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From: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: How to find double entries
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:27:49 -0400
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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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