diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index fb387584ed5..6d5501b3b35 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
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+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.117 2002/08/22 04:56:44 momjian Exp $
 PostgreSQL documentation
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@@ -2238,9 +2238,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
    <para>
     It's also possible to select no escape character by writing
     <literal>ESCAPE ''</literal>.  This effectively disables the
-     escape mechanism and
-     turns off the special meaning of underscore and percent signs in
-    the pattern.
+    escape mechanism, which makes it impossible to turn off the
+    special meaning of underscore and percent signs in the pattern.
    </para>
 
    <para>