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Unsupported versions: 7.0 / 6.5 / 6.4
Historical version. PostgreSQL 6.4 reached end of support in October 2003. See the current manual for supported releases.

ROLLBACK

Name

ROLLBACK — Aborts the current transaction
ROLLBACK [ WORK ]

Inputs

None.

Outputs

ABORT

Message returned if successful.

NOTICE: UserAbortTransactionBlock and not in in-progress state ABORT

If there is not any transaction currently in progress.

Description

ROLLBACK rolls back the current transaction and causes all the updates made by the transaction to be discarded.

Notes

The keyword WORK is noise and can be omitted.

Use the COMMIT statement to successfully terminate a transaction.

Usage

--To abort all changes:
--
ROLLBACK WORK;

Compatibility

SQL92

Full compatibility.

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