ABORT(7)

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🌸 ABORT(7) 🌸

ok so real talk bestie, this is the ABORT page from the PostgreSQL 15.19 Documentation — yes the whole manual, and yes we're doing this one because it's short and iconic and you're gonna learn it in like 30 seconds 💅

✨ NAME ✨

ABORT — abort the current transaction 🫶 like, undo-undo-undo, we're so back

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ABORT [ WORK | TRANSACTION ] [ AND [ NO ] CHAIN ]

look at her, all bracketed and optional 🎀

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

ABORT rolls back the current transaction and causes all the updates made by the transaction to be discarded. that's it. that's the whole vibe — everything you just did in that transaction? gone. poof. not me crying 😭

and here's the tea: this command is identical in behavior to the standard SQL command ROLLBACK, and it's present only for historical reasons. so it's giving legacy queen 👑 she's still here, she still works, she's just... archival.

✨ PARAMETERS ✨

  • WORK, TRANSACTION — optional key words bb 💖 they have no effect. literally none. decorative. aesthetic. do it for the plot.
  • AND CHAIN — if AND CHAIN is specified, a new transaction is immediately started with the same transaction characteristics (see SET TRANSACTION) as the just finished one 🌈 otherwise, no new transaction is started. so it's like, the transaction handoff, the passing of the torch, the and scene ✨

✨ NOTES ✨

  • use COMMIT to successfully terminate a transaction 🧚 like, if you actually want to KEEP your work, that's a different command bestie.
  • issuing ABORT outside of a transaction block emits a warning and otherwise has no effect.
⚠️ yes that's a whole warning for doing nothing. she's dramatic but she's honest 💀

✨ EXAMPLES ✨

to abort all changes:

ABORT;

one line. zero notes. ate and left no crumbs 🍓

✨ COMPATIBILITY ✨

this command is a PostgreSQL extension present for historical reasons 🌸 ROLLBACK is the equivalent standard SQL command. so if you're out here writing portable SQL, use ROLLBACK — ABORT is our little house special, iykyk 💜

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

the whole friend group, together at last 🫶🦋

mwah, that's the page!! brought to you by PostgreSQL 15.19, dated 2026 — drink water, wrap your transactions, and remember: ABORT is forever a vibe 💖✨🎀

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