diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/fdwhandler.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/fdwhandler.sgml
index 25832d227fb..b80320504d6 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/fdwhandler.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/fdwhandler.sgml
@@ -67,13 +67,16 @@
foreign tables using the wrapper.
The validator function must be registered as taking two arguments, a
text array containing the options to be validated, and an OID
- representing the type of object the options are associated with (in
- the form of the OID of the system catalog the object would be stored
- in, either
- ForeignDataWrapperRelationId,
- ForeignServerRelationId,
- UserMappingRelationId,
- or ForeignTableRelationId).
+ representing the type of object the options are associated with. The
+ latter corresponds to the OID of the system catalog the object
+ would be stored in, one of:
+
+ AttributeRelationId
+ ForeignDataWrapperRelationId
+ ForeignServerRelationId
+ ForeignTableRelationId
+ UserMappingRelationId
+
If no validator function is supplied, options are not checked at object
creation time or object alteration time.