diff --git a/django/core/db/backends/postgresql.py b/django/core/db/backends/postgresql.py
index b2bfc613e4..cf7c152f67 100644
--- a/django/core/db/backends/postgresql.py
+++ b/django/core/db/backends/postgresql.py
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ def get_last_insert_id(cursor, table_name, pk_name):
 try:
     Database.register_type(Database.new_type((1082,), "DATE", typecasts.typecast_date))
 except AttributeError:
-    raise Exception, "You appear to be using Psycopg version 2, which isn't supported yet, because it's still in beta. Use psycopg version 1 instead: http://initd.org/projects/psycopg1"
+    raise Exception, "You appear to be using psycopg version 2, which isn't supported yet, because it's still in beta. Use psycopg version 1 instead: http://initd.org/projects/psycopg1"
 Database.register_type(Database.new_type((1083,1266), "TIME", typecasts.typecast_time))
 Database.register_type(Database.new_type((1114,1184), "TIMESTAMP", typecasts.typecast_timestamp))
 Database.register_type(Database.new_type((16,), "BOOLEAN", typecasts.typecast_boolean))