Details
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New Feature
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Resolution: Completed
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Major
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COmanage Match 1.0.0 (Suitable Pear)
Description
Implement a Postgres Dictionary based search type, to allow for (eg) mapping between "Mike" and "Michael".
Some example nickname maps:
- https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/9777/nicknames-database/9779
- https://github.com/carltonnorthern/nickname-and-diminutive-names-lookup (Apache 2 licensed, developed by Old Dominion)
- http://www.censusdiggins.com/nicknames.htm
- http://usgenweb.org/research/nicknames.html
See also (eg) https://mrfrosti.com/2011/08/22/fuzzy-matching-in-postgresql-with-nicknames/