hook_nodeapi load is redundant

Unless I'm missing something the following is redundant:

function modr8_nodeapi(&$node, $op, $teaser = NULL, $page = NULL) {
  // add messages here..
  switch ($op) {
    case 'load':
      return db_fetch_array(db_query('SELECT n.moderate FROM {node} n WHERE n.nid = %d', $node->nid));

The node_load function already loads the moderate field from the node table because it is listed by the node_schema function.