diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml
index 7d9b18c5740..e907da0b5d0 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
@@ -497,12 +497,7 @@ COPY tablename [ ( PostgreSQL will reject
- COPY input if any fields contain embedded line
- end character sequences that do not match the line ending
- convention used in the CSV file itself. It is generally safer to
- import data containing embedded line end characters using the
- text or binary formats rather than CSV.
+ files.