diff --git a/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c b/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c
index 967ced4eed..b7dda5ab27 100644
--- a/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c
+++ b/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c
@@ -753,16 +753,14 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
 	 * Custom and directory formats are compressed by default with gzip when
 	 * available, not the others.
 	 */
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBZ
 	if ((archiveFormat == archCustom || archiveFormat == archDirectory) &&
 		!user_compression_defined)
 	{
-#ifdef HAVE_LIBZ
 		parse_compress_specification(PG_COMPRESSION_GZIP, NULL,
 									 &compression_spec);
-#else
-		/* Nothing to do in the default case */
-#endif
 	}
+#endif
 
 	/*
 	 * If emitting an archive format, we always want to emit a DATABASE item,