On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]> wrote: > Peter Geoghegan wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Alvaro Herrera >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > 0 for a transposition, wow. >> >> Again, they're optimizing for short strings (git commands) only. There >> just isn't that many transposition errors possible with a 4 character >> string. > > If there's logic in your statement, I can't see it.
The point is that transposition errors should not have no cost. If git did not have an absolute quality test of a distance of 6, which they can only have because all git commands are terse, then you could construct a counter example. -- Peter Geoghegan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
