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NAME
COMMIT - commit the current transaction
SYNOPSIS
bash
COMMIT [ WORK | TRANSACTION ] [ AND [ NO ] CHAIN ]DESCRIPTION
COMMIT commits the current transaction. All changes made by the transaction become visible to others and are guaranteed to be durable if a crash occurs.
PARAMETERS
WORK TRANSACTION
AND CHAIN
NOTES
Use ROLLBACK(7) to abort a transaction.
Issuing COMMIT when not inside a transaction does no harm, but it will provoke a warning message. COMMIT AND CHAIN when not inside a transaction is an error.
EXAMPLES
To commit the current transaction and make all changes permanent:
bash
COMMIT;COMPATIBILITY
The command COMMIT conforms to the SQL standard. The form COMMIT TRANSACTION is a PostgreSQL extension.
SEE ALSO
BEGIN(7), ROLLBACK(7)