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To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
cc: Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Indices or Indexes 
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Comments: In-reply-to Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
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Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 10:37:31 -0500
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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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