From: Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au>
To: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: How to find double entries
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:49:23 +0800
Message-ID: <48062003.3050409@postnewspapers.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <82308532-B9D5-481C-9256-75BDCB69E74B@khera.org>
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Vivek Khera wrote:
>
> On Apr 15, 2008, at 11:23 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> What's really a duplicate sounds like a judgment call here, so you
>> probably shouldn't even think of automating it completely.
>
> I did a consulting gig about 10 years ago for a company that made
> software to normalize street addresses and names. Literally dozens of
> people worked there, and that was their primary software product. It is
> definitely not a trivial task, as the rules can be extremely complex.
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