There was a discussion months ago about helping people document the
pgpass columns, so I added a documentation sentence suggestion the use
of a comment. Patch attached and applied to 9.1 and head.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com
+ It's impossible for everything to be true. +
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
new file mode 100644
index 268b642..d642ede
*** a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
--- b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
*************** myEventProc(PGEventId evtId, void *evtIn
*** 6494,6499 ****
--- 6494,6501 ----
<synopsis>
<replaceable>hostname</replaceable>:<replaceable>port</replaceable>:<replaceable>database</replaceable>:<replaceable>username</replaceable>:<replaceable>password</replaceable>
</synopsis>
+ (You can add a reminder comment to the file by copying the line above and
+ preceeding it with <literal>#</>.)
Each of the first four fields can be a literal value, or
<literal>*</literal>, which matches anything. The password field from
the first line that matches the current connection parameters will be
