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>ABORT</H1
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>ABORT&nbsp;--&nbsp;abort the current transaction</DIV
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>ABORT [ WORK | TRANSACTION ]</PRE
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>   <TT
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>ABORT</TT
> rolls back the current transaction and causes
   all the updates made by the transaction to be discarded. 
   This command is identical
   in behavior to the standard <ACRONYM
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>SQL</ACRONYM
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   <A
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>ROLLBACK</I
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   and is present only for historical reasons.
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>WORK</TT
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>      Optional key words. They have no effect.
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>   Use <A
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>COMMIT</I
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   successfully terminate a transaction.
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>   Issuing <TT
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   no harm, but it will provoke a warning message.
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>   To abort all changes:
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>ABORT;</PRE
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>   This command is a <SPAN
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>PostgreSQL</SPAN
> extension
   present for historical reasons. <TT
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>ROLLBACK</TT
> is the
   equivalent standard SQL command.
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>BEGIN</I
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>COMMIT</I
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