"Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> For many of my programs, it would be extremely useful to have some form
> of "fuzzy matching" for VARCHAR fields. There are two kinds of fuzzy
> matching for words that I know of:
> 1. Phonetic matching, which would be nice but will have to wait for
> someone's $100,000 project;
Uh, have you looked at contrib/soundex? The Soundex code is kinda
specialized but might be just what you want...
regards, tom lane