COMMIT - commit the current transaction

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

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.

To commit the current transaction and make all changes permanent: COMMIT;

COMMIT - commit the current transaction

Use ROLLBACK(7) to abort a transaction. Issuing COMMIT when not inside a transaction does no harm, but it will provoke a warning message. COMMITANDCHAIN when not inside a transaction is an error.

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.

BEGIN(7), ROLLBACK(7) PostgreSQL 17.5 2025 COMMIT(7)

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