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Fuzzy date matching in PostgreSQL

5 November, 2008 (00:45) | databases | By: dan

As part of one of my side-projects, I wanted a way for users of a web site to search for events by date, but with some flexibility. I also wanted users who are creating events to be able to express uncertainty about the dates on which they happened.

For example, if I record an event that [...]