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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/storage.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/storage.sgml
index 746a48219fd..ad9fba2d0f3 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/storage.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/storage.sgml
@@ -117,9 +117,14 @@ last started with</entry>
<row>
<entry><filename>postmaster.pid</></entry>
<entry>A lock file recording the current postmaster process id (PID),
- postmaster start time, cluster data directory, port number, user-specified
- Unix domain socket directory, first valid listen_address host, and
- shared memory segment ID</entry>
+ cluster data directory path,
+ postmaster start timestamp,
+ port number,
+ Unix-domain socket directory path (empty on Windows),
+ first valid listen_address (IP address or <literal>*</>, or empty if
+ not listening on TCP),
+ and shared memory segment ID
+ (this file is not present after server shutdown)</entry>
</row>
</tbody>