Re: Fuzzy string matching of product names

From: Peter Geoghegan <peter(dot)geoghegan86(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Bill Moran <wmoran(at)potentialtech(dot)com>
Cc: PGSQL Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Fuzzy string matching of product names
Date: 2010-04-05 20:00:41
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> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/fuzzystrmatch.html
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> Bill Moran
> http://www.potentialtech.com
> http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/

Fuzzystrmatch is generally used to compare two single words for how
similar they sound. How can that actually be applied to get the
functionality that I've described?

Regards,
Peter Geoghegan

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