diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_index.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_index.sgml
index ad619cdcfe..3a4e71ca1c 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_index.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_index.sgml
@@ -586,6 +586,16 @@ Indexes:
within a transaction block, but CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY
cannot.
+
+
+ Concurrent builds for indexes on partitioned tables are currently not
+ supported. However, you may concurrently build the index on each
+ partition individually and then finally create the partitioned index
+ non-concurrently in order to reduce the time where writes to the
+ partitioned table will be locked out. In this case, building the
+ partitioned index is a metadata only operation.
+
+