diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml
index c49345dd5cdd1e0f9de0e9758b16fb2cf31bdf04..3909f651d2d2b2415fcf17133ef00b201696a498 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml
@@ -278,6 +278,7 @@ The limitations mostly stem from
 difficulty in extracting certain meta-information from the system
 catalogs.
 
+<variablelist>
 <varlistentry>
 <term>
 partial indices
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/unlisten.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/unlisten.sgml
index 1fa0083e04f38867e5ceecd88b78085825ef4212..b353ff6f68d8e4ff568ea4d909fb19164c9f0a23 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/unlisten.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/unlisten.sgml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Stop listening for notification on a notify condition
 <DATE>1998-10-07</DATE>
 </REFSYNOPSISDIVINFO>
 <SYNOPSIS>
-UNLISTEN <REPLACEABLE CLASS="PARAMETER">notifyname</REPLACEABLE> | "*"
+UNLISTEN { <REPLACEABLE CLASS="PARAMETER">notifyname</REPLACEABLE> | * }
 </SYNOPSIS>
 
 <REFSECT2 ID="R2-SQL-UNLISTEN-1">
@@ -38,7 +38,14 @@ Inputs
 <LISTITEM>
 <PARA>
 Name of notify condition to stop listening to.
-If "*", all current listen registrations for this backend are cleared.
+
+<VARLISTENTRY>
+<TERM>
+<literal>*</literal>
+</TERM>
+<LISTITEM>
+<PARA>
+All current listen registrations for this backend are cleared.
 
 </VARIABLELIST>