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@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@
* Metaphone was originally created by Lawrence Philips and presented in article
* in "Computer Language" December 1990 issue.
*
+ * dmetaphone() and dmetaphone_alt()
+ * ---------------------------------
+ * A port of the DoubleMetaphone perl module by Andrew Dunstan. See dmetaphone.c
+ * for more detail.
+ *
* soundex()
* -----------
* Folded existing soundex contrib into this one. Renamed text_soundex() (C function)
@@ -48,11 +53,14 @@
*/
-Version 0.2 (7 August, 2001):
- Functions to calculate the degree to which two strings match in a "fuzzy" way
- Tested under Linux (Red Hat 6.2 and 7.0) and PostgreSQL 7.2devel
+Version 0.3 (30 June, 2004):
Release Notes:
+ Version 0.3
+ - added double metaphone code from Andrew Dunstan
+ - change metaphone so that an empty input string causes an empty
+ output string to be returned, instead of throwing an ERROR
+ - fixed examples in README.soundex
Version 0.2
- folded soundex contrib into this one