| From: | "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jharris(at)tvi(dot)edu> |
|---|---|
| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| 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 14:15:07 |
| Message-ID: | 4295D9EB.3070502@tvi.edu |
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Peter,
I don't disagree with you that a more generalized function would also be
good, just that soundex is common and would be helpful if it were built-in.
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>Jonah H. Harris wrote:
>
>
>>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?
>>
>>
>
>Soundex is really only useful for English names with English
>pronunciation. If we were to adapt a phonetic algorithm into the core,
>I'd like to see something more general.
>
>
>
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