This is a rebased version of #3078 originally by shaharmor
with the following patches by TysonAndre made after rebasing
to work with the updated C API:
1. Add 2 more unit tests
(wrong argument count error message, integer over 64 bits)
2. Use addReplyArrayLen instead of addReplyMultiBulkLen.
3. Undo changes to src/help.h - for the ZMSCORE PR,
I heard those should instead be automatically
generated from the redis-doc repo if it gets updated
Motivations:
- Example use case: Client code to efficiently check if each element of a set
of 1000 items is a member of a set of 10 million items.
(Similar to reasons for working on #7593)
- HMGET and ZMSCORE already exist. This may lead to developers deciding
to implement functionality that's best suited to a regular set with a
data type of sorted set or hash map instead, for the multi-get support.
Currently, multi commands or lua scripting to call sismember multiple times
would almost definitely be less efficient than a native smismember
for the following reasons:
- Need to fetch the set from the string every time
instead of reusing the C pointer.
- Using pipelining or multi-commands would result in more bytes sent
and received by the client for the repeated SISMEMBER KEY sections.
- Need to specially encode the data and decode it from the client
for lua-based solutions.
- Proposed solutions using Lua or SADD/SDIFF could trigger writes to
memory, which is undesirable on a redis replica server
or when commands get replicated to replicas.
Co-Authored-By: Shahar Mor <shahar@peer5.com>
Co-Authored-By: Tyson Andre <tysonandre775@hotmail.com>
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