Re: request a new feature in fuzzystrmatch

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On 18-May-2013, at 10:00, Liming Hu <dawninghu(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> I have done that. and put the code at github:
>>> https://github.com/liminghu/fuzzystrmatch
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> [ OK ]
>>>
>>>
>>> select dameraulevenshteinnocompatible('cta', 'cat',1,1,1,1);
>>> CREATE EXTENSION fuzzystrmatch;
>>>
>>> ********** Error **********
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> 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?
>
> 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/

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.

Regards,

Atri
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