[rabbitmq-discuss] Consumer does not get error about queue dying

[Ben Hood]

Anuj,

On 29 Aug 2009, at 18:23, Anuj Agarwal <aagarwal at yellowpages.com> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> So i realize that a queue's data only lives on the rabbit broker that
> the queue was created in. It seems like if you have one consumer
> connected to that broker and reading from that queue and another
> consumer connected to a different broker in the same cluster and  
> reading
> from that same queue, then it will not be notified of the error if the
> broker holding the queue's msgs is stopped.

This is true.

Unfortutenately this scenario was not catered for in the original  
spec, i.e. if a queue disappears there is no way to notify consumers  
of this queue. This semantic is being addressed from a protocol  
perspective, but for the meantime, this is how Rabbit will behave.

HTH,

Ben