diff --git a/src/help.c b/src/help.c
index 324995d6..cccef04b 100644
--- a/src/help.c
+++ b/src/help.c
@@ -462,8 +462,8 @@ help_validate(void)
 	printf(_("                                   the named restore point to which recovery will proceed\n"));
 	printf(_("      --skip-block-validation      set to validate only file-level checksum\n"));
 
-	printf(_("      --db-include dbname          restore only specified databases\n"));
-	printf(_("      --db-exclude dbname          do not restore specified databases\n"));
+	printf(_("      --db-include dbname          validate only files of specified databases\n"));
+	printf(_("      --db-exclude dbname          do not validate files of specified databases\n"));
 
 	printf(_("\n  Logging options:\n"));
 	printf(_("      --log-level-console=log-level-console\n"));
diff --git a/src/validate.c b/src/validate.c
index 415b258e..bcd3c35f 100644
--- a/src/validate.c
+++ b/src/validate.c
@@ -207,7 +207,11 @@ pgBackupValidateFiles(void *arg)
 		if (arguments->dbOid_exclude_list && file->external_dir_num == 0
 			&& parray_bsearch(arguments->dbOid_exclude_list,
 							   &file->dbOid, pgCompareOid))
+		{
+			elog(VERBOSE, "Skip file validation due to partial restore: \"%s\"",
+				 file->rel_path);
 			continue;
+		}
 
 		/*
 		 * Currently we don't compute checksums for