diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml
index 038a376f4a..e9443674f8 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
can be used to examine the archive and/or select which parts of the
database are to be restored. The most flexible output file formats are
the custom format () and the
- directory format(). They allow
+ directory format (). They allow
for selection and reordering of all archived items, support parallel
restoration, and are compressed by default. The directory
format is the only format that supports parallel dumps.