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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@gmx.net

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