Re: soundex and metaphone

Tom Lane wrote:

>"Jonah H. Harris" <jharris@tvi.edu> writes:
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>>At a minimum I think we should support soundex in the core.  I'm willing 
>>to move soundex and metaphone into the backend.  Does anyone see a 
>>reason not to do so?
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>Is it really ready for prime time?  For one thing, a quick look shows no
>evidence of being multibyte-ready.  There's a fair amount of cleanup of
>random private coding conventions (META_MALLOC!?) to be done too.
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>Doug's point is valid: there's some actual work needed here, not just
>arguing to shove the code from point A to point B.
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Well, META_MALLOC occurs in part of the code that he didn't ask for ... 
it was inherited from the perl module code that I adapted to do double 
metaphone. And a minimal wrapper suited my purposes at the time just fine.

But the point is well taken nevertheless.

cheers

andrew