diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml
index e9707e200b5..16b657389aa 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml
@@ -1301,7 +1301,7 @@ synchronous_standby_names = 'ANY 2 (s1, s2, s3)'
synchronous_commit is set to on,
remote_apply or remote_write will wait for
responses from. Such transaction commits may never be completed
- if any one of synchronous standbys should crash.
+ if any one of the synchronous standbys should crash.