Question

In pgAdmin, if I execute an insert query, I don’t see any way to either commit or rollback the statement I just ran (I know it auto commits). I’m used to Oracle and SQL developer, where I could run a statement, and then rollback the last statement I ran with a press of a button. How would I achieve the same thing here?

Answer 1

Use transaction in the SQL window:

BEGIN;
DROP TABLE foo;
ROLLBACK; -- or COMMIT;

— edit —
Another example:

BEGIN;
INSERT INTO foo(bar) VALUES ('baz') RETURNING bar; -- the results will be returned
SELECT * FROM other_table; -- some more result
UPDATE other_table SET var = 'bla' WHERE id = 1 RETURNING *; -- the results will be returned

-- and when you're done with all statements and have seen the results:
ROLLBACK; -- or COMMIT