From 41db002ee16a9a429b300b72070718a2ed3289ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Facetoe <facetoe@facetoe.com.au>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 22:30:40 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Add information on necessary postgresql configuration.

---
 conf.d/python.d/postgresql.conf | 13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/conf.d/python.d/postgresql.conf b/conf.d/python.d/postgresql.conf
index 313526e1..555d9122 100644
--- a/conf.d/python.d/postgresql.conf
+++ b/conf.d/python.d/postgresql.conf
@@ -59,14 +59,19 @@
 #     database : example_db_name
 #     user : example_user
 #     password : example_pass
-#     host: example.com
-#     port: 5432
-
+#     host : example.com
+#     port : 5432
+#
+# Of these options, "database" and "user" are required. If Postgresql is configured
+# to allow connections via the unix socket ("local" is set to "trust" in pg_hba.conf)
+# then a password is not necessary.
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 # AUTO-DETECTION JOBS
 # only one of them will run (they have the same name)
 
-# Depending on how postgresql is configured it may be possible to connect as the postgres user.
+
+# Requires access to the unix socket.
 localhost:
     name : postgres
     database : postgres
+    user : postgres
-- 
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