[rabbitmq-discuss] Command Line Deletion of Queues?

[Garrett Smith]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Ben Hood<0x6e6562 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Richard,
>
> On 8/20/09, Rich Kim <rich.kim at db.com> wrote:
>> Is there any command line method to explicitly delete a durable queue? I'm
>> aware of the Channel.queueDelete() , but was hoping there might be a way
>> to perform this via rabbitmqctl as an administrative function?
>
> ATM you can't use this via rabbitmqctl. However, as part of the
> upcoming release there is a management plugin that lets you do this.
> This is usable now, but it means that you would have to get the latest
> source, build it, install the plugin, etc, which means that you won't
> be using a released version.

Being able to delete queues seems like good functionality for rabbitmqctl.

Is the current direction/thinking to move management facilities into plugins?

Garrett