FUNCTION-HELP(3valkey)

💖 FUNCTION-HELP(3valkey) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Valkey Command Manual ✨ this is function-help, and she does exactly one thing but she does it flawlessly: she returns helpful text about the different subcommands. that's it. that's the whole job. and honestly? iconic. 👑

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✨ NAME ✨

function-help — returns helpful text about the different subcommands. no cap, that is literally the entire assignment. 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

FUNCTION HELP

so you just type FUNCTION HELP and that's it. no args, no flags, nothing to overthink. the FUNCTION HELP command returns a helpful text describing the different subcommands. she's the friend who hands you the syllabus before the exam, fr fr. 🫶

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💅 REPLY 💅

valkey-protocol(7) Array reply: a list of sub-commands and their descriptions. so you get back an array, and inside that array is every subcommand plus a lil description of what it does. it's giving ✨directory✨, it's giving ✨cheat sheet✨, it's giving exactly what you needed at 2am when your brain stopped working. 😭

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🔥 COMPLEXITY 🔥

O(1)

constant time, baby!! she does not care how big anything is, she is not doing a loop, she is not scrolling. instant. slay. ⭐

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🦋 ACL CATEGORIES 🦋

• @scripting
• @slow

(and yes bestie, before you come for me — those are the categories the manual lists, so those are the categories we write down. no editing, no vibes-based guessing. 🫡)

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🧚 HISTORY 🧚

• Available since: 7.0.0

she's been here since 7.0.0 and she has been serving ever since. 👑

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read these too, they're all in the same friend group:

• eval(3valkey)
• evalsha(3valkey)
• evalsha_ro(3valkey)
• eval_ro(3valkey)
• fcall(3valkey)
• fcall_ro(3valkey)
• function(3valkey)
• function-delete(3valkey)
• function-dump(3valkey)
• function-flush(3valkey)
• function-kill(3valkey)
• function-list(3valkey)
• function-load(3valkey)
• function-restore(3valkey)
• function-stats(3valkey)
• script(3valkey)
• script-debug(3valkey)
• script-exists(3valkey)
• script-flush(3valkey)
• script-help(3valkey)
• script-kill(3valkey)
• script-load(3valkey)
• script-show(3valkey)

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lowkey the entire point of FUNCTION HELP is "tell me what my options are" and she WILL tell you, every single time, in O(1). 💖

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and that's the page, bestie!! 💜 this version is 9.0.0, dated 2025-10-21 — so if you're reading this, thank the Valkey girlies of that era, they ate and left no crumbs. 🍓 bye ily, go run FUNCTION HELP and read your own syllabus. 🎀✨