diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_trigger.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_trigger.sgml
index 202610a6fed..1e27b6ff3a0 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_trigger.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_trigger.sgml
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ UPDATE OF column_name1 [, column_name2
Modifying a partitioned table or a table with inheritance children fires
statement-level triggers attached to the explicitly named table, but not
statement-level triggers for its partitions or child tables. In contrast,
- row-level triggers are fired on the rows in effected partitions or
+ row-level triggers are fired on the rows in affected partitions or
child tables, even if they are not explicitly named in the query.
If a statement-level trigger has been defined with transition relations
named by a REFERENCING clause, then before and after