diff --git a/src/t_string.c b/src/t_string.c
index 41e4b3b71023fe1c0750d4535dfddd44947481bd..c65510754d3eb161f03d3dd21782be59da80f82d 100644
--- a/src/t_string.c
+++ b/src/t_string.c
@@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ void getrangeCommand(redisClient *c) {
     if ((o = lookupKeyReadOrReply(c,c->argv[1],shared.emptybulk)) == NULL ||
         checkType(c,o,REDIS_STRING)) return;
 
+    if (lzfEncodedObject(o)) o = dbUnshareStringValue(c->db,c->argv[1],o);
     if (o->encoding == REDIS_ENCODING_INT) {
         str = llbuf;
         strlen = ll2string(llbuf,sizeof(llbuf),(long)o->ptr);