Re: Fuzzy text search

On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 07:46:51AM -0800, jennyw wrote:
> We've heard that PostgreSQL can do fuzzy search, but haven't had much
> luck. I'm brand new to PostgreSQL, so this might be completely obvious
> for an experienced user.
>
> Are there any how-tos on fuzzy text searching? Someone said to try using
> tsearch2, but it seems that it does full-text searching, but not fuzzy
> search. Ideally, we'd like to use that w/ a fuzzy search option. In
> particular, if someone searches for "imat" we want to return results
> including "immaterial" and "imaterial" (so misspellings plus partial match).

In the contrib directory, there is a directory fuzzystrmatch which
includes code for various forms of fuzzy matching.

Good luck.
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