[rabbitmq-discuss] Message Aggregating Queue

[Irmo Manie]

> But each client specific queue could implement the 'obsolete tick'
> discarding in the broker, right?

True, I only don't know how difficult this would be to implement on
the broker side.

> I would feel more comfortable knowing that the number of messages in
> the broker is naturally bounded, even if the consumer misbehaves. It
> would also be nice to have the possibility to have a pool of consumers
> processing from a single queue, be able to restart the consumers
> without losing unprocessed messages etc.

Also true, it would still be a nice to have feature on the broker side.

> Anyway, we should discuss
> this some more internally; as always these sort of cats are amenable
> to being skinned in multitude of ways :)

:-)