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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