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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Reply-To: josh@agliodbs.com
Organization: Aglio Database Solutions
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Indexing Metaphone?
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 11:12:02 -0700
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Folks,

I'm building a database that does a lot of fuzzy-string searches.  As such,=
=20
I'd like to index the metaphone results of certain columns.  However, I get=
=20
this when I try:

jwnet=3D> CREATE INDEX idx_locations_metaphone ON=20
locations(metaphone(location_name, 12));
ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "12"
jwnet=3D>

is this a syntax error, or do I need to create a column to hold the metapho=
ne=20
values in order to index them?

--=20
-Josh Berkus