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From: Christoph Haller <ch@rodos.fzk.de>
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Subject: Re: Compare strings which resembles each other
To: gulshan.babajee@parabolemaurice.com (Gulshan Babajee)
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> 
> Hy, I have a table containing some rows. Each row contains a field name
> which is of type String.
> 
> For example:
> in row1 string1 is "Adieu Poulet",
> in row2 string2 is "Adieu a Poulet",
> in row3 string3 is "Adiue Poulet",
> in row4 string4 is "Adieu Pouleet", etc..
> (That is each string resembles each other a bit, they are somewhat similar
> to each other)
> 
> What type of query should I make so as it return me all these string. That
> is I watn a query which return me strings which are similar or somewhat
> similar to each other.
> 
> thanks in advance
> gulshan
> 
$PGSQLD/contrib/tsearch/README.tsearch 
is your friend. 

Regards, Christoph