diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/mvcc.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/mvcc.sgml
index f8c9655111..ecff9474c8 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/mvcc.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/mvcc.sgml
@@ -1039,7 +1039,7 @@ ERROR: could not serialize access due to read/write dependencies among transact
- Once acquired, a lock is normally held till end of transaction. But if a
+ Once acquired, a lock is normally held until the end of the transaction. But if a
lock is acquired after establishing a savepoint, the lock is released
immediately if the savepoint is rolled back to. This is consistent with
the principle that ROLLBACK cancels all effects of the
@@ -1178,7 +1178,10 @@ ERROR: could not serialize access due to read/write dependencies among transact
conflicting locks on the same row, even in different subtransactions;
but other than that, two transactions can never hold conflicting locks
on the same row. Row-level locks do not affect data querying; they
- block only writers and lockers to the same row.
+ block only writers and lockers to the same
+ row. Row-level locks are released at transaction end or during
+ savepoint rollback, just like table-level locks.
+