diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml
index 7763f58b0b9..7ea480adc10 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml
@@ -1157,6 +1157,9 @@ CREATE DATABASE foo WITH TEMPLATE template0;
dump was taken from a server of that version. Loading a dump file
into an older server may require manual editing of the dump file
to remove syntax not understood by the older server.
+ Use of the option is recommended
+ in cross-version cases, as it can prevent problems arising from varying
+ reserved-word lists in different PostgreSQL> versions.