PING

Returns the server’s liveliness response.

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Reference field	Value
Canonical name	PING
Catalog group	Connection commands
Upstream since	1.0.0 — upstream Redis/module version, not an ffkv release
Pinned catalog	Redis 8.10.0

Syntax

PING [message]

ffkv behavior and limits

Connection state, selected database, authentication and protocol negotiation belong to the same persistent connection. RESP2 is the default; HELLO 3 selects RESP3. Streamed/unknown-length RESP3 frames are not supported.

Source: README.md:96–120, 391–395; tests/bdd/features/connections.feature.

All requests share the 8 MiB framing/1,024-argument ingress limit; normal RESP replies have 64 MiB wire/logical budgets with bounded nesting/value counts. Management and Lua origins impose smaller budgets. These are not a process RSS cap. Catalog inclusion is not exhaustive option or wire-format parity. See limits and compatibility.

Upstream metadata

The following fields come from the pinned Redis metadata, not measured ffkv performance or an assertion that ffkv enforces every upstream flag. Running COMMAND INFO/COMMAND DOCS describe the current engine.

Upstream Redis complexity: O(1)

Upstream arity: -1 (includes the command name; a negative number is a minimum).

Command flags: FAST, SENTINEL.

ACL categories: CONNECTION.

Command tips: REQUEST_POLICY:ALL_SHARDS, RESPONSE_POLICY:ALL_SUCCEEDED.

Argument structure

Argument	Type	Constraints / metadata
message	string	optional

Additional pinned upstream metadata

{
  "group": "connection",
  "since": "1.0.0"
}

Metadata source · Local snapshot: src/command_metadata.json, key ping.

BDD coverage and source examples

These are source observations, not a test run performed by this documentation build. A tag identifies scenario intent; an extracted vector identifies a command invocation, which may intentionally produce an error. Scenarios may require setup, multiple connections, persistence, cluster nodes or native-module fixtures.

• Lua preserves arbitrary decimal replies and sparse cardinality beyond signed integers (Scenario Outline) — tests/bdd/features/arrays.feature:434; invocation observed.
• Replication WAIT is unblocked by exact client identity (Scenario Outline) — tests/bdd/features/client_control_repair.feature:5; invocation observed.
• Durable replication waits expose current counts or explicit cancellation (Scenario Outline) — tests/bdd/features/client_control_repair.feature:60; invocation observed.
• Killing a selected client closes its actual socket without killing another connection — tests/bdd/features/connections.feature:266; invocation observed.
• Binary echo and ping preserve payloads and QUIT closes the persistent socket — tests/bdd/features/connections.feature:751; command tag and invocation observed.
• Error unblocking removes the actual waiter and exposes the UNBLOCKED error — tests/bdd/features/connections.feature:780; invocation observed.
• A regular subscription delivers payloads and unsubscribe removes the recipient — tests/bdd/features/pubsub.feature:4; invocation observed.
• Off blocks new authentication without revoking existing sessions — tests/bdd/features/server.feature:1036; invocation observed.

Extracted command vectors

The following JSON arrays are the test harness’s argument vectors, not shell commands. Numeric arguments are converted by the harness; objects of the form {"base64":"…"} represent decoded binary bytes, not a literal JSON command argument. Preserve scenario setup and connection ordering. See the CLI guide for shell quoting and binary stdin. No reply is invented or inferred.

Lua preserves arbitrary decimal replies and sparse cardinality beyond signed integers — tests/bdd/features/arrays.feature:466 (client “big” executes:)

Expanded from an actual Examples row: version=2, cardinality="18446744073709551615", signed="-340282366920938463463374607431768211456".

[
  "PING"
]

Next source assertion: the reply equals:

"PONG"

Binary echo and ping preserve payloads and QUIT closes the persistent socket — tests/bdd/features/connections.feature:761 (client “closing” executes:)

[
  "PING",
  "alive"
]

Next source assertion: the reply equals:

"alive"