From 6859d8c141d7ffa2efb7270d089b9395ad9dfd1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Momjian Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 13:53:41 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add mention that .pgpass localhost matches tcp and unix domain sockets. --- doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml index 31980e9017..36c172aeb9 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ @@ -3976,12 +3976,14 @@ This file should contain lines of the following format: hostname:port:database:username:password Each of the first four fields may be a literal value, or *, -which -matches anything. The password field from the first line that matches the +which matches anything. The password field from the first line that matches the current connection parameters will be used. (Therefore, put more-specific entries first when you are using wildcards.) If an entry needs to contain : or \, escape this character with \. +A hostname of localhost matches both host (TCP) +and local (Unix domain socket) connections coming from the +local machine.