diff --git a/doc/appendix-faq.sgml b/doc/appendix-faq.sgml
index 5783153e..d3ced69c 100644
--- a/doc/appendix-faq.sgml
+++ b/doc/appendix-faq.sgml
@@ -239,11 +239,22 @@
Under some circumstances event notifications can be generated for servers
which have not yet been registered; it's also useful to retain a record
of events which includes servers removed from the replication cluster
- which no longer have an entry in the repmrg.nodes table.
+ which no longer have an entry in the repmgr.nodes table.
-
+
+ Why are some values in recovery.conf surrounded by pairs of single quotes?
+
+ This is to ensure that user-supplied values which are written as parameter values in recovery.conf
+ are escaped correctly and do not cause errors when recovery.conf is parsed.
+
+
+ The escaping is performed by an internal PostgreSQL routine, which leaves strings consisting
+ of digits and alphabetical characters only as-is, but wraps everything else in pairs of single quotes,
+ even if the string does not contain any characters which need escaping.
+
+