Re: Indices or Indexes

From: Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Indices or Indexes
Date: 2002-02-05 15:19:42
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Hi Peter,

Cool. Thanks for the info, I'll make sure to get it right from here on.

:-)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net

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