Received: from localhost (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 843169FB284 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 16:09:24 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 91760-05 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 16:08:49 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECDC09FB1E5 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 16:08:50 -0400 (AST) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l17K8mvj021336; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 15:08:48 -0500 (EST) To: "Demel, Jeff" cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: metaphone and nysiis in postgres In-reply-to: <136ED738BD4F1545B97E4AC06FF6370734C28D@DMSP-MSG-EVS01.mail.pvt> References: <136ED738BD4F1545B97E4AC06FF6370734C28D@DMSP-MSG-EVS01.mail.pvt> Comments: In-reply-to "Demel, Jeff" message dated "Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:46:42 -0600" Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:08:48 -0500 Message-ID: <21334.1170878928@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200702/64 X-Sequence-Number: 27398 "Demel, Jeff" writes: > Microsoft SQL server has two extended stored procedures that I need in > Postgres: xp_nysiis and xp_metaphone. They do fuzzy matching on > strings. Are there Postgres alternatives for these? Never heard of nysiis, but there's metaphone code in contrib/fuzzystrmatch (along with a few other alternatives). regards, tom lane