Re: request a new feature in fuzzystrmatch

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>
>> Can we add Levenshtein-Damerau edit distance since it is used in
>> spelling checker
>> instead of levenshtein edit distance?
>
> Patches welcome!  You, too, can be a PostgreSQL contributor.
>
> However, you will need to preserve the ability of users to use the old
> levenshtien algorithm as well, for backwards-compatibility.  Shouldn't
> be hard, just add a new function called levenshtiend().
>
I am working on it, I will make it this weekend project.
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