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Re: approx searches (ITS#803)



At 03:27 PM 10/4/00 +0000, m.d.t.evans@qmw.ac.uk wrote:
>Full_Name: Martin Evans
>Version: 2.0.4
>OS: Solaris and Linux
>URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
>Submission from: (NULL) (138.37.8.180)
>
>
>Fuzzy Matching in 2.0.4 appears not to work very well.
>Approx searches for entries return no results
>e.g. An exact match returns ok...

The current approx matching code just uses equality matching.
Phonetic/Soundex (or other) approximate matching codes need
updating...  the --enable-phonetic config option is a no-op
at present.

Kurt