How to initiate, increment and set expiration in the same Redis command?

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INCR mykey initiates to 0 and increments the value to 1. How would I set expiration time to the mykey in the same command like it can be done with SETEX ?

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 06 '20 at 04:47

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you can use pipeline or a lua script

in fact, in redis documentation, there is an example of implementing rate limit that needs to increase and set ttl using multi

https://redis.io/commands/INCR

answered Jan 06 '20 at 04:47

Tuan Anh Tran

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Lua script is better, since it's atomic – for_stack Jan 06 '20 at 07:56

How to initiate, increment and set expiration in the same Redis command?

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