Fixed incorrect description of EXEC SQL VAR command.

Thanks to MauMau  for finding and fixing this.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ecpg.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ecpg.sgml
index 4d904cdeb8815cbbcdf0c0fd84ade6de8c9830ae..fc9ba0c0186729787355c0ebd106462d3d2e6650 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ecpg.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ecpg.sgml
@@ -7682,9 +7682,9 @@ VAR varname IS ctype
     Description
 
     
-     The VAR command defines a host variable.  It
-     is equivalent to an ordinary C variable definition inside a
-     declare section.
+     The VAR command assigns a new C data type
+     to a host variable.  The host variable must be previously
+     declared in a declare section.
     
    
 
@@ -7716,8 +7716,10 @@ VAR varname IS ctype
     Examples
 
 
-EXEC SQL VAR vc IS VARCHAR[10];
-EXEC SQL VAR boolvar IS bool;
+Exec sql begin declare section;
+short a;
+exec sql end declare section;
+EXEC SQL VAR a IS int;