Mention limited usefulness of .pgpass database field.

15 years ago · 71be8db5df
parent 529cb267a6
commit 71be8db5df
1 changed files with 2 additions and 0 deletions
--- a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
@ -6331,6 +6331,8 @@ myEventProc(PGEventId evtId, void *evtInfo, void *passThrough)
   or the default socket directory) connections coming from the local
   machine. In a standby server, a database name of <literal>replication</>
   matches streaming replication connections made to the master server.
+   The <literal>database</> field is of limited usefulness because
+   users have the same password for all databases in the same cluster.
  </para>

  <para>