COMMIT PREPARED COMMIT PREPARED 7 SQL - Language Statements COMMIT PREPARED commit a transaction that was earlier prepared for two-phase commit COMMIT PREPARED transaction_id COMMIT PREPARED commits a transaction that is in prepared state. transaction_id The transaction identifier of the transaction that is to be committed. To commit a prepared transaction, you must be either the same user that executed the transaction originally, or a superuser. But you do not have to be in the same session that executed the transaction. This command cannot be executed inside a transaction block. The prepared transaction is committed immediately. All currently available prepared transactions are listed in the pg_prepared_xacts system view. If more than one Datanode and/or Coordinator are involved in the transaction, COMMIT PREPARED command will propagate to all these nodes. If xc_maintenance_mode GUC parameter is set to ON, COMMIT PREPARED will not propagate to other nodes. It just runs locally and report the result to the GTM. Commit the transaction identified by the transaction identifier foobar: COMMIT PREPARED 'foobar'; COMMIT PREPARED is a PostgreSQL extension. It is intended for use by external transaction management systems, some of which are covered by standards (such as X/Open XA), but the SQL side of those systems is not standardized.