25P01ERRORTier 2 — Caution✅ HIGH confidence

no active SQL transaction

Category: Invalid Transaction StateVersions: All Postgres versions

What this means

SQLSTATE 25P01 is a Postgres-specific error raised when a transaction control command (such as ROLLBACK, COMMIT, or SAVEPOINT) is issued outside of an active transaction block.

Why it happens

1Calling ROLLBACK or COMMIT outside of a transaction block (when not in autocommit mode)
2Calling SAVEPOINT or RELEASE SAVEPOINT outside of a transaction

How to reproduce

ROLLBACK outside a transaction.

trigger — this will ERROR

ROLLBACK; -- WARNING: there is no transaction in progress

WARNING: there is no transaction in progress

Fix 1: Track transaction state in the application layer

When ROLLBACK or COMMIT may be called conditionally.

fix

Why this works

Use application-level state to track whether a transaction is active before issuing ROLLBACK or COMMIT. Most drivers expose a transaction status method.

Sources

📚 Official docs: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/errcodes-appendix.html

🔧 Source ref: Class 25 — Invalid Transaction State (Postgres-specific)

Confidence assessment

✅ HIGH confidence

Postgres-specific. Stable across versions.