diff --git a/src/common/unicode_norm.c b/src/common/unicode_norm.c
index affec88f99..ab56490a07 100644
--- a/src/common/unicode_norm.c
+++ b/src/common/unicode_norm.c
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ decompose_code(pg_wchar code, pg_wchar **result, int *current)
  * The input is a 0-terminated array of codepoints.
  *
  * In frontend, returns a 0-terminated array of codepoints, allocated with
- * malloc. Or NULL if we run out of memory. In frontend, the returned
+ * malloc. Or NULL if we run out of memory. In backend, the returned
  * string is palloc'd instead, and OOM is reported with ereport().
  */
 pg_wchar *