From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Indices or Indexes
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 10:37:31 -0500
Message-ID: <24888.1012923451@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.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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