diff --git a/src/pl/plperl/expected/plperl.out b/src/pl/plperl/expected/plperl.out
index d8a1ff5dd8..e3d7c8896a 100644
--- a/src/pl/plperl/expected/plperl.out
+++ b/src/pl/plperl/expected/plperl.out
@@ -724,9 +724,9 @@ DO $do$ use strict; my $name = "foo"; my $ref = $$name; $do$ LANGUAGE plperl;
 ERROR:  Can't use string ("foo") as a SCALAR ref while "strict refs" in use at line 1.
 CONTEXT:  PL/Perl anonymous code block
 -- check that we can "use warnings" (in this case to turn a warn into an error)
--- yields "ERROR:  Useless use of sort in scalar context."
-DO $do$ use warnings FATAL => qw(void) ; my @y; my $x = sort @y; 1; $do$ LANGUAGE plperl;
-ERROR:  Useless use of sort in scalar context at line 1.
+-- yields "ERROR:  Useless use of sort in void context."
+DO $do$ use warnings FATAL => qw(void) ; my @y; sort @y; 1; $do$ LANGUAGE plperl;
+ERROR:  Useless use of sort in void context at line 1.
 CONTEXT:  PL/Perl anonymous code block
 -- make sure functions marked as VOID without an explicit return work
 CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION myfuncs() RETURNS void AS $$
diff --git a/src/pl/plperl/sql/plperl.sql b/src/pl/plperl/sql/plperl.sql
index b0d950b230..bb0b8ce4cb 100644
--- a/src/pl/plperl/sql/plperl.sql
+++ b/src/pl/plperl/sql/plperl.sql
@@ -469,8 +469,8 @@ DO $$ use blib; $$ LANGUAGE plperl;
 DO $do$ use strict; my $name = "foo"; my $ref = $$name; $do$ LANGUAGE plperl;
 
 -- check that we can "use warnings" (in this case to turn a warn into an error)
--- yields "ERROR:  Useless use of sort in scalar context."
-DO $do$ use warnings FATAL => qw(void) ; my @y; my $x = sort @y; 1; $do$ LANGUAGE plperl;
+-- yields "ERROR:  Useless use of sort in void context."
+DO $do$ use warnings FATAL => qw(void) ; my @y; sort @y; 1; $do$ LANGUAGE plperl;
 
 -- make sure functions marked as VOID without an explicit return work
 CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION myfuncs() RETURNS void AS $$