diff --git a/docs/configuration.rst b/docs/configuration.rst
index 0cc8f5ec..cb48ddce 100644
--- a/docs/configuration.rst
+++ b/docs/configuration.rst
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ PostgreSQL default is to use ASCII. Either change your client settings,
 or specify the encoding by appending ``?client_encoding=utf8`` to the
 connection string. This will look like::
 
-    SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = 'postgresql://myuser:mypass@localhost/dbname?client_encoding=utf8'
+    SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = 'postgresql://myuser:mypass@localhost/mydb?client_encoding=utf8'
 
 .. _the SQLAlchemy documentation: http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/core/engines.html#database-urls