Jonah H. Harris wrote: > At a minimum I think we should support soundex in the core. I'm > willing to move soundex and metaphone into the backend. Does anyone > see a reason not to do so?
Soundex is really only useful for English names with English pronunciation. If we were to adapt a phonetic algorithm into the core, I'd like to see something more general. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match