Adjust user-facing documentation to explain why we don't check pgpass

file permissions on Windows.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
index a7be065ec67d0cf6a240e620aed2afa7e5f59a2d..9e5416c53f35088a2cc565189ac8681a9d53b5e5 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-
+
 
  
   <application>libpq</application> - C Library
@@ -4337,12 +4337,12 @@ default socket directory) connections coming from the local machine.
 
 
 
-The permissions on .pgpass must disallow any
-access to world or group; achieve this by the command
+On Unix systems, the permissions on .pgpass must disallow
+any access to world or group; achieve this by the command
 chmod 0600 ~/.pgpass.
 If the permissions are less strict than this, the file will be ignored.
-(The file permissions are not currently checked on Microsoft Windows,
-however.)
+On Microsoft Windows, the file is stored in a directory that is secure by
+default, so no special permissions check is made.