Keys expiring in the middle of the execution of Lua scripts are to
create inconsistencies in masters and / or AOF files. See the following
example:
if redis.call("exists",KEYS[1]) == 1
then
redis.call("incr","mycounter")
end
if redis.call("exists",KEYS[1]) == 1
then
return redis.call("incr","mycounter")
end
The script executes two times the same *if key exists then incrementcounter*
logic. However the two executions will work differently in the master and
the slaves, provided some unlucky timing happens.
In the master the first time the key may still exist, while the second time
the key may no longer exist. This will result in the key incremented just one
time. However as a side effect the master will generate a synthetic
`DEL` command in the replication channel in order to force the slaves to
expire the key (given that key expiration is master-driven).
When the same script will run in the slave, the key will no longer be
there, so the script will not increment the key.
The key idea used to implement the expire-at-first-lookup semantics was
provided by Marc Gravell.
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