On 30 November 2010 17:55, Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote: > On sön, 2010-11-28 at 23:59 +0000, Thom Brown wrote: >> Whilst looking at the latest build of the docs at >> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/bookindex.html I've >> noticed a discrepancy in this commit from the patch I provided. I >> specified "average" as a primary term with "avg" as a secondary term, >> but the commit shows them both as separate primary entries. Was this >> changed intentionally? > > Yes. > > I have no written reference for this, but from experience, my > understanding of the way index entries should work is that the primary > term is something you would look up, and the secondary term is something > you would look up among the primary terms. > > So I think a reader would probably look up both "avg" because that's the > function he's using, and "average" because that's the term for what he's > trying to do. > > Somewhat made up examples of what reasonable secondary terms might be: > > avg, > for user-defined types > performance of
Okay, fair enough. :) -- Thom Brown Twitter: @darkixion IRC (freenode): dark_ixion Registered Linux user: #516935 -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list (pgsql-docs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs
