<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >ABORT</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.73 "><LINK REV="MADE" HREF="mailto:pgsql-docs@postgresql.org"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PostgreSQL 7.3.2 Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="SQL Commands" HREF="sql-commands.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="SQL Commands" HREF="sql-commands.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="ALTER DATABASE" HREF="sql-alterdatabase.html"><LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="stylesheet.css"><META NAME="creation" CONTENT="2003-02-03T20:17:34"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="REFENTRY" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PostgreSQL 7.3.2 Documentation</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="sql-commands.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="sql-alterdatabase.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="SQL-ABORT" >ABORT</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN37178" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 > ABORT -- abort the current transaction </DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN37181" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><PRE CLASS="SYNOPSIS" >ABORT [ WORK | TRANSACTION ] </PRE ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT2" ><A NAME="R2-SQL-ABORT-1" ></A ><H3 > Inputs </H3 ><P > None. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT2" ><A NAME="R2-SQL-ABORT-2" ></A ><H3 > Outputs </H3 ><P > <P ></P ></P><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT ><TT CLASS="COMPUTEROUTPUT" >ROLLBACK </TT ></DT ><DD ><P > Message returned if successful. </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="COMPUTEROUTPUT" >WARNING: ROLLBACK: no transaction in progress </TT ></DT ><DD ><P > If there is not any transaction currently in progress. </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ><P> </P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="R1-SQL-ABORT-1" ></A ><H2 > Description </H2 ><P > <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >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 <SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >SQL92</SPAN > command <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >ROLLBACK</TT >, and is present only for historical reasons. </P ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT2" ><A NAME="R2-SQL-ABORT-3" ></A ><H3 > Notes </H3 ><P > Use <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >COMMIT</TT > to successfully terminate a transaction. </P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="R1-SQL-ABORT-2" ></A ><H2 > Usage </H2 ><P > To abort all changes: </P><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >ABORT WORK; </PRE ><P> </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="R1-SQL-ABORT-3" ></A ><H2 > Compatibility </H2 ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT2" ><A NAME="R2-SQL-ABORT-4" ></A ><H3 > SQL92 </H3 ><P > This command is a <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >PostgreSQL</SPAN > extension present for historical reasons. <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >ROLLBACK</TT > is the <SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >SQL92</SPAN > equivalent command. </P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-commands.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-alterdatabase.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >SQL Commands</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-commands.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >ALTER DATABASE</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >