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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
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+++ b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
@@ -4801,7 +4801,13 @@ SELECT * FROM pg_attribute
standard comparison operators, like <literal>=</literal> and
<literal>&gt;</literal>. Two LSNs can be subtracted using the
<literal>-</literal> operator; the result is the number of bytes separating
- those write-ahead log locations.
+ those write-ahead log locations. Also the number of bytes can be
+ added into and subtracted from LSN using the
+ <literal>+(pg_lsn,numeric)</literal> and
+ <literal>-(pg_lsn,numeric)</literal> operators, respectively. Note that
+ the calculated LSN should be in the range of <type>pg_lsn</type> type,
+ i.e., between <literal>0/0</literal> and
+ <literal>FFFFFFFF/FFFFFFFF</literal>.
</para>
</sect1>