diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml
index 25a86a3cfc4..948e5e361d1 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
       <listitem>
        <para>
         Specify the compression level to use.  Zero means no compression.
-        For the custom archive format, this specifies compression of
+        For the custom and directory archive formats, this specifies compression of
         individual table-data segments, and the default is to compress
         at a moderate level.
         For plain text output, setting a nonzero compression level causes