[rabbitmq-discuss] Clustering Internals

Wed Mar 23 00:06:43 GMT 2011

Hi Matthew,

Thank you for the detailed explanation.

>
> The act of routing a message is that the channel in which the message
> has been publishes looks up the Pids of the queues to which the message
> is destined. It then sends the message to those Pids. Depending on the
> publish mode (e.g. presence or otherwise of flags such as immediate or
> mandatory) it may or may not be important as to whether processes
> corresponding to those Pids are still alive.
>
> Whilst you can use mandatory to ensure that a message makes it to at
> least one queue, and whilst sending a message to an exchange that
> doesn't exist will cause a channel error, you can not assert that a
> publish message went to the "correct" number of queues: it always goes
> to the correct number of queues as determined at the point of routing.
> Thus the 0-or-some that mandatory gives you is the best you can hope
> for, generally, without significant additional changes to AMQP.
>
>
So there really are no guarantees as to the contents of an exchange on
failure of a node. You can just be sure that the exchange will exist as
expected on the other nodes.

-J
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