diff --git a/pkg/sql/vars.go b/pkg/sql/vars.go
index 5ac648f63f80..311a7c9a10ee 100644
--- a/pkg/sql/vars.go
+++ b/pkg/sql/vars.go
@@ -847,8 +847,9 @@ var varGen = map[string]sessionVar{
 					// TODO(knz): if/when we want to support this, we'll need to change
 					// the interface between GetStringVal() and Set() to take string
 					// arrays instead of a single string.
-					return "", unimplemented.Newf("schema names containing commas in search_path",
-						"schema name %q not supported in search_path", s)
+					return "", unimplemented.NewWithIssuef(53971,
+						`schema name %q has commas so is not supported in search_path.
+Did you mean to omit quotes? SET search_path = %s`, s, s)
 				}
 				buf.WriteString(comma)
 				buf.WriteString(s)