<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>47.4. Transaction Management</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css" /><link rev="made" href="pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot" /><link rel="prev" href="spi-spi-freeplan.html" title="SPI_freeplan" /><link rel="next" href="spi-spi-commit.html" title="SPI_commit" /></head><body><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional" class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="5" align="center">47.4. Transaction Management</th></tr><tr><td width="10%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="spi-spi-freeplan.html" title="SPI_freeplan">Prev</a> </td><td width="10%" align="left"><a accesskey="u" href="spi.html" title="Chapter 47. Server Programming Interface">Up</a></td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 47. Server Programming Interface</th><td width="10%" align="right"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html" title="PostgreSQL 11.5 Documentation">Home</a></td><td width="10%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="spi-spi-commit.html" title="SPI_commit">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></hr></div><div class="sect1" id="SPI-TRANSACTION"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both">47.4. Transaction Management</h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><dl class="toc"><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="spi-spi-commit.html">SPI_commit</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — commit the current transaction</span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="spi-spi-rollback.html">SPI_rollback</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — abort the current transaction</span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="spi-spi-start-transaction.html">SPI_start_transaction</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — start a new transaction</span></dt></dl></div><p> It is not possible to run transaction control commands such as <code class="command">COMMIT</code> and <code class="command">ROLLBACK</code> through SPI functions such as <code class="function">SPI_execute</code>. There are, however, separate interface functions that allow transaction control through SPI. </p><p> It is not generally safe and sensible to start and end transactions in arbitrary user-defined SQL-callable functions without taking into account the context in which they are called. For example, a transaction boundary in the middle of a function that is part of a complex SQL expression that is part of some SQL command will probably result in obscure internal errors or crashes. The interface functions presented here are primarily intended to be used by procedural language implementations to support transaction management in SQL-level procedures that are invoked by the <code class="command">CALL</code> command, taking the context of the <code class="command">CALL</code> invocation into account. SPI-using procedures implemented in C can implement the same logic, but the details of that are beyond the scope of this documentation. </p></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="spi-spi-freeplan.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="spi.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="spi-spi-commit.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">SPI_freeplan </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> SPI_commit</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
