On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 5:37 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
>
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/fuzzystrmatch.html
> Description:
>
> The fuzzystrmatch documentation says that the order for the Levenshtein
> cost
> parameters is insertion, deletion, substitution. Based on my tests with
> Postgres 9.4, the order should be deletion, insertion, substitution, since
> the algorithm behaves that way (this can be easily checked).
I did check, and they seem correct to me:
=# select levenshtein('aaa', 'aaab', 1, 100, 100);
levenshtein
-------------
1
(1 row)
Notice that the order of the first two arguments is (source, target).
.m
