Re: [HACKERS] Keyword

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>

From: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: Michael Meskes <meskes@topsystem.de>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hacker <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 1998-03-13T15:04:21Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> 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