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Historical version. PostgreSQL 6.5 has reached end of support. See the current manual.

COMMIT

Name

COMMIT — Commits the current transaction
COMMIT [ WORK | TRANSACTION ]
  

Inputs

None.

Outputs

END

Message returned if the transaction is successfully committed.

NOTICE EndTransactionBlock and not inprogress/abort state

If there is no transaction in progress.

Description

COMMIT commits the current transaction. All changes made by the transaction become visible to others and are guaranteed to be durable if a crash occurs.

Notes

The keywords WORK and TRANSACTION are noise and can be omitted.

Use ROLLBACK [source reference unavailable] [source chapter] to abort a transaction.

Usage

To make all changes permanent:

COMMIT WORK;
   

Compatibility

SQL92

Full compatibility.

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Historical source references (1)

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  • sql-rollback.htm#SQL-ROLLBACK-TITLE