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From Marco Pennekamp
Subject Re: [DOCS] Levenshtein function cost parameters are in the wrong order
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In response to Re: [DOCS] Levenshtein function cost parameters are in the wrong order  (Marko Tiikkaja <marko@joh.to>)
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Oh, yeah. I didn't think about the source/target order! Thank you for checking and sorry for the inconvenience! 

On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 2:34 PM Marko Tiikkaja <marko@joh.to> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 5:37 PM, <marco.pennekamp96@gmail.com> wrote:
The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:

Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/fuzzystrmatch.html
Description:

The fuzzystrmatch documentation says that the order for the Levenshtein cost
parameters is insertion, deletion, substitution. Based on my tests with
Postgres 9.4, the order should be deletion, insertion, substitution, since
the algorithm behaves that way (this can be easily checked).

I did check, and they seem correct to me:

  =# select levenshtein('aaa', 'aaab', 1, 100, 100);
   levenshtein
  -------------
             1
  (1 row)

Notice that the order of the first two arguments is (source, target).


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