UNLINK

UNLINK key

Available since

4.0.0

Time complexity

O(1) for each key removed regardless of its size. Then the command does O(N) work in a different thread in order to reclaim memory, where N is the number of allocations the deleted objects where composed of.

ACL categories

@keyspace, @write, @fast

This command is very similar to DEL: it removes the specified keys. Just like DEL a key is ignored if it does not exist. However the command performs the actual memory reclaiming in a different thread, so it is not blocking, while DEL is. This is where the command name comes from: the command just unlinks the keys from the keyspace. The actual removal will happen later asynchronously.

Examples #

SET key1 "Hello"
SET key2 "World"
UNLINK key1 key2 key3