Re: Index

From: J.O. Aho <user_at_example.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 19:58:02 +0200
Message-ID: <gpmbpaF9u1U1_at_mid.individual.net>


[Quoted] On 22/07/2019 13.19, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 21/07/2019 21:35, J.O. Aho wrote:

>> On 21/07/2019 21.22, Tony Mountifield wrote:
>>> In article <qh2bl2$9ii$3_at_dont-email.me>,

>>> Neither form is wrong. Both have been in English many centuries (and
>>> though
>>> indexes is now most common in American English, it predates the
>>> United States
>>> by centuries). It’s true that indices is the plural of index in
>>> Latin, but
>>> index is an English word when English speakers use it—and it is a
>>> longstanding
>>> one at that—so we can pluralize it according to the conventions of
>>> English.
>>
>> MySQL, Sybase, Oracle, MS SQL Server, and postgresql documentation
>> uses 'indexes' when talking about index in plural, so I would go so
>> far that indexes is the more accepted spelling when talking about
>> databases.
>>
> I expect they are American...

[Quoted] Not all of them, the original MySQL documentation was written by Swedes, [Quoted] which also the guys behind MariaDB are too.

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  //Aho
Received on Mon Jul 22 2019 - 19:58:02 CEST

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