diff --git a/src/backend/libpq/auth.c b/src/backend/libpq/auth.c
index 2751183c3e694dac307344ed08e6c75682b1bdd2..f21056e2445d8db9cd67b36663d38552f668ffe3 100644
--- a/src/backend/libpq/auth.c
+++ b/src/backend/libpq/auth.c
@@ -1242,8 +1242,8 @@ pg_SSPI_recvauth(Port *port)
 
 	if (!GetTokenInformation(token, TokenUser, NULL, 0, &retlen) && GetLastError() != 122)
 		ereport(ERROR,
-			(errmsg_internal("could not get token user size: error code %lu",
-							 GetLastError())));
+				(errmsg_internal("could not get token information buffer size: error code %lu",
+								 GetLastError())));
 
 	tokenuser = malloc(retlen);
 	if (tokenuser == NULL)
@@ -1252,8 +1252,8 @@ pg_SSPI_recvauth(Port *port)
 
 	if (!GetTokenInformation(token, TokenUser, tokenuser, retlen, &retlen))
 		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errmsg_internal("could not get token user: error code %lu",
-								 GetLastError())));
+		  (errmsg_internal("could not get token information: error code %lu",
+						   GetLastError())));
 
 	CloseHandle(token);
 
diff --git a/src/port/win32security.c b/src/port/win32security.c
index d3eba9a20b570cb682ccf61f69caf9a0dabcf783..ab9cd67748dd026f65ede6ad23d6e508470d99fe 100644
--- a/src/port/win32security.c
+++ b/src/port/win32security.c
@@ -248,14 +248,14 @@ pgwin32_get_dynamic_tokeninfo(HANDLE token, TOKEN_INFORMATION_CLASS class,
 	if (GetTokenInformation(token, class, NULL, 0, &InfoBufferSize))
 	{
 		snprintf(errbuf, errsize,
-				 "could not get token information: got zero size\n");
+			 "could not get token information buffer size: got zero size\n");
 		return FALSE;
 	}
 
 	if (GetLastError() != ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER)
 	{
 		snprintf(errbuf, errsize,
-				 "could not get token information: error code %lu\n",
+			 "could not get token information buffer size: error code %lu\n",
 				 GetLastError());
 		return FALSE;
 	}
diff --git a/src/test/regress/pg_regress.c b/src/test/regress/pg_regress.c
index 343fd19b554a630dd1c2f8560df2bc200636a839..167444591df41a4e50f70b89150bf36577af277b 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/pg_regress.c
+++ b/src/test/regress/pg_regress.c
@@ -904,7 +904,7 @@ current_windows_user(const char **acct, const char **dom)
 	if (!GetTokenInformation(token, TokenUser, NULL, 0, &retlen) && GetLastError() != 122)
 	{
 		fprintf(stderr,
-				_("%s: could not get token user size: error code %lu\n"),
+				_("%s: could not get token information buffer size: error code %lu\n"),
 				progname, GetLastError());
 		exit(2);
 	}
@@ -912,7 +912,7 @@ current_windows_user(const char **acct, const char **dom)
 	if (!GetTokenInformation(token, TokenUser, tokenuser, retlen, &retlen))
 	{
 		fprintf(stderr,
-				_("%s: could not get token user: error code %lu\n"),
+				_("%s: could not get token information: error code %lu\n"),
 				progname, GetLastError());
 		exit(2);
 	}