diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/insert.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/insert.sgml
index 189ce2a0caa..f995a7637f1 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/insert.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/insert.sgml
@@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ INSERT oid countcount is the number of
rows inserted or updated. oid is always 0 (it
used to be the OID assigned to the inserted row if
- rows was exactly one and the target table was
+ count was exactly one and the target table was
declared WITH OIDS and 0 otherwise, but creating a table
WITH OIDS is not supported anymore).