diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1909.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1909.xml
index e04945e2730..53fec6c9b62 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1909.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1909.xml
@@ -148,6 +148,11 @@
     </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
+    <para>
+     The httpd service no longer attempts to start the postgresql service. If you have come to depend
+     on this behaviour then you can preserve the behavior with the following configuration:
+     <literal>systemd.services.httpd.after = [ "postgresql.service" ];</literal>
+    </para>
     <para>
      The option <option>services.httpd.extraSubservices</option> has been
      marked as deprecated. You may still use this feature, but it will be
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/apache-httpd/default.nix b/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/apache-httpd/default.nix
index d6cb5bd4471..ea9476a7c91 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/apache-httpd/default.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/apache-httpd/default.nix
@@ -671,7 +671,7 @@ in
 
         wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
         wants = [ "keys.target" ];
-        after = [ "network.target" "fs.target" "postgresql.service" "keys.target" ];
+        after = [ "network.target" "fs.target" "keys.target" ];
 
         path =
           [ httpd pkgs.coreutils pkgs.gnugrep ]