DISCARD(3valkey)

💅 DISCARD — the "nvm bestie, forget it" command

okay so real talk, discard is a valkey command and it does exactly one thing: it throws your whole transaction in the trash and pretends it never happened. no cap.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

DISCARD

that's it. that's the whole vibe. no args, no options, no notes. she's low maintenance. 👑

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

DISCARD flushes all previously queued commands in a transaction and restores the connection state to normal.

so like. you were building a whole thing with MULTI and queueing up commands like a good little main character, and then you changed your mind? iconic. DISCARD empties the queue, nothing runs, and your connection goes back to its regular non-transaction self. we love a clean slate. ✨

If WATCH was used, DISCARD unwatches all keys watched by the connection.

translation: if you were keeping an eye on some keys 👀, that watch is cancelled too. no lingering parasocial key relationships here. 🫶

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🌸 REPLY 🌸

valkey-protocol(7) Simple string reply: OK.

it says OK and means it. fr fr.

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🎀 COMPLEXITY 🎀

O(N), when N is the number of queued commands

so the more nonsense you queued up, the longer it takes to throw away. make it make sense, but that's the math. 💀

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🔥 ACL CATEGORIES 🔥

• @fast
• @transaction

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🌈 HISTORY 🌈

• Available since: 2.0.0

she's been serving since 2.0.0. a legend. a pioneer. periodt.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• exec(3valkey)
• multi(3valkey)
• unwatch(3valkey)
• watch(3valkey)

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not me reminding you that if you don't DISCARD, those queued commands are still sitting there waiting. vibe check your transactions, bestie. 💖

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valkey command manual, version 9.0.0, dated 2025-10-21 — mwah, go slay your transactions, iykyk 🧚💜