Alphabetical Listing

The following pages comprise an alphabetical listing of the SQL commands supported in PostgreSQL (Version 7.1).

ABORT

Syntax
ABORT [WORK | TRANSACTION] 
Description

ABORT is used to halt a transaction in process and roll back the table(s) to its original state.

Input(s)

None. WORK and TRANSACTION are optional and have no effect.

Output(s)

ROLLBACK (Message returned if successful.)

NOTICE: ROLLBACK: no transaction in process (Returned if no transaction is in process.)

Notes

Must be used within a BEGIN…COMMIT series.

SQL-92 Compatibility

Not used in SQL-92; use ROLLBACK instead.

Example

The following code shows how the ABORT command could be used to halt a transaction in progress and return the table back to its original ...

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