diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/initdb.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/initdb.sgml
index 7fc3152c6d..da5c8f5307 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/initdb.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/initdb.sgml
@@ -216,11 +216,10 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
        <para>
         Use checksums on data pages to help detect corruption by the
         I/O system that would otherwise be silent. Enabling checksums
-        may incur a noticeable performance penalty. This option can only
-        be set during initialization, and cannot be changed later. If
-        set, checksums are calculated for all objects, in all databases. All
-        checksum failures will be reported in the <xref
-        linkend="pg-stat-database-view"/> view.
+        may incur a noticeable performance penalty. If set, checksums
+        are calculated for all objects, in all databases. All checksum
+        failures will be reported in the
+        <xref linkend="pg-stat-database-view"/> view.
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>