The ROLLBACK statement aborts the current transaction, discarding all updates made by statements included in the transaction.
When using advanced client-side transaction retries, use ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT to handle a transaction that needs to be retried (identified via the 40001 error code or restart transaction string in the error message), and then re-execute the statements you want the transaction to contain.
Synopsis
Required privileges
No privileges are required to rollback a transaction. However, privileges are required for each statement within a transaction.
Parameters
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
TO SAVEPOINT cockroach_restart |
If using advanced client-side transaction retries, retry the transaction. You should execute this statement when a transaction returns a 40001 / retry transaction error. |
Example
Rollback a transaction
Typically, an application conditionally executes rollbacks, but we can see their behavior by using ROLLBACK instead of COMMIT directly through SQL:
> SELECT * FROM accounts;
+----------+---------+
| name | balance |
+----------+---------+
| Marciela | 1000 |
+----------+---------+
> BEGIN;
> UPDATE accounts SET balance = 2500 WHERE name = 'Marciela';
> ROLLBACK;
> SELECT * FROM accounts;
+----------+---------+
| name | balance |
+----------+---------+
| Marciela | 1000 |
+----------+---------+
Retry a transaction
To use advanced client-side transaction retries, an application must execute ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT after detecting a 40001 / retry transaction error:
> ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT cockroach_restart;
For examples of retrying transactions in an application, check out the transaction code samples in our Build an App with CockroachDB tutorials.
