"Jonah H. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I've been working with a couple people who didn't know that soundex
> and metaphone were included in the distribution as contrib modules.
> While it's their fault that they didn't check contrib, soundex is
> pretty common among database systems and I was wondering if there was
> a reason it is not included as a core function?
Because no one's taken ownership of the code and made a case for
integrating it into the core backend.
-Doug
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