compares two strings' soundex values for similarity, from Kris Jurka.
Also mark the text_soundex() function as STRICT, to avoid crashing
on NULL input.
an empty input string causes an empty output string to be returned, instead of
throwing an ERROR -- per complaint from Aaron Hillegass, and consistent with
double metaphone. Fix examples in README.soundex pointed out by James Robinson.
be able to apply against what you just committed. It rolls soundex into
fuzzystrmatch.
Remove soundex/metaphone and merge into fuzzystrmatch.
Joe Conway