MULTI(3valkey)

💅 MULTI (3valkey) — the valkey command manual, but make it bestie

okay so real talk, this is the multi page from the Valkey Command Manual and honestly? it's a whole vibe. short, sweet, absolutely iconic. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

multi — Starts a transaction. that's it. that's the whole job. queen behavior fr fr 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

MULTI

no arguments, no flags, no little optional extras to stress about. you literally just type it. we love a low-maintenance command ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea, bestie 🍓

MULTI marks the start of a transaction block. that's the ✨ main character moment ✨ where everything changes.

once you've called it, every command you send after that gets queued up instead of running immediately. they just sit there, waiting, holding their little breaths 💀 — and then they all go off together, atomically, the second you hit them with EXEC.

so like… it's a group chat where nobody sends a message until the host says go. no cap. 🎀

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💖 REPLY 💖

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

that's it. she says OK and she means it 💅

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👑 COMPLEXITY 👑

O(1)

constant time, babes. instant. effortless. it's giving no thoughts, just start the transaction ✨

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🌈 ACL CATEGORIES 🌈

• @fast
• @transaction

two categories, both slaying 🧚

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⭐ HISTORY ⭐

• Available since: 1.2.0

she's been here since 1.2.0 and she has never once needed a glow-up 💜

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

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

the whole transaction squad, assembled 😭🫶 go read them next, iykyk

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ok genuine note bestie: MULTI only starts the block. it doesn't run anything by itself — the queued commands are executed atomically by EXEC. don't forget the second half of the plan 🙈

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version 9.0.0, dated 2025-10-21, and it's still MULTI(3valkey) at heart. periodt. 💖✨🎀