diff --git a/app/Config/database.php.default b/app/Config/database.php.default
index 767c01095..c8ee3088c 100644
--- a/app/Config/database.php.default
+++ b/app/Config/database.php.default
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@
  * For MySQL, Postgres specifies the character encoding to use when connecting to the
  * database. Uses database default not specified.
  *
+ * sslmode =>
+ * For Postgres specifies whether to 'disable', 'allow', 'prefer', or 'require' SSL for the 
+ * connection. The default value is 'allow'.
+ *
  * unix_socket =>
  * For MySQL to connect via socket specify the `unix_socket` parameter instead of `host` and `port`
  *