diff --git a/substrate/client/cli/src/params/pruning_params.rs b/substrate/client/cli/src/params/pruning_params.rs
index 0f3d101338..fa30aa53b8 100644
--- a/substrate/client/cli/src/params/pruning_params.rs
+++ b/substrate/client/cli/src/params/pruning_params.rs
@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ use sc_service::{KeepBlocks, PruningMode};
 pub struct PruningParams {
 	/// Specify the state pruning mode, a number of blocks to keep or 'archive'.
 	///
-	/// Default is to keep all block states if the node is running as a
-	/// validator (i.e. 'archive'), otherwise state is only kept for the last
-	/// 256 blocks.
+	/// Default is to keep only the last 256 blocks,
+	/// otherwise, the state can be kept for all of the blocks (i.e 'archive'),
+	/// or for all of the canonical blocks (i.e 'archive-canonical').
 	#[clap(long, value_name = "PRUNING_MODE")]
 	pub pruning: Option<String>,
 	/// Specify the number of finalized blocks to keep in the database.
diff --git a/substrate/client/state-db/src/lib.rs b/substrate/client/state-db/src/lib.rs
index 794dec3b95..d5cca9a342 100644
--- a/substrate/client/state-db/src/lib.rs
+++ b/substrate/client/state-db/src/lib.rs
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ impl PruningMode {
 		}
 	}
 
-	/// Is this an archive (either ArchiveAll or ArchiveCanonical) pruning mode?
+	/// Returns the pruning mode
 	pub fn id(&self) -> &[u8] {
 		match self {
 			PruningMode::ArchiveAll => PRUNING_MODE_ARCHIVE,
@@ -247,6 +247,7 @@ impl PruningMode {
 			PruningMode::Constrained(_) => PRUNING_MODE_CONSTRAINED,
 		}
 	}
+
 	pub fn from_id(id: &[u8]) -> Option<Self> {
 		match id {
 			PRUNING_MODE_ARCHIVE => Some(Self::ArchiveAll),