Re: Documentation should state what happens, when a commit fails - Mailing list pgsql-docs

On Wed, 2025-05-28 at 08:08 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
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> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/sql-commit.html
> Description:
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> Deferrable constraints, deadlocks and possibly other deferred or lazily
> evaluated rules are checked upon commit.
> What happens if they are not met and the commit statement fails? Does the
> transaction then implicitly rollback? Or do I need an explicit rollback?

I think it would be good to mention that a failed COMMIT automatically
performs a ROLLBACK.  Do you want to suggest a patch?

Yours,
Laurenz Albe