Re: text_soundex function

From: Chris <dmagick(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Otandeka Simon Peter <sotandeka(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: text_soundex function
Date: 2008-12-18 08:10:24
Message-ID: 494A0570.80906@gmail.com
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Chris wrote:
> Otandeka Simon Peter wrote:
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> Tried it and I get
>>
>> LINE 1: SELECT * FROM s WHERE soundex(nm) = soundex('john');
>> HINT: No function matches the given name and argument types. You
>> might need to add explicit type casts.
>
> Ahh, it's a contrib module. It's not installed by default, it's like an
> external package.
>
> See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/contrib.html for how
> to install it.

Forgot to add, the package/script you want is 'fuzzystrmatch'.

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