diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ltree.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ltree.sgml
index 135f3b0a0f3..98e0ca5c623 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ltree.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ltree.sgml
@@ -32,9 +32,7 @@
labels separated by dots, for example L1.L2.L3, representing
a path from the root of a hierarchical tree to a particular node. The
length of a label path must be less than 65kB, but keeping it under 2kB is
- preferable. In practice this is not a major limitation; for example,
- the longest label path in the DMOZ catalog () is about 271 bytes.
+ preferable.