-.IP "\fBget-schema\fI server\fR"
-Connects to \fIserver\fR, retrieves the database schema, and prints it
-in JSON format.
-.
-.IP "\fBlist-tables\fI server\fR"
-Connects to \fIserver\fR, retrieves the database schema, and prints
-a table listing the names and comments (if any) on each table within
-the database.
-.
-.IP "\fBlist-columns\fI server \fR[\fItable\fR]"
-Connects to \fIserver\fR, retrieves the database schema, and prints
-a table listing the names, type, and comment (if any) on each column. If
-\fItable\fR is specified, only columns in that table are listed;
-otherwise, the tables include columns in all tables.
-.
-.IP "\fBtransact\fI server transaction\fR"
+.IP "\fBlist\-dbs \fR[\fIserver\fR]"
+Connects to \fIserver\fR, retrieves the list of known databases, and
+prints them one per line. These database names are the ones that may
+be used for \fIdatabase\fR in the following commands.
+.
+.IP "\fBget\-schema \fR[\fIserver\fR] \fR[\fIdatabase\fR]"
+Connects to \fIserver\fR, retrieves the schema for \fIdatabase\fR, and
+prints it in JSON format.
+.
+.IP "\fBget\-schema\-version\fI \fR[\fIserver\fR] \fR[\fIdatabase\fR]"
+Connects to \fIserver\fR, retrieves the schema for \fIdatabase\fR, and
+prints its version number on stdout. A schema version number has the form
+\fIx\fB.\fIy\fB.\fIz\fR. See \fBovs\-vswitchd.conf.db\fR(5) for
+details.
+.IP
+Schema version numbers and Open vSwitch version numbers are
+independent.
+.IP
+If \fIdatabase\fR was created before schema versioning was introduced,
+then it will not have a version number and this command will print a
+blank line.
+.
+.IP "\fBlist\-tables\fI \fR[\fIserver\fR] \fR[\fIdatabase\fR]"
+Connects to \fIserver\fR, retrieves the schema for \fIdatabase\fR, and
+prints a table listing the name of each table
+within the database.
+.
+.IP "\fBlist\-columns\fI \fR[\fIserver\fR] \fR[\fIdatabase\fR] \fItable\fR"
+Connects to \fIserver\fR, retrieves the schema for \fIdatabase\fR, and
+prints a table listing the name and type of each
+column. If \fItable\fR is specified, only columns in that table are
+listed; otherwise, the tables include columns in all tables.
+.
+.IP "\fBtransact\fI \fR[\fIserver\fR] \fItransaction\fR"