fuzzystrmatch extension

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

CREATE EXTENSION fuzzystrmatch;

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

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