diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.6.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.6.sgml
index 7a37f3f44be..dc7b4793873 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.6.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.6.sgml
@@ -5004,7 +5004,7 @@ This commit is also listed under libpq and PL/pgSQL
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        <para>
         Allow the number of client connections (<option>-c</>) to not
-        be an exact multiple of the number of threads (<option>-t</>)
+        be an exact multiple of the number of threads (<option>-j</>)
         (Fabien Coelho)
        </para>
       </listitem>