diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
index 5efbfe97b5..a71c8821f6 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
@@ -10406,28 +10406,29 @@ dynamic_library_path = 'C:\tools\postgresql;H:\my_project\lib;$libdir'
       </term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
-        When set to 1, each cache lookup for a system catalog entry is
-        invalidated at the first possible opportunity, irrespective of whether
+        When set to <literal>1</literal>, each system catalog cache entry is
+        invalidated at the first possible opportunity, whether or not
         anything that would render it invalid really occurred.  Caching of
         system catalogs is effectively disabled as a result, so the server
         will run extremely slowly.  Higher values run the cache invalidation
-        recursively, which is even slower and useful only useful for testing
-        in very specific scenarios.
+        recursively, which is even slower and only useful for testing
+        the caching logic itself.  The default value of <literal>0</literal>
+        selects normal catalog caching behavior.
        </para>
 
        <para>
-        This option can be very helpful when trying to trigger
-        hard-to-reproduce bugs involving concurrency and catalog changes but
+        This parameter can be very helpful when trying to trigger
+        hard-to-reproduce bugs involving concurrent catalog changes, but it
         is otherwise rarely needed.  See the source code files
         <filename>inval.c</filename> and
         <filename>pg_config_manual.h</filename> for details.
        </para>
 
        <para>
-        This setting is supported but off by default (0) when
-        <symbol>CLOBBER_CACHE_ENABLED</symbol> is defined at compile time
+        This parameter is supported when
+        <symbol>CLOBBER_CACHE_ENABLED</symbol> was defined at compile time
         (which happens automatically when using the
-        <literal>configure</literal> option
+        <application>configure</application> option
         <option>--enable-cassert</option>).  In production builds, its value
         will always be <literal>0</literal> and attempts to set it to another
         value will raise an error.