text_soundex function

Otandeka Simon Peter wrote:

Does this function(text_soundex) exist in the latest Postgresql versions
or it was replaced?

It's called soundex:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/fuzzystrmatch.html

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Hi Chris,

Tried it and I get

LINE 1: SELECT * FROM s WHERE soundex(nm) = soundex('john');
HINT: No function matches the given name and argument types. You might need
to add explicit type casts.

yet the data type of the nm is text.

I am using 8.3.1.

Anything am doing wrong?

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Chris <dmagick@gmail.com> wrote:

Otandeka Simon Peter wrote:

Hi Chris,

Tried it and I get

LINE 1: SELECT * FROM s WHERE soundex(nm) = soundex('john');
HINT: No function matches the given name and argument types. You might
need to add explicit type casts.

Ahh, it's a contrib module. It's not installed by default, it's like an
external package.

See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/contrib.html for how
to install it.

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Chris wrote:

Otandeka Simon Peter wrote:

Hi Chris,

Tried it and I get

LINE 1: SELECT * FROM s WHERE soundex(nm) = soundex('john');
HINT: No function matches the given name and argument types. You
might need to add explicit type casts.

Ahh, it's a contrib module. It's not installed by default, it's like an
external package.

See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/contrib.html for how
to install it.

Forgot to add, the package/script you want is 'fuzzystrmatch'.

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