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/

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