diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index e88afe23c40..9a1ef306e02 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -46,9 +46,9 @@ Fix VACUUM problem with moving chain of update tuples when source and
 Fix user.c CommandCounterIncrement (Tom)
 Fix for AM/PM boundary problem in to_char() (Karel Zak)
 Fix TIME aggregate handling (Tom)
-Fix to_char() to avoid coredump on NULL input.  (Tom)
+Fix to_char() to avoid coredump on NULL input (Tom)
 Buffer fix (Tom)
-Fix for inserting/copying longer multibyte strings into bpchar data
+Fix for inserting/copying longer multibyte strings into char() data
     types (Tatsuo)
 
 
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
index 989351479ae..ed18d8535f7 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!--
-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.49.2.7 2000/11/03 03:42:55 momjian Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.49.2.8 2000/11/03 04:17:55 momjian Exp $
 -->
 
  <chapter id="release">
@@ -72,9 +72,9 @@ Fix VACUUM problem with moving chain of update tuples when source and
 Fix user.c CommandCounterIncrement (Tom)
 Fix for AM/PM boundary problem in to_char() (Karel Zak)
 Fix TIME aggregate handling (Tom)
-Fix to_char() to avoid coredump on NULL input.  (Tom)
+Fix to_char() to avoid coredump on NULL input (Tom)
 Buffer fix (Tom)
-Fix for inserting/copying longer multibyte strings into bpchar data
+Fix for inserting/copying longer multibyte strings into char() data
     types (Tatsuo)
      </programlisting>
     </para>