diff --git a/reference/mysql/functions/mysql-error.xml b/reference/mysql/functions/mysql-error.xml
index 1de2420f97..5b68e1a290 100644
--- a/reference/mysql/functions/mysql-error.xml
+++ b/reference/mysql/functions/mysql-error.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.7 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.8 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/mysql.xml, last change in rev 1.2 -->
   <refentry id="function.mysql-error">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -19,7 +19,10 @@
      </methodsynopsis>
     <para>
      Returns the error text from the last MySQL function, or
-     <literal>''</literal> (the empty string) if no error occurred.
+     <literal>''</literal> (the empty string) if no error occurred. 
+     If not connection is explicitely passed to the function, the last
+     successful connection will be used to retrieve the error message
+     from the MySQL server.
     </para>
     <para>
      Errors coming back from the MySQL database backend no longer