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Re: add soundex difference function to contrib/fuzzystrmatch


  • From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
  • To: Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com>
  • Cc: pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: add soundex difference function to contrib/fuzzystrmatch
  • Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 06:02:53 -0500
  • Message-id: <41F6275D.9020908@dunslane.net> <text/plain>



Kris Jurka wrote:

The attached patch implements the soundex difference function which compares two strings' soundex values for similarity.



ISTM that given how soundex-specific this function is it should have a less generic name than "difference".

soundex_difference maybe?

cheers

andrew



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