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diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_statistic.h b/src/include/catalog/pg_statistic.h
index 0e831ef2982..edccf254b1b 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_statistic.h
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_statistic.h
@@ -244,6 +244,8 @@ typedef FormData_pg_statistic *Form_pg_statistic;
* type with identifiable elements (for instance, tsvector). staop contains
* the equality operator appropriate to the element type. stavalues contains
* the most common element values, and stanumbers their frequencies. Unlike
+ * MCV slots, frequencies are measured as the fraction of non-null rows the
+ * element value appears in, not the frequency of all rows. Also unlike
* MCV slots, the values are sorted into order (to support binary search
* for a particular value). Since this puts the minimum and maximum
* frequencies at unpredictable spots in stanumbers, there are two extra