diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml
index cc11ce69bd2..2ac79245d02 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml,v 1.72 2010/06/10 08:13:49 itagaki Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml,v 1.73 2010/06/11 10:13:08 heikki Exp $ -->
 
 <chapter id="high-availability">
  <title>High Availability, Load Balancing, and Replication</title>
@@ -818,8 +818,10 @@ host    replication     foo             192.168.1.100/32        md5
     </para>
     <para>
      The host name and port number of the primary, connection user name,
-     and password are specified in the <filename>recovery.conf</> file or
-     the corresponding environment variable on the standby.
+     and password are specified in the <filename>recovery.conf</> file.
+     The password can also be set in the <filename>~/.pgpass</> file on the
+     standby (specify <literal>replication</> in the <replaceable>database</>
+     field).
      For example, if the primary is running on host IP <literal>192.168.1.50</>,
      port <literal>5432</literal>, the superuser's name for replication is
      <literal>foo</>, and the password is <literal>foopass</>, the administrator
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
index 57357b18bb2..646cb16cdd1 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml,v 1.306 2010/05/26 23:49:18 tgl Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml,v 1.307 2010/06/11 10:13:08 heikki Exp $ -->
 
 <chapter id="libpq">
  <title><application>libpq</application> - C Library</title>
@@ -6233,7 +6233,8 @@ myEventProc(PGEventId evtId, void *evtInfo, void *passThrough)
    A host name of <literal>localhost</> matches both TCP (host name
    <literal>localhost</>) and Unix domain socket (<literal>pghost</> empty
    or the default socket directory) connections coming from the local
-   machine.
+   machine. In a standby server, a database name of <literal>replication</>
+   matches streaming replication connections made to the master server.
   </para>
 
   <para>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/recovery-config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/recovery-config.sgml
index 5bea0f37d6a..d555960b805 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/recovery-config.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/recovery-config.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/recovery-config.sgml,v 2.7 2010/06/10 08:13:49 itagaki Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/recovery-config.sgml,v 2.8 2010/06/11 10:13:09 heikki Exp $ -->
 
 <chapter Id="recovery-config">
   <title>Recovery Configuration</title>
@@ -268,9 +268,10 @@ restore_command = 'copy "C:\\server\\archivedir\\%f" "%p"'  # Windows
           primary (see
           <xref linkend="streaming-replication-authentication">).
           A password needs to be provided too, if the primary demands password
-          authentication.  (The password can be provided either in
-          the <varname>primary_conninfo</varname> string or in a separate
-          <filename>~/.pgpass</> file on the standby server.)
+          authentication.  It can be provided in the
+          <varname>primary_conninfo</varname> string, or in a separate
+          <filename>~/.pgpass</> file on the standby server (use
+          <literal>replication</> as the database name).
           Do not specify a database name in the
           <varname>primary_conninfo</varname> string.
          </para>
diff --git a/src/backend/replication/libpqwalreceiver/libpqwalreceiver.c b/src/backend/replication/libpqwalreceiver/libpqwalreceiver.c
index 1807fde9e4b..b62f48be825 100644
--- a/src/backend/replication/libpqwalreceiver/libpqwalreceiver.c
+++ b/src/backend/replication/libpqwalreceiver/libpqwalreceiver.c
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/replication/libpqwalreceiver/libpqwalreceiver.c,v 1.10 2010/04/21 03:32:53 tgl Exp $
+ *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/replication/libpqwalreceiver/libpqwalreceiver.c,v 1.11 2010/06/11 10:13:09 heikki Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ _PG_init(void)
 static bool
 libpqrcv_connect(char *conninfo, XLogRecPtr startpoint)
 {
-	char		conninfo_repl[MAXCONNINFO + 18];
+	char		conninfo_repl[MAXCONNINFO + 37];
 	char	   *primary_sysid;
 	char		standby_sysid[32];
 	TimeLineID	primary_tli;
@@ -85,8 +85,14 @@ libpqrcv_connect(char *conninfo, XLogRecPtr startpoint)
 	PGresult   *res;
 	char		cmd[64];
 
-	/* Connect using deliberately undocumented parameter: replication */
-	snprintf(conninfo_repl, sizeof(conninfo_repl), "%s replication=true", conninfo);
+	/*
+	 * Connect using deliberately undocumented parameter: replication.
+	 * The database name is ignored by the server in replication mode, but
+	 * specify "replication" for .pgpass lookup.
+	 */
+	snprintf(conninfo_repl, sizeof(conninfo_repl),
+			 "%s dbname=replication replication=true",
+			 conninfo);
 
 	streamConn = PQconnectdb(conninfo_repl);
 	if (PQstatus(streamConn) != CONNECTION_OK)