diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml
index 51b95ed04f3..ec62cba8050 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ include_dir         <replaceable>directory</replaceable>
        matches. The value <literal>all</literal> specifies that it
        matches all users.  Otherwise, this is either the name of a specific
        database user, a regular expression (when starting with a slash
-       (<literal>/</literal>), or a group name preceded by <literal>+</literal>.
+       (<literal>/</literal>)), or a group name preceded by <literal>+</literal>.
        (Recall that there is no real distinction between users and groups
        in <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>; a <literal>+</literal> mark really means
        <quote>match any of the roles that are directly or indirectly members