Re: Work Around For Simple Oracle interMedia?

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: holger(at)marzen(dot)de
Cc: David Griffiths <dgriffiths(at)boats(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Work Around For Simple Oracle interMedia?
Date: 2002-02-13 06:01:18
Message-ID: 200202130601.g1D61IW09419@candle.pha.pa.us
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> > This is the most basic usage of the interMedia (you can get it to do a
> > soundex to match a sound, or get a "near" match or fuzzy match rather than
> > an exact match, etc.)
>
> For fuzzy match you could write a levenshtein (sp?) function. But then
> you have to extract the words from the field. That might get tricky.

We have levenshtein in /contrib/fuzzystrmatch.

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