Re: soundex and metaphone

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:
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>>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?
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>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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