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31 ABORT \- abort the current transaction
35 ABORT [ WORK | TRANSACTION ] [ AND [ NO ] CHAIN ]
40 rolls back the current transaction and causes all the updates made by the transaction to be discarded\&. This command is identical in behavior to the standard
43 \fBROLLBACK\fR, and is present only for historical reasons\&.
50 Optional key words\&. They have no effect\&.
57 is specified, a new transaction is immediately started with the same transaction characteristics (see
58 \fBSET TRANSACTION\fR) as the just finished one\&. Otherwise, no new transaction is started\&.
64 to successfully terminate a transaction\&.
68 outside of a transaction block emits a warning and otherwise has no effect\&.
86 extension present for historical reasons\&.
88 is the equivalent standard SQL command\&.
90 \fBBEGIN\fR(7), \fBCOMMIT\fR(7), \fBROLLBACK\fR(7)