diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-12.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-12.sgml
index 91301b3e752..4f1bc66f0d6 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-12.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-12.sgml
@@ -374,7 +374,9 @@ Improve performance of many operations on partitioned tables (Amit Langote, Davi
 </para>
 
 <para>
-Tables with thousands of child partitions can now be processed efficiently.
+Tables with thousands of child partitions can now be processed
+efficiently by operations that only need to touch a small number
+of partitions.
 </para>
 </listitem>