PUBSUB-HELP(3valkey)

✨ PUBSUB-HELP(3valkey) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Valkey Command Manual 💖 this one is literally the chillest page in the whole set, so grab your strawberry milk 🍓 and let's go.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

pubsub-help — returns helpful text about the different subcommands.

like. it's the help menu. for the help menu's friends. iconic behavior honestly 👑

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

PUBSUB HELP

The PUBSUB HELP command returns a helpful text describing the different subcommands. that's it. that's the whole job. and it does it flawlessly 💅

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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 it is every sub-command plus a lil blurb about what each one does. it's giving "friendly tour guide energy" 🧚

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⭐ COMPLEXITY ⭐

O(1)

constant time, no cap. it doesn't care how big your server is, it's not doing any extra work. lowkey the easiest complexity class to love 🫶

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👑 ACL CATEGORIES 👑

@slow

yep, it's filed under @slow. don't ask me why the help command is slow-tier, that's just the tag it has, and we respect the tag 🫡

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🌈 HISTORY 🌈

• Available since: 6.2.0

so it's been around since 6.2.0. vintage but not vintage vintage. a classic 💜

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💫 SEE ALSO 💫

• psubscribe(3valkey)
• publish(3valkey)
• pubsub(3valkey)
• pubsub-channels(3valkey)
• pubsub-numpat(3valkey)
• pubsub-numsub(3valkey)
• pubsub-shardchannels(3valkey)
• pubsub-shardnumsub(3valkey)
• punsubscribe(3valkey)
• spublish(3valkey)
• ssubscribe(3valkey)
• subscribe(3valkey)
• sunsubscribe(3valkey)
• unsubscribe(3valkey)

go read those too bestie, the whole pub/sub family is right there waiting for you 😭💖

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Valkey version 9.0.0, dated 2025-10-21. that's the vibe check, signed, sealed, delivered 🎀✨ bye bestie, go publish something 🦋