Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Ron Mayer wrote:
>> I wish I knew this myself. :-) Whatever I had done happened to work
>> but that was largely through people on IRC walking me through it.
>
> This illustrates the major issue --- that this has to be simple for
> people to get started, while keeping the capabilities for experienced
> users.
>
> I am now thinking that making users always specify the configuration
> name and not allowing :: casting is going to be the best approach. We
> can always add more in 8.4 after it is in wide use.
That's fair. Either the docs need to make it totally obvious or
the software should force people to do something safe.
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