diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/indices.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/indices.sgml
index 23bbec6..d8eafa8 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/indices.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/indices.sgml
@@ -395,9 +395,9 @@ CREATE INDEX test2_mm_idx ON test2 (major, minor);
- Currently, only the B-tree, GiST and GIN index types support multicolumn
- indexes. Up to 32 columns can be specified. (This limit can be
- altered when building PostgreSQL; see the
+ Currently, only the B-tree, GiST, GIN, and BRIN index types support
+ multicolumn indexes. Up to 32 columns can be specified. (This limit can
+ be altered when building PostgreSQL; see the
file pg_config_manual.h.)
@@ -439,6 +439,15 @@ CREATE INDEX test2_mm_idx ON test2 (major, minor);
index search effectiveness is the same regardless of which index column(s)
the query conditions use.
+
+
+ A multicolumn BRIN index can be used with query conditions that
+ involve any subset of the index's columns. Like GIN and unlike B-tree or
+ GiST, index search effectiveness is the same regardless of which index
+ column(s) the query conditions use. The only reason to have multiple BRIN
+ indexes instead of one multicolumn BRIN index on a single table is to have
+ a different pages_per_range storage parameter.
+
Of course, each column must be used with operators appropriate to the index