Rollback

Transaction rollbacks restore a database to an earlier state by discarding changes made by that transaction. Statement-level rollbacks discard only the changes initiated by the reverted statements. Transaction-level rollbacks discard all changes made by the transaction.

With a ROLLBACK statement, you can explicitly roll back to a named savepoint within the transaction, or discard the entire transaction. Vertica can also initiate automatic rollbacks in two cases:

• An individual statement returns an ERROR message. In this case, Vertica rolls back the statement.

• DDL errors, systemic failures, dead locks, and resource constraints return a ROLLBACK message. In this case, Vertica rolls back the entire transaction.

Explicit and automatic rollbacks always release any locks that the transaction holds.