Hi hackers,
I am interested in extending Postgres with a generalized edit function like
SAS's compged[1], which is basically levenshtein distance with transposes (ab
- ba) and LOTS of different weights for certain ops (like insert a blank
versus delete from the end versus insert a regular
Fork,
1. Does anybody else care? I would love to see this in contrib, but if the
chances are slim, then I would like to know that too.
That really depends on how well it works, and how much code it is. It's
way too early for anyone to have a viewpoint on this. For example, a
few years ago
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Josh Berkus j...@agliodbs.com wrote:
Anyway, if it's ASCII-only, that's a guaranteed way to make sure it
isn't taken seriously.
Pre-9.1 levenshtein is ASCII-only, and I think some of the other stuff
in contrib/fuzzystrmatch still is. We had to work pretty hard
Robert Haas robertmhaas at gmail.com writes:
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Josh Berkus josh at agliodbs.com wrote:
Anyway, if it's ASCII-only, that's a guaranteed way to make sure it
isn't taken seriously.
Pre-9.1 levenshtein is ASCII-only, and I think some of the other stuff
in
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 7:40 PM, fork forkandw...@gmail.com wrote:
Pre-9.1 levenshtein is ASCII-only, and I think some of the other stuff
in contrib/fuzzystrmatch still is.
I am only looking at 9.0.3 for levenshtein, so I don't have any thoughts yet
on
multi-byteness so far. I will have
