[rabbitmq-discuss] Durable queue disappears

Thu Sep 11 16:39:27 BST 2008

Dmitriy,

Dmitriy Samovskiy wrote:

> It was the last sentence of the <doc> that makes the difference: "If 
> there was no consumer ever on the queue, it won't be deleted." So 
> technically speaking, this field is not "auto-delete queue when unused" 
> but "auto-delete queue when no longer used."

The former wouldn't be very useful since it would require the queues to 
be deleted right after their creation :)

Matthias.