Re: Indexes vs indices - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Indexes vs indices
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Msg-id 200104021658.MAA19640@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Indexes vs indices  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> [Dept of swatting flies with sledgehammers]
> 
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > One of these days we should decide on a spelling of "indexes" vs
> > "indices".
> 
> I'd vote for "indexes", first on the practical grounds that it's a more
> sensible spelling, and secondly on the grounds that the Oxford English
> Dictionary agrees.  Its entry for the noun index has:
> 

I never liked indices.  I like indexes.

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