CLIENT-GETNAME(3valkey)

💖 CLIENT-GETNAME 💖

okay so bestie, we're looking at CLIENT-GETNAME(3valkey) from the Valkey Command Manual — it's giving "who am I, really?" but for your connection. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

client-getname — returns the name of the connection. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

CLIENT GETNAME

so like. CLIENT GETNAME returns the name of the current connection, specifically the name that was set by valkey-client-setname(7) CLIENT SETNAME. cute, right?

but here's the tea: every new connection starts with no name attached at all, so if nobody ever assigned one, you get a null bulk reply back. no name, no vibes, just null. 😭

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🦋 REPLY 🦋

RESP2

one of these two, bestie:

• valkey-protocol(7) Bulk string reply: the connection name of the current connection ✨
• valkey-protocol(7) Nil reply: the connection name was not set 🙈

RESP3

and in the newer era, one of these two:

• valkey-protocol(7) Bulk string reply: the connection name of the current connection ✨
• valkey-protocol(7) Null reply: the connection name was not set 🙈

(note the glow-up: Nil reply in RESP2 becomes Null reply in RESP3. same energy, different label, iykyk 💀)

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⚡ COMPLEXITY ⚡

O(1) — constant time, no cap. she does not care how big your connection list is, she is not scrolling. main character efficiency 👑

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🔐 ACL CATEGORIES 🔐

• @connection
• @slow

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📜 HISTORY 📜

• Available since: 2.6.9 — an icon from way back, been serving looks since 2.6.9 💜

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

go read these next, they're all part of the same friend group:

• auth(3valkey)
• client(3valkey)
• client-caching(3valkey)
• client-capa(3valkey)
• client-getredir(3valkey)
• client-help(3valkey)
• client-id(3valkey)
• client-import-source(3valkey)
• client-info(3valkey)
• client-kill(3valkey)
• client-list(3valkey)
• client-no-evict(3valkey)
• client-no-touch(3valkey)
• client-pause(3valkey)
• client-reply(3valkey)
• client-setinfo(3valkey)
• client-setname(3valkey)
• client-tracking(3valkey)
• client-trackinginfo(3valkey)
• client-unblock(3valkey)
• client-unpause(3valkey)
• echo(3valkey)
• hello(3valkey)
• ping(3valkey)
• quit(3valkey)
• reset(3valkey)
• select(3valkey)

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and that's the whole page, periodt 💖✨

this lil masterpiece is from Valkey 9.0.0, dated 2025-10-21 — go off, you understood the assignment fr fr 🎀🦋