#
# host DBNAME IP_ADDRESS ADDRESS_MASK USERAUTH [AUTH_ARGUMENT]
#
-# DBNAME is the name of a Postgres database, or "all" to indicate all
+# DBNAME is the name of a PostgreSQL database, or "all" to indicate all
# databases.
#
# IP_ADDRESS and ADDRESS_MASK are a standard dotted decimal IP address and
#
# USERAUTH is a keyword indicating the method used to authenticate the
# user, i.e. to determine that the principal is authorized to connect
-# under the Postgres username he supplies in his connection parameters.
+# under the PostgreSQL username he supplies in his connection parameters.
#
# ident: Authentication is done by the ident server on the remote
# host, via the ident (RFC 1413) protocol. AUTH_ARGUMENT, if
# specified, is a map name to be found in the pg_ident.conf file.
-# That table maps from ident usernames to Postgres usernames. The
+# That table maps from ident usernames to PostgreSQL usernames. The
# special map name "sameuser" indicates an implied map (not found
# in pg_ident.conf) that maps every ident username to the identical
-# Postgres username.
+# PostgreSQL username.
#
# trust: No authentication is done. Trust that the user has the
-# authority to user whatever username he says he does.
-# Before Postgres Version 6, all authentication was this way.
+# authority to use whatever username he specifies. Before
+# PostgreSQL version 6, all authentication was done this way.
#
# reject: Reject the connection.
#
# password: Authentication is done by matching a password supplied in clear
-# by the host. If AUTH_ARGUMENT is specified then the password is
-# compared with the user's entry in that file (in the $PGDATA
+# by the host. If AUTH_ARGUMENT is specified then the password
+# is compared with the user's entry in that file (in the $PGDATA
# directory). See pg_passwd(1). If it is omitted then the
# password is compared with the user's entry in the pg_shadow
# table.
#
# The format is the same as that of the "host" record type except that the
# IP_ADDRESS and ADDRESS_MASK are omitted and the "ident", "krb4" and "krb5"
-# values of USERAUTH are no allowed.
+# values of USERAUTH are not allowed.
-# For backwards compatibility, PostgreSQL also accepts pre-Version 6 records,
+# For backwards compatibility, PostgreSQL also accepts pre-version 6 records,
# which look like:
#
# all 127.0.0.1 0.0.0.0
#host all 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0 ident omicron
#
# The above would allow users from 192.168.0.x hosts to connect to any
-# database, but if e.g. Ident says the user is "bryanh" and he requests to
-# connect as Postgres user "guest1", the connection is only allowed if
+# database, but if Ident says the user is "bryanh" and he requests to
+# connect as PostgreSQL user "guest1", the connection is only allowed if
# there is an entry for map "omicron" in pg_ident.conf that says "bryanh" is
# allowed to connect as "guest1".