Peter,
I don't disagree with you that a more generalized function would also be
good, just that soundex is common and would be helpful if it were built-in.
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
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.
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