diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml
index 487af1fed88..405fe6dc8b9 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml
@@ -164,6 +164,7 @@
the WAL archiver,
the WAL receiver
(but not the WAL senders),
+ the WAL summarizer,
and the WAL writer.
@@ -2199,7 +2200,7 @@
WAL summarizer (process)
- A special backend process
+ An auxiliary process
that summarizes WAL data for
incremental backups.