diff --git a/src/backend/parser/gram.y b/src/backend/parser/gram.y
index cda6895153..02b500e5a0 100644
--- a/src/backend/parser/gram.y
+++ b/src/backend/parser/gram.y
@@ -5579,7 +5579,7 @@ ConstraintAttributeElem:
 
 CreateEventTrigStmt:
 			CREATE EVENT TRIGGER name ON ColLabel
-			EXECUTE PROCEDURE func_name '(' ')'
+			EXECUTE FUNCTION_or_PROCEDURE func_name '(' ')'
 				{
 					CreateEventTrigStmt *n = makeNode(CreateEventTrigStmt);
 					n->trigname = $4;
@@ -5590,7 +5590,7 @@ CreateEventTrigStmt:
 				}
 		  | CREATE EVENT TRIGGER name ON ColLabel
 			WHEN event_trigger_when_list
-			EXECUTE PROCEDURE func_name '(' ')'
+			EXECUTE FUNCTION_or_PROCEDURE func_name '(' ')'
 				{
 					CreateEventTrigStmt *n = makeNode(CreateEventTrigStmt);
 					n->trigname = $4;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/event_trigger.out b/src/test/regress/expected/event_trigger.out
index 008e859d4c..6175a10d77 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/event_trigger.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/event_trigger.out
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ create event trigger regress_event_trigger on ddl_command_start
    execute procedure test_event_trigger();
 -- OK
 create event trigger regress_event_trigger_end on ddl_command_end
-   execute procedure test_event_trigger();
+   execute function test_event_trigger();
 -- should fail, food is not a valid filter variable
 create event trigger regress_event_trigger2 on ddl_command_start
    when food in ('sandwich')
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/event_trigger.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/event_trigger.sql
index ef7faf0ab7..342aef6449 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/event_trigger.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/event_trigger.sql
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ create event trigger regress_event_trigger on ddl_command_start
 
 -- OK
 create event trigger regress_event_trigger_end on ddl_command_end
-   execute procedure test_event_trigger();
+   execute function test_event_trigger();
 
 -- should fail, food is not a valid filter variable
 create event trigger regress_event_trigger2 on ddl_command_start