diff --git a/db/db_properties_test.cc b/db/db_properties_test.cc
index 0ea1d7d92b..e0ad3ab9f2 100644
--- a/db/db_properties_test.cc
+++ b/db/db_properties_test.cc
@@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ TEST_F(DBPropertiesTest, NumImmutableMemTable) {
     ASSERT_TRUE(dbfull()->GetProperty(
         handles_[1], "rocksdb.cur-size-active-mem-table", &num));
     // "384" is the size of the metadata of two empty skiplists, this would
-    // break if we change the default vectorrep/skiplist implementation
+    // break if we change the default skiplist implementation
     ASSERT_EQ(num, "384");
 
     uint64_t int_num;
diff --git a/db/memtable.cc b/db/memtable.cc
index b3f0b65e14..338dcf69e6 100644
--- a/db/memtable.cc
+++ b/db/memtable.cc
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ MemTable::MemTable(const InternalKeyComparator& cmp,
       table_(ioptions.memtable_factory->CreateMemTableRep(
           comparator_, &allocator_, ioptions.prefix_extractor,
           ioptions.info_log)),
-      range_del_table_(ioptions.memtable_factory->CreateMemTableRep(
+      range_del_table_(SkipListFactory().CreateMemTableRep(
           comparator_, &allocator_, nullptr /* transform */,
           ioptions.info_log)),
       data_size_(0),