Re: Indices or Indexes - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Indices or Indexes
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0202051015390.684-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Indices or Indexes  (Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>)
Responses Re: Indices or Indexes  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Justin Clift writes:

> Just noticed that Section 7.2 of the Users Guide (devel docs) is called
> "Indexes".  I was under the impression the "correct" terminology should
> be "Indices".

It's "indexes" for a database index, and "indices" for an array index.  At
least that's what some big dictionary once revealed to us.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net


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