Fuzzy Name Matching in Postgres
Using Levenshtein and Soundex extensions with indexes for fast fuzzy matches.
Using Levenshtein and Soundex extensions with indexes for fast fuzzy matches.
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This is a collection of classes that can be used for Approximate matching, searching, and comparing of Strings. They implement algorithms that compute the Levenshtein edit distance, Sellers edit distance, the Hamming distance, the longest common subsequence length, the longest common substring length, the pair distance metric, the Jaro-Winkler metric.
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