diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index 8fad06f0da1..db7c56b9782 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -7497,7 +7497,7 @@ CREATE TYPE rainbow AS ENUM ('red', 'orange', 'yellow', 'green', 'blue', 'purple
        </row>
        <row>
         <entry><literal><function>path(<type>polygon</type>)</function></literal></entry>
-        <entry><type>point</type></entry>
+        <entry><type>path</type></entry>
         <entry>polygon to path</entry>
         <entry><literal>path(polygon '((0,0),(1,1),(2,0))')</literal></entry>
        </row>