fuzzystrmatch extension

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

2026.1.0.0-b29373 B

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)