Re: spelling errors in query terms

On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Joel Rodrigues wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I seem to recall once coming across & using functionality in PostgreSQL
> that allowed for some flexibility in the spelling of a query term. For
> example, if one meant to look for 'Honda', but typed in 'Zonda'. There
> was even a 'looseness' factor of sorts available. I've spent a lot of
> time trying to find it in the docs and various articles & tutorials on
> my hard drive, even an hour on Google in vain. It was not
> contrib/fuzzystrmatch.

You might try http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/trgm/
which uses trigram.

>
> Anyone know what I'm talking about ?
>
> Cheers,
> Joel
>
>
>
>
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Oleg
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