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31 COMMIT \- commit the current transaction
35 COMMIT [ WORK | TRANSACTION ] [ AND [ NO ] CHAIN ]
40 commits the current transaction\&. All changes made by the transaction become visible to others and are guaranteed to be durable if a crash occurs\&.
47 Optional key words\&. They have no effect\&.
54 is specified, a new transaction is immediately started with the same transaction characteristics (see
55 SET TRANSACTION (\fBSET_TRANSACTION\fR(7))) as the just finished one\&. Otherwise, no new transaction is started\&.
61 to abort a transaction\&.
65 when not inside a transaction does no harm, but it will provoke a warning message\&.
66 \fBCOMMIT AND CHAIN\fR
67 when not inside a transaction is an error\&.
70 To commit the current transaction and make all changes permanent:
85 conforms to the SQL standard\&. The form
87 is a PostgreSQL extension\&.
89 \fBBEGIN\fR(7), \fBROLLBACK\fR(7)