diff --git a/docs/content/concepts/08-postgres-data-plane.md b/docs/content/concepts/08-postgres-data-plane.md
index 6a94831..db8b9b9 100644
--- a/docs/content/concepts/08-postgres-data-plane.md
+++ b/docs/content/concepts/08-postgres-data-plane.md
@@ -48,6 +48,39 @@ A credential with a `postgres` block selects how the upstream password is resolv
 
 The API key is itself a credential source, so it can come from an environment variable, AWS Secrets Manager, or GCP Secret Manager. See [Credential Sources](./03-credential-sources.md).
 
+## Using a non-Neon Postgres server
+
+Only the dynamic, per-branch password minting described above is specific to Neon. Any Postgres server reachable over TLS works with the data plane through `resolver: static`: the credential source supplies one fixed password — from an environment variable, a static value, AWS Secrets Manager, GCP Secret Manager, or any other [credential source](./03-credential-sources.md) — and gatekeeper presents it to the upstream server the same way it presents a Neon-minted password. This covers Amazon RDS, Google Cloud SQL, Supabase, and self-hosted Postgres, in addition to local testing.
+
+```yaml
+postgres:
+  port: 5432
+
+tls:
+  ca_cert: ca.pem
+  ca_key: ca-key.pem
+
+credentials:
+  - host: db.example.com
+    grant: prod-db
+    postgres:
+      resolver: static
+    source:
+      type: env
+      var: DB_PASSWORD
+
+network:
+  policy: strict
+  allow:
+    - db.example.com
+```
+
+The `static` resolver fetches the password once at startup and does not re-check it. Rotating the password requires a restart — the same limitation as the `env`, `static`, and secret-manager sources on the HTTP plane.
+
+### Upstream authentication compatibility
+
+Gatekeeper authenticates to the upstream server with SCRAM-SHA-256 only, regardless of resolver. If the upstream requests any other method — MD5, cleartext password, or no password (trust) — gatekeeper closes the connection with a generic upstream-authentication error to the client; the requested method is logged server-side, never the client-facing message. Postgres 10 and later, and every major managed Postgres offering (RDS, Cloud SQL, Supabase, Neon), default to SCRAM-SHA-256. A server configured for MD5-only or trust authentication is not supported.
+
 ## Tracing a connection to its origin
 
 The audit entry's `run_id` is the trusted identity: it comes from the authenticated run token, so a client cannot forge it. But `run_id` alone doesn't say *which* connection within a run produced a given log line — a single run can open many Postgres connections over its lifetime.
diff --git a/docs/content/guides/13-postgres-neon.md b/docs/content/guides/13-postgres-neon.md
index dbf0eb2..c900285 100644
--- a/docs/content/guides/13-postgres-neon.md
+++ b/docs/content/guides/13-postgres-neon.md
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ keywords: ["gatekeeper", "postgres", "neon", "database proxy", "credential injec
 
 Run gatekeeper's Postgres listener against a Neon project. Clients connect with their run token in place of the database password; gatekeeper resolves the real per-branch password from the Neon API and completes the upstream connection.
 
+This guide is Neon-specific. For any other Postgres server — RDS, Cloud SQL, Supabase, or self-hosted — use `resolver: static` instead; see [Using a non-Neon Postgres server](../concepts/08-postgres-data-plane.md#using-a-non-neon-postgres-server).
+
 See [Postgres Data Plane](../concepts/08-postgres-data-plane.md) for how the listener works internally.
 
 ## Prerequisites
diff --git a/docs/content/reference/02-config-file.md b/docs/content/reference/02-config-file.md
index d9fd9c0..1b9aa9f 100644
--- a/docs/content/reference/02-config-file.md
+++ b/docs/content/reference/02-config-file.md
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ credentials:
 
 | Field | Type | Required | Description |
 |-------|------|----------|-------------|
-| `resolver` | `string` | Yes | `neon` (the source supplies a Neon API key; per-branch passwords are minted from the Neon API) or `static` (the source supplies a fixed password). |
+| `resolver` | `string` | Yes | `neon` (the source supplies a Neon API key; per-branch passwords are minted from the Neon API) or `static` (the source supplies a fixed password; works with any Postgres server, not just Neon). |
 | `project` | `string` | No | Neon project ID. Required for project-scoped Neon API keys, which cannot list projects; omit it for account-scoped keys. |
 
 See [Postgres Data Plane](../concepts/08-postgres-data-plane.md) for how resolution works.