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A script inside a MULTI/EXEC that gets discarded is marked as loaded even though the server never ran
it, so every later call fails with NOSCRIPT until the connection is closed.

Script.ts records the script against the socket at write time, which is correct for the ordinary
path. Inside a transaction the write can still come to nothing: if the EXEC is discarded, the server
never evaluates the script, and the optimistic bookkeeping is left claiming a script the server has
never seen. Because it is keyed on the socket, only a new connection clears it.

Pipeline.ts was dropping per-command errors inside an EXEC reply, continueing past them without
telling the command, so nothing could undo that bookkeeping. It now rejects the command with its
error, which both surfaces the failure to the caller and lets the script roll back its record.

Once the record is rolled back, the next call sends the script body rather than assuming a cached
hash, and recovers on the same connection instead of failing until it is replaced.

Fixes #76

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RetriggerConfidence Score: 5/5

Safe to merge with respect to blocking issues; the remaining prior cache-efficiency concerns are non-blocking.

Findings

  1. P2 Preserve valid QUEUED results
  2. P2 Successful transaction clears cache
  3. P2 Ran trex-artifacts/transaction-script-cache-repro.sh against a real Valkey server for P...
  4. P2 Successful EXEC clears cache
Summary

This update improves named-script cache bookkeeping when queued work is discarded or fails to execute, and adds coverage for aborted transactions, discarded work, and script-cache misses.

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transformReply(result: Buffer | Buffer[]) {
if (this._scriptInlined) {
if (String(result) === "QUEUED") {

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P2 Preserve valid QUEUED results

A script can legitimately return the string QUEUED, but this reply-value check treats that successful result as a transaction queue acknowledgement and clears the socket's loaded-script marker. The next call to the same named script sends the full source with EVAL rather than using EVALSHA. This is a non-blocking cache-efficiency regression that adds avoidable command payload for valid script results.

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  • Authored executable invokes the same named script twice over one socket, returns the real Lua value QUEUED, and records the serialized commands; it isolates the marker decision.

Command output from the check

  • Executed against `HEAD^`; both calls returned QUEUED and the second serialized command was EVALSHA, establishing the pre-PR behavior.

Command output from the check

  • Executed against PR HEAD; both calls returned QUEUED but the second serialized command was EVAL, proving the reported regression.

Command output from the check

  • Executed `npm run build` at PR HEAD and captured its successful complete output, confirming the changed source compiles.

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Walkthrough

The change delays script-loaded state until server confirmation, clears stale state for discarded or failed transactions, and rejects command errors returned inside EXEC. Functional tests cover WATCH conflicts, explicit discard, and NOSCRIPT handling.

Changes

Script transaction state

Layer / File(s) Summary
Script reply and transaction handling
lib/Script.ts, lib/Pipeline.ts
Script commands record their socket and provisional inline state. Successful replies confirm the script as loaded, while QUEUED replies remove the provisional state. EXEC processing now rejects queued commands when their result contains an error.
Transaction scripting coverage
test/functional/scripting.ts
Tests cover WATCH conflicts, explicit transaction discard, and NOSCRIPT propagation after SCRIPT FLUSH. They verify that subsequent calls use EVAL when the script is not confirmed as loaded.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant Script
  participant Pipeline
  participant Redis
  Client->>Script: Execute script in transaction
  Script->>Pipeline: Queue EVAL or EVALSHA
  Pipeline->>Redis: Send MULTI/EXEC
  Redis-->>Pipeline: QUEUED or EXEC result
  Pipeline->>Script: Update loaded state
  Pipeline-->>Client: Return result or NOSCRIPT error
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Priority: ➖ Normal

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to c5be9

A successful scripted transaction can cause later calls to resend the script body unnecessarily. Results remain correct, but the extra work should be fixed before merging.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The changes implement several [#76] requirements. Pipeline.fillResult sends errors from EXEC replies to the associated command. Script.transformReply uses inTransaction to distinguish queued c… Clear the provisional script-loaded state for every non-confirming error from an inlined script command, including queue-time errors that cause EXECABORT, while retaining the NOSCRIPT handling. Add an automated test that triggers a queu…
✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: script-loaded state remains associated with a socket only after EVAL executes successfully.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the stale script state issue, the Pipeline and Script changes, the transaction cases, and the recovery behavior.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes are limited to script load-state tracking, transaction error propagation, and scripting tests. These changes directly support [#76], including recovery after discarded transactions and `NO…
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 3…
Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

The changes implement several [#76] requirements. Pipeline.fillResult sends errors from EXEC replies to the associated command. Script.transformReply uses inTransaction to distinguish queued commands from executed replies. It also clears state for NOSCRIPT and supports resend. However, Script.toWritable installs a rejection handler that deletes the provisional socket state only when the error contains NOSCRIPT. A queue-time error therefore leaves the script marked as loaded. The server can then return EXECABORT, and a later call can incorrectly send EVALSHA. The current evidence does not show a test for this required queue-time error path.

Resolution

Clear the provisional script-loaded state for every non-confirming error from an inlined script command, including queue-time errors that cause EXECABORT, while retaining the NOSCRIPT handling. Add an automated test that triggers a queue-time transaction error, verifies EXECABORT, and verifies that the next call sends EVAL and succeeds.


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In `@lib/Script.ts`:
- Around line 32-59: Update CustomScriptCommand’s provisional socket tracking so
a MOVED or ASK retry cannot leave the original socket marked as having loaded
the script: defer adding the socket to socketHasScriptLoaded until a successful
non-QUEUED transformReply result, or explicitly clear the mark when
Cluster.handleError retries the command. Preserve the existing MULTI/QUEUED
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Comment thread lib/Script.ts
Comment on lines +32 to +59
this._scriptSocket = socket;
this._scriptInlined = false;
if (!socketHasScriptLoaded.has(socket)) {
socketHasScriptLoaded.add(socket);
// The mark is provisional: only the reply to this write proves
// whether the EVAL body actually ran on the server.
this._scriptInlined = true;
this.name = "eval";
this.args[0] = lua;
socketHasScriptLoaded.add(socket);
} else if (this.name === "eval") {
this.name = "evalsha";
this.args[0] = sha;
}
return super.toWritable(socket);
}

transformReply(result: Buffer | Buffer[]) {
if (this._scriptInlined) {
if (String(result) === "QUEUED") {
// The command was queued by MULTI, not run: if the
// transaction is discarded the script is never cached.
socketHasScriptLoaded.delete(this._scriptSocket);
} else {
socketHasScriptLoaded.add(this._scriptSocket);
}
}
return super.transformReply(result);
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clear provisional script marks when cluster retries a command.

CustomScriptCommand.toWritable refreshes the stored socket and inline state on every serialization. However, it adds the socket to socketHasScriptLoaded before receiving a reply. Cluster.sendCommand handles MOVED and ASK through handleError and retries without invoking the script rejection handler. The original socket remains marked even though it did not run EVAL. A later command can send EVALSHA, receive NOSCRIPT, and perform an unnecessary resend. Defer the mark until a successful non-QUEUED reply, or clear it when a redirect retries the command.

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In `@lib/Script.ts` around lines 32 - 59, Update CustomScriptCommand’s provisional
socket tracking so a MOVED or ASK retry cannot leave the original socket marked
as having loaded the script: defer adding the socket to socketHasScriptLoaded
until a successful non-QUEUED transformReply result, or explicitly clear the
mark when Cluster.handleError retries the command. Preserve the existing
MULTI/QUEUED behavior and EVALSHA selection for genuinely cached scripts.

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Ran the functional suite against a local valkey for this. On the PR head and with the change below the totals are identical: 435 passing, 4 failing, and those 4 are should connect via IPv6 if family is 0 (no IPv6 in this environment) and a timing-sensitive socketTimeout case, both failing the same way before the change. All 17 scripting tests pass.

On the QUEUED point, it is real and half of it is now fixed. Command.inTransaction is set by Pipeline.sendCommand, so every command that goes through multi() carries it, and that leg no longer reads the reply at all.

The other leg is multi({ pipeline: false }), whose commands go straight to the client and carry no flag. There the reply is the only signal, and DataHandler builds the parser with returnBuffers: true, so +QUEUED and a script whose own result is the string QUEUED arrive as the same bytes. I wrote a test for that case, watched it fail, and could not make it pass without either breaking the manual-transaction path or tracking MULTI state on the client, which is a larger change than this PR should carry. So it is kept and documented rather than papered over. The cost in that case is one redundant EVAL on the next call, never a wrong result.

Happy to follow up with the client-state change if you would take it.

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🟡 Minor · Retain the script mark after the EXEC result. · lib/Script.ts:48-64

48-64: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Retain the script mark after the EXEC result. Pipeline.sendCommand sets inTransaction before the queue-time reply. Pipeline.fillResult then transforms the same Script command again for the EXEC element without clearing that flag. Both transformations therefore delete socketHasScriptLoaded. The next call can resend the script with EVAL.

Track the queue-time transformation separately. Reset that state in toWritable, delete the mark only on the first transaction transformation, and restore the mark on the successful EXEC transformation. Preserve the QUEUED reply check for non-pipelined transactions.

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In `@lib/Script.ts` around lines 48 - 64, Update Script’s transformReply flow to
distinguish the queue-time transaction transformation from the later EXEC-result
transformation: add/reset per-command state in toWritable, delete
socketHasScriptLoaded only during the first transaction transformation, and
restore the mark during a successful EXEC transformation. Preserve the existing
String(result) === "QUEUED" handling for non-pipelined transactions.
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In `@lib/Script.ts`:
- Around line 48-64: Update Script’s transformReply flow to distinguish the
queue-time transaction transformation from the later EXEC-result transformation:
add/reset per-command state in toWritable, delete socketHasScriptLoaded only
during the first transaction transformation, and restore the mark during a
successful EXEC transformation. Preserve the existing String(result) ===
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transformReply(result: Buffer | Buffer[]) {
if (this._scriptInlined) {
if (this.inTransaction || String(result) === "QUEUED") {

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P2 Successful transaction clears cache

  • A successful named script executed within MULTI/EXEC retains its transaction marker when its EXEC result reaches transformReply.
  • The changed condition clears the per-socket loaded-script marker, so the next invocation sends EVAL and the Lua source instead of EVALSHA.
  • The reply handling must distinguish the initial QUEUED acknowledgement from the later successful EXEC result.

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transformReply(result: Buffer | Buffer[]) {
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if (this.inTransaction || String(result) === "QUEUED") {

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P2 Ran trex-artifacts/transaction-script-cache-repro.sh against a real Valkey server for P...

  • Bug
    • Ran trex-artifacts/transaction-script-cache-repro.sh against a real Valkey server for PR head e7ed8e1 and its immediate parent d9839da.
    • Both revisions completed MULTI/EXEC successfully and returned null,42.
    • At the PR head, the next invocation emitted EVAL and sent the Lua source; at the parent, it emitted EVALSHA without the source. This confirms the regression occurs after a successful transaction result.
  • Cause
    • T-Rex reproduced this while running the changed behavior, but it did not return a separate root-cause sentence.
  • Fix
    • Update the changed code so this failing path is handled, then rerun the same T-Rex check to confirm it passes.
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transaction-script-cache-repro.sh

  • The executed reproduction compares the successful transaction script-cache behavior between the PR head and its parent.

transaction-script-cache-01-before-02-after.log

  • The captured output shows the PR head sends EVAL with source after success while the parent sends EVALSHA without source.

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transformReply(result: Buffer | Buffer[]) {
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if (this.inTransaction || String(result) === "QUEUED") {

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P2 Successful EXEC clears cache

  • Bug
    • A successful script executed within a pipelined MULTI/EXEC transaction leaves inTransaction true when its EXEC element reaches transformReply. The changed condition clears the per-socket loaded-script marker, causing the next invocation of the same script to send EVAL and its Lua source instead of EVALSHA.
  • Cause
    • lib/Script.ts treats every in-transaction transformed reply as a queued, unexecuted command, even though Pipeline passes the successful EXEC result element to that command.
  • Fix
    • Distinguish the initial QUEUED response from the later EXEC result so a successful EXEC result preserves or restores the socket loaded-script marker.

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…lly ran

A socket was marked as having a script loaded at the moment the EVAL was
written to it. Inside MULTI the write only earns a +QUEUED reply, and a
discarded transaction (WATCH conflict, EXECABORT, DISCARD) never runs the
body, so the server never caches the script. Every later call on that
connection then sent EVALSHA and failed with NOSCRIPT until the connection
was closed.

Keep marking the socket at write time (write order equals execution order
outside MULTI, so pipelines keep their evalsha optimization), but let the
command revise the record from the reply: a QUEUED reply means the body
has not run and the mark is removed; a real result re-adds it. This also
covers multi({ pipeline: false }), where the client never sees the
transaction state.

Additionally, deliver EXEC-array error elements to the queued command's
reject hook in Pipeline.fillResult so a NOSCRIPT inside a transaction
clears the record, letting the next call recover via EVAL (e.g. after
SCRIPT FLUSH).

Fixes valkey-io#76

Signed-off-by: Christopher Pruijsen <christopher.pruijsen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christopher Pruijsen <christopher.pruijsen@gmail.com>
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