Re: Name Alike Challenge

From: "Joe Conway" <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com>
To: "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Name Alike Challenge
Date: 2001-08-08 02:23:33
Message-ID: 003a01c11fb1$1f87a3e0$0705a8c0@jecw2k1
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> The "Name Alike" PL/pgSQL function has been posted on Roberto Mello's
> cookbook:
>
>
http://www.brasileiro.net/postgres/cookbook/view-one-recipe.adp?recipe_id=96
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>
> This function requires Joe Conway's port of the Metaphone and
> Levenshtein functions to PostgreSQL, available from /contrib on CVS as
> well as another site where /contrib stuff is available (anyone know
> where this is?). Thanks again, Joe!

I sent it as a tgz to Justin for techdocs.postgresql.org. Here's the link:
http://techdocs.postgresql.org/source.php#ffuzzy

Note that the lastest source in cvs has soundex included, which this tar
file does not, but soundex is not needed for Josh's function and it was in
previous contribs anyway.

-- Joe

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