Re: String Similarity
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 04:00:48PM -0400, Mark Woodward wrote:
(3) Is there also a desire for a Levenshtein distence function for text
and varchars? I experimented with it, and was forced to write the function
in item #1.
Postgres already has a Levenshtein distence function, see fuzzystrmatch
in contrib. Whatever you come up with might fit in well there...
Have a nice day,
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Mark Woodward wrote:
(3) Is there also a desire for a Levenshtein distence function for text
and varchars? I experimented with it, and was forced to write the function
in item #1.
fuzzystrmatch in contrib already has a Levenshtein function.
cheers
andrew
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