diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/databases/postgresql.md b/nixos/modules/services/databases/postgresql.md
index 7ff4df971915..d90c503eeab7 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/databases/postgresql.md
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/databases/postgresql.md
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ These instructions are also applicable to other versions.
 
 Major PostgreSQL upgrades require a downtime and a few imperative steps to be called. This is the case because
 each major version has some internal changes in the databases' state. Because of that,
-NixOS places the state into {file}`/var/lib/postgresql/<version>` where each `version`
+NixOS places the state into {file}`/var/lib/postgresql/$psqlSchema` where `$psqlSchema`
 can be obtained like this:
 ```
 $ nix-instantiate --eval -A postgresql_15.psqlSchema