diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/values.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/values.sgml
index d3a3aaff140..b0b0e24ae76 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/values.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/values.sgml
@@ -198,10 +198,10 @@ UPDATE employees SET salary = salary * v.increase
   WHERE employees.depno = v.depno AND employees.sales >= v.target;
 </programlisting>
 
-   Note that an <literal>AS</literal> clause is required when <command>VALUES</command>
-   is used in a <literal>FROM</literal> clause, just as is true for
-   <command>SELECT</command>.  It is not required that the <literal>AS</literal> clause
-   specify names for all the columns, but it's good practice to do so.
+   Note that a table alias is required when <command>VALUES</command> is used in
+   a <literal>FROM</literal> clause, just as is true for <command>SELECT</command>.
+   Assigning alias names to the columns of the <command>VALUES</command> list
+   is optional, but is good practice.
    (The default column names for <command>VALUES</command> are <literal>column1</literal>,
    <literal>column2</literal>, etc in <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>, but
    these names might be different in other database systems.)