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-rw-r--r--funcs/func_db.c13
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/funcs/func_db.c b/funcs/func_db.c
index 640c07a53..1fefa5cc9 100644
--- a/funcs/func_db.c
+++ b/funcs/func_db.c
@@ -102,15 +102,14 @@ static int function_db_write(struct ast_channel *chan, char *cmd, char *parse,
static struct ast_custom_function db_function = {
.name = "DB",
- .synopsis = "Read or Write from/to the Asterisk database",
+ .synopsis = "Read from or write to the Asterisk database",
.syntax = "DB(<family>/<key>)",
.desc =
- "This function will read or write a value from/to the Asterisk database.\n"
- "DB(...) will read a value from the database, while DB(...)=value\n"
- "will write a value to the database. On a read, this function\n"
- "returns the value from the datase, or NULL if it does not exist.\n"
- "On a write, this function will always return NULL. Reading a database value\n"
- "will also set the variable DB_RESULT.\n",
+"This function will read from or write a value to the Asterisk database. On a\n"
+"read, this function returns the corresponding value from the database, or blank\n"
+"if it does not exist. Reading a database value will also set the variable\n"
+"DB_RESULT. If you wish to find out if an entry exists, use the DB_EXISTS\n"
+"function.\n",
.read = function_db_read,
.write = function_db_write,
};