<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >COMMIT</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="COMMENT" HREF="sql-comment.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="COPY" HREF="sql-copy.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-comment.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="sql-copy.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="SQL-COMMIT" >COMMIT</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN38304" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 > COMMIT -- commit the current transaction </DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN38307" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><PRE CLASS="SYNOPSIS" >COMMIT [ WORK | TRANSACTION ] </PRE ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT2" ><A NAME="R2-SQL-COMMIT-1" ></A ><H3 > Inputs </H3 ><P > <P ></P ></P><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT >WORK<BR>TRANSACTION</DT ><DD ><P > Optional keywords. They have no effect. </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ><P> </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT2" ><A NAME="R2-SQL-COMMIT-2" ></A ><H3 > Outputs </H3 ><P > <P ></P ></P><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT ><TT CLASS="COMPUTEROUTPUT" >COMMIT </TT ></DT ><DD ><P > Message returned if the transaction is successfully committed. </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="COMPUTEROUTPUT" >WARNING: COMMIT: no transaction in progress </TT ></DT ><DD ><P > If there is no transaction in progress. </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ><P> </P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="R1-SQL-COMMIT-1" ></A ><H2 > Description </H2 ><P > <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >COMMIT</TT > commits the current transaction. All changes made by the transaction become visible to others and are guaranteed to be durable if a crash occurs. </P ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT2" ><A NAME="R2-SQL-COMMIT-3" ></A ><H3 > Notes </H3 ><P > The keywords WORK and TRANSACTION are noise and can be omitted. </P ><P > Use <A HREF="sql-rollback.html" ><I >ROLLBACK</I ></A > to abort a transaction. </P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="R1-SQL-COMMIT-2" ></A ><H2 > Usage </H2 ><P > To make all changes permanent: </P><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >COMMIT WORK; </PRE ><P> </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="R1-SQL-COMMIT-3" ></A ><H2 > Compatibility </H2 ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT2" ><A NAME="R2-SQL-COMMIT-4" ></A ><H3 > SQL92 </H3 ><P > <SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >SQL92</SPAN > only specifies the two forms <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >COMMIT</TT > and <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >COMMIT WORK</TT >. Otherwise full compatibility. </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-comment.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-copy.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >COMMENT</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" >COPY</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >