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 #### External PostgreSQL Service
 
-In order for the AWX instance to rely on an external database, the Custom Resource needs to know about the connection details. Those connection details should be stored as a secret and either specified a `tower_postgres_configuration_secret` at the CR spec level, or simply be present on the namespace under the name `<resourcename>-postgres-configuration`.
+In order for the AWX instance to rely on an external database, the Custom Resource needs to know about the connection details. Those connection details should be stored as a secret and either specified as `tower_postgres_configuration_secret` at the CR spec level, or simply be present on the namespace under the name `<resourcename>-postgres-configuration`.
 
 
-The secret that is expected to be passed should be formatted as follow:
+The secret should be formatted as follows:
 
 ```yaml
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