Re: metaphone and nysiis in postgres

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Demel, Jeff" <Jeff(dot)Demel(at)JavelinDirect(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: metaphone and nysiis in postgres
Date: 2007-02-07 20:08:48
Message-ID: 21334.1170878928@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Demel, Jeff" <Jeff(dot)Demel(at)JavelinDirect(dot)com> writes:
> Microsoft SQL server has two extended stored procedures that I need in
> Postgres: xp_nysiis and xp_metaphone. They do fuzzy matching on
> strings. Are there Postgres alternatives for these?

Never heard of nysiis, but there's metaphone code in contrib/fuzzystrmatch
(along with a few other alternatives).

regards, tom lane

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