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| author | Brad Fitzpatrick <brad@danga.com> | 2008-10-14 23:12:17 -0700 |
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| committer | Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net> | 2009-03-19 01:52:53 -0700 |
| commit | c619881867bfe891c6477712edec53b744f9d991 (patch) | |
| tree | 7fcf8e1f4e74689b47449d1ba424b225015c085c | |
| parent | 674166c002fe2e32f0385d12351091d738150a12 (diff) | |
| download | memcached-c619881867bfe891c6477712edec53b744f9d991.tar.gz | |
update protocol docs
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/protocol.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/protocol.txt b/doc/protocol.txt index a39a7f3..9bfe901 100644 --- a/doc/protocol.txt +++ b/doc/protocol.txt @@ -275,11 +275,12 @@ Increment/Decrement Commands "incr" and "decr" are used to change data for some item in-place, incrementing or decrementing it. The data for the item is -treated as decimal representation of a 64-bit unsigned integer. If the -current data value does not conform to such a representation, the -commands behave as if the value were 0. Also, the item must already -exist for incr/decr to work; these commands won't pretend that a -non-existent key exists with value 0; instead, they will fail. +treated as decimal representation of a 64-bit unsigned integer. If +the current data value does not conform to such a representation, the +incr/decr commands return an error (memcached <= 1.2.6 treated the +bogus value as if it were 0, leading to confusing). Also, the item +must already exist for incr/decr to work; these commands won't pretend +that a non-existent key exists with value 0; instead, they will fail. The client sends the command line: |