> The answer is to drop the {} braces from the query. Are the braces
> part of the specification, or just common usage (Oracle and MS-SQL
> for starters)? I couldn't find anything that documented this.

Braces are part of the specification. I will check this again (I had a
report already), so far I could not reproduce it.

It would be very helpful if you can create a standalone reproducable test
case.

Roman