diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml
index fac440bf9f2a02ac7d7c7c9f6ee6704e861727a4..bdebff077b118f43e654d3bc084f8fb44768a335 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
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+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml,v 1.16 2000/04/18 23:44:58 momjian Exp $
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@@ -196,12 +196,14 @@ ERROR: <replaceable>reason</replaceable>
     stored/read as binary format rather than as text.  It is
     somewhat faster than the normal copy command, but is not
     generally portable, and the files generated are somewhat larger,
-    although this factor is highly dependent on the data itself.  By
-    default, a text copy uses a tab ("\t") character as a delimiter.
+    although this factor is highly dependent on the data itself.  
+    </para>
+    <para>
+    By default, a text copy uses a tab ("\t") character as a delimiter.
     The delimiter may also be changed to any other single character
     with the keyword phrase USING DELIMITERS.  Characters
     in data fields which happen to match the delimiter character will
-    be quoted.
+    be backslash quoted.
    </para>
    
    <para>