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Add support for Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex in contrib/fuzzystrmatch.

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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Commit: a290378a3752f787cdc2252889ba513f6fb393db
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2023-04-07T21:32:26Z
Releases: 16.0 
Add support for Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex in contrib/fuzzystrmatch.

This modernized version of Soundex works significantly better than
the original, particularly for non-English names.

Dag Lem, reviewed by quite a few people along the way

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/yger1atbgfy.fsf@sid.nimrod.no

Files

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contrib/fuzzystrmatch/daitch_mokotoff.c added +577 −0
contrib/fuzzystrmatch/daitch_mokotoff_header.pl added +223 −0
contrib/fuzzystrmatch/expected/fuzzystrmatch.out modified +171 −0
contrib/fuzzystrmatch/expected/fuzzystrmatch_utf8_1.out added +8 −0
contrib/fuzzystrmatch/expected/fuzzystrmatch_utf8.out added +61 −0
contrib/fuzzystrmatch/fuzzystrmatch--1.1--1.2.sql added +8 −0
contrib/fuzzystrmatch/fuzzystrmatch.control modified +1 −1
contrib/fuzzystrmatch/.gitignore modified +2 −0
contrib/fuzzystrmatch/Makefile modified +18 −2
contrib/fuzzystrmatch/meson.build modified +13 −1
contrib/fuzzystrmatch/sql/fuzzystrmatch.sql modified +45 −0
contrib/fuzzystrmatch/sql/fuzzystrmatch_utf8.sql added +26 −0
doc/src/sgml/fuzzystrmatch.sgml modified +162 −7

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