Re: [Gnumed-devel] patient search functionality revisited

[Horst Herb]

On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 07:49, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> return a few matches that we didn't intend to see (M=FCller ->
> M.ller -> matches Miller as well). Perhaps this is acceptable
> since on second level queries we are into "extended query
> mode" already anyway.
>
> Comments ?

Don't you have any phonetic sear ch algorithms? At least for English thee=
 are=20
a number of reasonable phonetic search algorithms available ("soundex"), =
even=20
in postgres/contrib

Horst