  My reasoning is that
> levenstein is useful for all roman alphabets, but metaphone is not so
> useful for non-english versions of postgres.
> 
> -Josh
> 
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