Re: request a new feature in fuzzystrmatch

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Atri Sharma <atri(dot)jiit(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> On 18-May-2013, at 10:00, Liming Hu <dawninghu(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>> On 5/17/2013 9:10 PM, Atri Sharma wrote:
>>> On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Liming Hu <dawninghu(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>>> On 5/17/2013 12:39 PM, Liming Hu wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Can we add Levenshtein-Damerau edit distance since it is used in
>>>>>>> spelling checker
>>>>>>> instead of levenshtein edit distance?
>>>>>> Patches welcome! You, too, can be a PostgreSQL contributor.
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>>>>>> However, you will need to preserve the ability of users to use the old
>>>>>> levenshtien algorithm as well, for backwards-compatibility. Shouldn't
>>>>>> be hard, just add a new function called levenshtiend().
>>>>> I am working on it, I will make it this weekend project.
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>>>> I have done that. and put the code at github:
>>>> https://github.com/liminghu/fuzzystrmatch
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>>>> liming(at)liming-UX31A:~/Downloads/postgresql-9.1.9/contrib/fuzzystrmatch$
>>>> sudo cp fuzzystrmatch.so
>>>> /usr/lib/postgresql/9.1/lib/fuzzystrmatch.so
>>>> liming(at)liming-UX31A:~/Downloads/postgresql-9.1.9/contrib/fuzzystrmatch$
>>>> sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql restart
>>>>
>>>> * Restarting PostgreSQL 9.1 database server
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>>>> [ OK ]
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>>>> select dameraulevenshteinnocompatible('cta', 'cat',1,1,1,1);
>>>> CREATE EXTENSION fuzzystrmatch;
>>>>
>>>> ********** Error **********
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>>>> ERROR: could not load library
>>>> "/usr/lib/postgresql/9.1/lib/fuzzystrmatch.so":
>>>> /usr/lib/postgresql/9.1/lib/fuzzystrmatch.so: undefined symbol:
>>>> damerau_levenshtein_internal_noncompatible
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>>>> Any one can help me on this? Thanks.
>>> The system is not able to find the required library, and I dont think
>>> using cp to place the library is a very good idea.Did you run Make
>>> Install after you added your work in the Makefile?
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>> I did not run make install. I am running a stable postgresql in my laptop, I do not
>> want to reinstall everything, just want to try this contribution. I am afraid
>> reinstall it will destroy my configurations, and databases, just do not want to mess up.
>> did you see any thing wrong:
>> https://github.com/liminghu/fuzzystrmatch/blob/master/fuzzystrmatch--1.0.sql
>> https://github.com/liminghu/fuzzystrmatch/blob/master/fuzzystrmatch--unpackaged--1.0.sql
>> https://github.com/liminghu/fuzzystrmatch/blob/master/fuzzystrmatch.c
>> https://github.com/liminghu/fuzzystrmatch/blob/master/dameraulevenshtein.c
>> https://github.com/liminghu/fuzzystrmatch/blob/master/
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> You need not reinstall your entire database for installing/re installing an extension.Running make install from the extension's directory(after placing it in /contrib of a postgres database source directory) will install the extension in your current database without breaking anything.

You mean:
liming(at)liming-UX31A:~/Downloads/postgresql-9.1.9/contrib/fuzzystrmatch$
make install
?

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> Regards,
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> Atri
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