compares two strings' soundex values for similarity, from Kris Jurka.
Also mark the text_soundex() function as STRICT, to avoid crashing
on NULL input.
>
> The patch adds missing the "libpgport.a" file to the installation under
> "install-all-headers". It is needed by some contribs. I install the
> library in "pkglibdir", but I was wondering whether it should be "libdir"?
> I was wondering also whether it would make sense to have a "libpgport.so"?
>
> It fixes various macros which are used by contrib makefiles, especially
> libpq_*dir and LDFLAGS when used under PGXS. It seems to me that they are
> needed to
>
> It adds the ability to test and use PGXS with contribs, with "make
> USE_PGXS=1". Without the macro, this is exactly as before, there should be
> no difference, esp. wrt the vpath feature that seemed broken by previous
> submission. So it should not harm anybody, and it is useful at least to me.
>
> It fixes some inconsistencies in various contrib makefiles
> (useless override, ":=" instead of "=").
Fabien COELHO
as it stands - it mixes declarations in code, C++-style. The attached
patch shifts declarations to the tops of functions and enables this file
to compile cleanly as C.
Richard Poole
an empty input string causes an empty output string to be returned, instead of
throwing an ERROR -- per complaint from Aaron Hillegass, and consistent with
double metaphone. Fix examples in README.soundex pointed out by James Robinson.
> Second argument to metaphone is suposed to set the limit on the
> number of characters to return, but it breaks on some phrases:
>
> usps=# select metaphone(a,3),metaphone(a,4),metaphone(a,20) from
> (select 'Hello world'::varchar AS a) a;
> HLW | HLWR | HLWRLT
>
> usps=# select metaphone(a,3),metaphone(a,4),metaphone(a,20) from
> (select 'A A COMEAUX MEMORIAL'::varchar AS a) a;
> AKM | AKMKS | AKMKSMMRL
>
> In every case I've found that does this, the 4th and 5th letters are
> always 'KS'.
Nice catch.
There was a bug in the original metaphone algorithm from CPAN. Patch
attached (while I was at it I updated my email address, changed the
copyright to PGDG, and removed an unnecessary palloc). Here's how it
looks now:
regression=# select metaphone(a,4) from (select 'A A COMEAUX
MEMORIAL'::varchar AS a) a;
metaphone
-----------
AKMK
(1 row)
regression=# select metaphone(a,5) from (select 'A A COMEAUX
MEMORIAL'::varchar AS a) a;
metaphone
-----------
AKMKS
(1 row)
Joe Conway
only remnant of this failed experiment is that the server will take
SET AUTOCOMMIT TO ON. Still TODO: provide some client-side autocommit
logic in libpq.
Create objects in public schema.
Make spacing/capitalization consistent.
Remove transaction block use for object creation.
Remove unneeded function GRANTs.
written a generic framework of rules that the contrib makefiles can
use instead of writing their own each time. You only need to set a few
variables and off you go.
be able to apply against what you just committed. It rolls soundex into
fuzzystrmatch.
Remove soundex/metaphone and merge into fuzzystrmatch.
Joe Conway
metaphone() in a contrib. There seem to be a fair number of different
approaches to both of these algorithms. I used the simplest case for
levenshtein which has a cost of 1 for any character insertion, deletion, or
substitution. For metaphone, I adapted the same code from CPAN that the PHP
folks did.
A couple of questions:
1. Does it make sense to fold the soundex contrib together with this one?
2. I was debating trying to add multibyte support to levenshtein (it would
make no sense at all for metaphone), but a quick search through the contrib
directory found no hits on the word MULTIBYTE. Should worry about adding
multibyte support to levenshtein()?
Joe Conway
Neil Conway