Historical version. PostgreSQL 10 has reached end of support. 2022-11-10. See the current manual.
ROLLBACK
ROLLBACK — abort the current transaction
Synopsis
ROLLBACK [ WORK | TRANSACTION ]
Description
ROLLBACK rolls back the current transaction and causes
all the updates made by the transaction to be discarded.
Parameters
WORKTRANSACTIONOptional key words. They have no effect.
Notes
Use COMMIT to successfully terminate a transaction.
Issuing ROLLBACK outside of a transaction
block emits a warning and otherwise has no effect.
Examples
To abort all changes:
ROLLBACK;
Compatibility
The SQL standard only specifies the two forms
ROLLBACK and ROLLBACK
WORK. Otherwise, this command is fully conforming.
See Also
BEGIN, COMMIT, ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINTReport a documentation issue
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