I wholeheartly agree. AFAIK it does nothing else, but ORACLE likes it.
And most users have experience in ORACLE.
Michael
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> From: Thomas G. Lockhart[SMTP:lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu]
> Sent: Freitag, 13. März 1998 16:04
> To: Michael Meskes
> Cc: PostgreSQL Hacker
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Keyword
>
> > I'm currently trying to get ecpg more in line with the backends
> > parser. Doing so I found ecpg accepts a syntax the backend doesn't.
> > It's 'commit work release' which is accepted for compatibility with
> > Oracle. How about allowing this in the backend, too?
>
> I don't want to sound too fussy here, but does this statement provide
> any functionality missing from the SQL92 syntax 'commit [work]'? If
> not,
> then perhaps Oracle users could start writing portable code if they
> cared to?
>
> - Tom
>