Commit
Ends the current transaction block and finalizes changes made within it.
Synopsis
COMMIT [ WORK | TRANSACTION ]
Parameters
WORK | TRANSACTION
A pair of optional noise keywords. They can be ignored, or used to make your SQL more readable.
Results
COMMIT
The message returned when the current transaction is successfully committed.
NOTICE: COMMIT: no transaction in progress
The notice returned if there is no current transaction for the
COMMIT
command to actually commit.
Description
Use the COMMIT
command to finalize the current transaction. Once a
COMMIT
is performed, any modifications made by the transaction are saved
into the database.
Note
If something unintended happens during a transaction block, you can use the ROLLBACK
command to abort the current transaction. This undoes the effect of any
SQL executed after the last BEGIN
statement.
Examples
The following example begins a transaction, modifies data, and then commits the modifications:
booktown=# BEGIN WORK; BEGIN booktown=# INSERT INTO employees VALUES (106, 'Hall', 'Timothy'); INSERT 3574402 1 booktown=# COMMIT WORK; COMMIT
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