diff --git a/COPYRIGHT.txt b/COPYRIGHT.txt
index d203e9140..fe3c31bd8 100644
--- a/COPYRIGHT.txt
+++ b/COPYRIGHT.txt
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ Horia Chiorean
 Ian Axelrod
 Igor Gabaydulin
 Ilia Bogdanov
+Ivan Klass
 Ivan Kovbas
 Ivan Lorenz
 Ivan Luzyanin
diff --git a/debezium-core/src/main/java/io/debezium/relational/history/DatabaseHistory.java b/debezium-core/src/main/java/io/debezium/relational/history/DatabaseHistory.java
index 675e39dce..f6607e5dc 100644
--- a/debezium-core/src/main/java/io/debezium/relational/history/DatabaseHistory.java
+++ b/debezium-core/src/main/java/io/debezium/relational/history/DatabaseHistory.java
@@ -82,8 +82,8 @@ public interface DatabaseHistory {
      *            {@link #recover(Map, Map, Tables, DdlParser) recovery}; may be null if the
      *            {@link HistoryRecordComparator#INSTANCE default comparator} is to be used
      * @param listener TODO
-     * @param useCatalogBeforeSchema true if the parsed string for a table contains only 2 items and the first should be used as 
-                             the catalog and the second as the table name, or false if the first should be used as the schema and the 
+     * @param useCatalogBeforeSchema true if the parsed string for a table contains only 2 items and the first should be used as
+                             the catalog and the second as the table name, or false if the first should be used as the schema and the
                              second as the table name
      */
     void configure(Configuration config, HistoryRecordComparator comparator, DatabaseHistoryListener listener, boolean useCatalogBeforeSchema);
@@ -128,15 +128,14 @@ public interface DatabaseHistory {
     void stop();
 
     /**
-     * Determines if the DatabaseHistory entity exists
-     * @return
+     * Determines if the database history entity exists; i.e. the storage must have
+     * been initialized and the history must have been populated.
      */
     boolean exists();
 
     /**
-     * Determines if the underlying storage exists.
-     * Note: storage may exists while history entities not yet written, see {@link #exists()}
-     * @return
+     * Determines if the underlying storage exists (e.g. a Kafka topic, file or similar).
+     * Note: storage may exist while history entities not yet written, see {@link #exists()}
      */
     boolean storageExists();
 
diff --git a/debezium-core/src/test/java/io/debezium/relational/history/KafkaDatabaseHistoryTest.java b/debezium-core/src/test/java/io/debezium/relational/history/KafkaDatabaseHistoryTest.java
index c8c145f72..a02177bff 100644
--- a/debezium-core/src/test/java/io/debezium/relational/history/KafkaDatabaseHistoryTest.java
+++ b/debezium-core/src/test/java/io/debezium/relational/history/KafkaDatabaseHistoryTest.java
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 import org.junit.Test;
 
 import io.debezium.config.Configuration;
+import io.debezium.doc.FixFor;
 import io.debezium.kafka.KafkaCluster;
 import io.debezium.relational.Tables;
 import io.debezium.relational.ddl.DdlParserSql2003;
@@ -298,6 +299,7 @@ public void testExists() {
     }
 
     @Test
+    @FixFor("DBZ-1886")
     public void differentiateStorageExistsFromHistoryExists() {
         Configuration config = Configuration.create()
                 .with(KafkaDatabaseHistory.BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS, kafka.brokerList())
@@ -326,5 +328,6 @@ public void differentiateStorageExistsFromHistoryExists() {
                 "CREATE TABLE products ( productId INTEGER NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, desc VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL); \n";
         history.record(source, position, "db1", ddl);
         assertTrue(history.exists());
+        assertTrue(history.storageExists());
     }
 }