Re: Indices or Indexes

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Indices or Indexes
Date: 2002-02-05 15:17:02
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0202051015390.684-100000@peter.localdomain
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-docs

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

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-docs by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Justin Clift 2002-02-05 15:19:42 Re: Indices or Indexes
Previous Message Vince Vielhaber 2002-02-05 13:16:36 Re: Indices or Indexes