fuzzystrmatch extension

docs/content/v2024.1/additional-features/pg-extensions/extension-fuzzystrmatch.md

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The fuzzystrmatch module provides several functions to determine similarities and distance between strings.

sql

CREATE EXTENSION fuzzystrmatch;

SELECT levenshtein('Yugabyte', 'yugabyte'), metaphone('yugabyte', 8);

output

 levenshtein | metaphone
-------------+-----------
           2 | YKBT
(1 row)