diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_type.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_type.sgml
index feb69916e0..f100f4d87b 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_type.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_type.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
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-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_type.sgml,v 1.32 2002/08/22 00:01:40 tgl Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_type.sgml,v 1.33 2002/08/23 00:33:24 tgl Exp $
 PostgreSQL documentation
 -->
 
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ CREATE TYPE
 
    <para>
     User-defined type names cannot begin with the underscore character
-    (<quote><literal>_</literal></quote>) and can only be 30
+    (<quote><literal>_</literal></quote>) and can only be 62
     characters long (or in general <literal>NAMEDATALEN-2</>, rather than
     the <literal>NAMEDATALEN-1</> characters allowed for other names).
     Type names beginning with underscore are