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From: Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Indices or Indexes
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 02:19:42 +1100
Message-ID: <3C5FF80E.F99DAE47@postgresql.org> (raw)
References: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0202051015390.684-100000@peter.localdomain>

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@gmx.net

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who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the
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