Re: [SQL] Fuzzy matching?

[Tom Lane]

"Joe Conway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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'd certainly accept such functions as /contrib material, but probably
would want to wait to see if they get used much before putting them in
the standard backend ...

                        regards, tom lane

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