NAME

       COMMIT - commit the current transaction

SYNOPSIS

       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
           Optional key words. They have no effect.

       AND CHAIN
           If AND CHAIN is specified, a new transaction is immediately started with the same transaction
           characteristics (see SET TRANSACTION (SET_TRANSACTION(7))) as the just finished one. Otherwise, no
           new transaction is started.

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:

           COMMIT;

COMPATIBILITY

       The command COMMIT conforms to the SQL standard. The form COMMIT TRANSACTION is a PostgreSQL extension.

SEE ALSO

       BEGIN(7), ROLLBACK(7)

PostgreSQL 16.10                                      2025                                             COMMIT(7)