| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Indices or Indexes |
| Date: | 2002-02-05 15:37:31 |
| Message-ID: | 24888.1012923451@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> 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.
I argued that the OED could be taken to say that, and people seemed to
be willing to accept it:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2001-04/msg00029.php
The docs we inherited from Berkeley mostly use "indices", but we've been
trying to convert over.
regards, tom lane
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