ROLLBACK
Section: PostgreSQL 15.6 Documentation (7)
Updated: 2024
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NAME
ROLLBACK - abort the current transaction
SYNOPSIS
ROLLBACK [ WORK | TRANSACTION ] [ AND [ NO ] CHAIN ]
DESCRIPTION
ROLLBACK
rolls back the current transaction and causes all the updates made by the transaction to be discarded.
PARAMETERS
WORK
TRANSACTION
-
Optional key words. They have no effect.
AND CHAIN
-
If
AND CHAIN
is specified, a new transaction is immediately started with the same transaction characteristics (see
SET TRANSACTION (SET_TRANSACTION(7))) as the just finished one. Otherwise, no new transaction is started.
NOTES
Use
COMMIT
to successfully terminate a transaction.
Issuing
ROLLBACK
outside of a transaction block emits a warning and otherwise has no effect.
ROLLBACK AND CHAIN
outside of a transaction block is an error.
EXAMPLES
To abort all changes:
-
ROLLBACK;
COMPATIBILITY
The command
ROLLBACK
conforms to the SQL standard. The form
ROLLBACK TRANSACTION
is a PostgreSQL extension.
SEE ALSO
BEGIN(7), COMMIT(7), ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT (ROLLBACK_TO_SAVEPOINT(7))
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- PARAMETERS
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- NOTES
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- EXAMPLES
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- COMPATIBILITY
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- SEE ALSO
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