diff --git a/executor/show.go b/executor/show.go
index 0c10de649234e..773e7e6d8e85b 100644
--- a/executor/show.go
+++ b/executor/show.go
@@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ func (e *ShowExec) fetchShowCreateTable() error {
 
 	// Displayed if the compression typed is set.
 	if len(tb.Meta().Compression) != 0 {
-		buf.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf(" COMPRESSION=`%s`", tb.Meta().Compression))
+		buf.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf(" COMPRESSION='%s'", tb.Meta().Compression))
 	}
 
 	// add partition info here.
diff --git a/executor/show_test.go b/executor/show_test.go
index 2f61d67a6a371..6d548ece3854a 100644
--- a/executor/show_test.go
+++ b/executor/show_test.go
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ func (s *testSuite) TestShow(c *C) {
 	tk.MustQuery("show create table t1").Check(testutil.RowsWithSep("|",
 		"t1 CREATE TABLE `t1` (\n"+
 			"  `c1` int(11) DEFAULT NULL\n"+
-			") ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_bin COMPRESSION=`zlib`",
+			") ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_bin COMPRESSION='zlib'",
 	))
 
 	// Test show create table year type