Minor wordsmithing on .pgpass description.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
index b8499f02323275a42db9b09b6069f501b9c20224..bff6f294f481260c769806f787730f8ca7081b5b 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
 
  
@@ -2519,10 +2519,13 @@ This file should have lines of the following format:
 
 hostname:port:database:username:password
 
-Each of these fields may be a literal name or *, which
-matches anything.  The first matching entry will be used, so put more-specific
-entries first.  When an entry contain : or
-\, it must be escaped with \.
+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
+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 \.
 
 
 The permissions on .pgpass must disallow any