Section: Transactions and savepoints

Roll back a transaction

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ROLLBACK;
Explanation

A safety valve when a migration, import, or manual edit goes wrong.

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Start a transaction
Bundle multiple statements atomically.
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Begin an IMMEDIATE transaction
Reserve the write lock up front.
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Use a savepoint
Create a nested rollback point within a transaction.
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Enable WAL journaling
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Set a busy timeout
Wait briefly when the database is locked.
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Run a WAL checkpoint
Merge WAL contents back into the main database file.
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