Re: soundex and metaphone

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jharris(at)tvi(dot)edu>
Cc: Douglas McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: soundex and metaphone
Date: 2005-05-26 14:58:25
Message-ID: 2188.1117119505@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Jonah H. Harris" <jharris(at)tvi(dot)edu> writes:
> At a minimum I think we should support soundex in the core. I'm willing
> to move soundex and metaphone into the backend. Does anyone see a
> reason not to do so?

Is it really ready for prime time? For one thing, a quick look shows no
evidence of being multibyte-ready. There's a fair amount of cleanup of
random private coding conventions (META_MALLOC!?) to be done too.

Doug's point is valid: there's some actual work needed here, not just
arguing to shove the code from point A to point B.

regards, tom lane

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