Postgres / Jaro Winkler fuzzy string matching
Anyone have an implementation of the Jaro Winkler fuzzy string matching algo
for Postgres?
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaro-Winkler
* http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=385950&tstart=0
It's rumored to (sometimes?) work better than the Levenshtein algo included
in contrib/fuzzystr
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Anyone have an implementation of the Jaro Winkler fuzzy string
matching algo for Postgres?
I've not seen one, but it should be a Simple Matter of Programming
to whip something up in Perl or C.
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