diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-12.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-12.sgml
index 3486cbdd4b..4155bd68f8 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-12.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-12.sgml
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ Improve performance of many operations on partitioned tables (Amit Langote, Davi
 </para>
 
 <para>
-Thousands of partitions can now be pruned efficiently.
+Tables with thousands of child partitions can now be processed efficiently.
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