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
> 

Sat, 14 Mar 1998 19:20:39 +0100
"Meskes, Michael" <meskes@topsystem.de>
RE: [HACKERS] Keyword