Problem

When a pooled connection is retrieved via pconnect, server-side state from the previous request—SELECT, WATCH, CLIENT SETNAME, etc.—carries over. This causes reads and writes to go to the wrong database, stale watches to break transactions, and other subtle failures.

Fixes #1920. Related: #428.

Solution

Add the Redis 6.2 RESET command to the redis_sock_check_liveness() pipeline so that all server-side state is cleared on pool retrieval.

• Pipeline order: RESET → AUTH → ECHO (prepended to the existing liveness check)
• Pre-6.2 servers: the first -ERR response is cached in ConnectionPool.reset_unsupported; subsequent retrievals skip the command entirely
• No stats pollution: the errorstats section was introduced in 6.2—the same version that added RESET—so no per-error counter is incremented on older servers; after the flag is cached the command is not sent at all

Why RESET

6.2 adoption

RESET was added in Redis 6.2 (February 2021). Major managed services already provide it:

• AWS ElastiCache — 6.2 available in all regions (November 2021)
• GCP Memorystore — 6.x ships 6.2.13; default is 7.2 (docs)
• Azure Cache for Redis — 6.2+ on Enterprise tier (docs)

On pre-6.2 servers, RESET returns -ERR but the connection stays alive. After the flag is cached the additional cost drops to zero.

Changes

• common.h — add RESP_RESET_CMD constant; add reset_unsupported field to ConnectionPool
• library.c — send and consume RESET in redis_sock_check_liveness(); pass ConnectionPool * to the function
• tests/RedisTest.php — three regression tests covering SELECT, WATCH, and CLIENT SETNAME state leaks