SSUBSCRIBE

Syntax

SSUBSCRIBE shardchannel [shardchannel ...]

Available since:: 7.0.0
Time complexity:: O(N) where N is the number of shard channels to subscribe to.
ACL categories:: @pubsub, @slow,

Subscribes the client to the specified shard channels.

In a Redis cluster, shard channels are assigned to slots by the same algorithm used to assign keys to slots. Client(s) can subscribe to a node covering a slot (primary/replica) to receive the messages published. All the specified shard channels needs to belong to a single slot to subscribe in a given SSUBSCRIBE call, A client can subscribe to channels across different slots over separate SSUBSCRIBE call.

For more information about sharded Pub/Sub, see Sharded Pub/Sub.

Examples

> ssubscribe orders
Reading messages... (press Ctrl-C to quit)
1) "ssubscribe"
2) "orders"
3) (integer) 1
1) "smessage"
2) "orders"
3) "hello"

RESP2 Reply

When successful, this command doesn't return anything. Instead, for each shard channel, one message with the first element being the string ssubscribe is pushed as a confirmation that the command succeeded. Note that this command can also return a -MOVED redirect.

RESP3 Reply

When successful, this command doesn't return anything. Instead, for each shard channel, one message with the first element being the string 'ssubscribe' is pushed as a confirmation that the command succeeded. Note that this command can also return a -MOVED redirect.