Re: soundex and metaphone

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
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 14:27:18
Message-ID: 4295DCC6.9060609@dunslane.net
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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?
>
>
I take it you mean apart from the fact that soundex is horribly limited
and out of data and probably nobody should be using it?

cheers

andrew

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