redis Redis Keys TTL and Key Expiration
Example
The expiration values of a key can be managed by a user outside of the update commands. Redis allows a user to determine the current time to live (TTL) of a key using the TTL command:
TTL key
This command will return the TTL of a key in seconds or will return the special values -1 or -2. A -1 indicates that the key is persistent (won't expire) and a -2 indicates that the key does not exist.
An expiring key can be made persistent using the PERSIST command:
PERSIST KEY
and a persistent key can be made to expire using the EXPIRE command:
EXPIRE KEY seconds
Expire can also be used to modify the TTL of an existing key. Alternatively, you can use the EXPIREAT command with a UNIX timestamp to set an expire time.
There are millisecond versions of TTL, EXPIRE and EXPIREAT commands that are prefixed with a P.
