diff --git a/src/backend/distributed/deparser/deparse_statistics_stmts.c b/src/backend/distributed/deparser/deparse_statistics_stmts.c
index a40150c6e..4e9d6f583 100644
--- a/src/backend/distributed/deparser/deparse_statistics_stmts.c
+++ b/src/backend/distributed/deparser/deparse_statistics_stmts.c
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ AppendColumnNames(StringInfo buf, CreateStatsStmt *stmt)
 
 	foreach_ptr(column, stmt->exprs)
 	{
-		char *columnName = NameListToQuotedString(list_make1(makeString(column->name)));
+		char *columnName = quote_identifier(column->name);
 
 		appendStringInfoString(buf, columnName);