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#1 (**permalink**) 04-17-2008, 11:00 PM

Kris Jurka wrote:

>The attached patch implements the soundex difference function which
>compares two strings' soundex values for similarity.
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ISTM that given how soundex-specific this function is it should have a
less generic name than "difference".

soundex_difference maybe?

cheers

andrew

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#2 (**permalink**) 04-17-2008, 11:00 PM

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> ISTM that given how soundex-specific this function is it should have a
> less generic name than "difference".
>
> soundex_difference maybe?
>

Maybe, but difference is the name used by ms-sql, and it is also has
the same meaning in the ODBC/JDBC escape sequence
{fn difference('a','b') }

Kris Jurka

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