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-rw-r--r--src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
index cb0d1c54f68..7ca7e8820de 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
@@ -2979,8 +2979,8 @@ static struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
{
{"effective_cache_size", PGC_USERSET, QUERY_TUNING_COST,
- gettext_noop("Sets the planner's assumption about the size of the data cache."),
- gettext_noop("That is, the size of the cache used for PostgreSQL data files. "
+ gettext_noop("Sets the planner's assumption about the total size of the data caches."),
+ gettext_noop("That is, the total size of the caches (kernel cache and shared buffers) used for PostgreSQL data files. "
"This is measured in disk pages, which are normally 8 kB each."),
GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS,
},