Re: [HACKERS] pg_indexes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
Subject Re: [HACKERS] pg_indexes
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Msg-id 86r9vy5pqw.fsf@athene.nhh.no
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In response to pg_indexes  (Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:

> Sorry to be nit-picky, but is pg_indexes proper English.  Isn't it
> pg_indices?

In proper English, "indices" is plural of the singular noun "index".
In American, "indexes" is also allowed.  (In proper English, "indexes"
is a conjugation of the transitive verb "index", of course.)

-tih
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