[rabbitmq-discuss] Recycling messages that have been consumed but not acked

[Dmitry Demeshchuk]

Looks like basic.recover is what I want, right?

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Dmitry Demeshchuk <demeshchuk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have an Erlang application that uses multiple nodes each with
> several rabbitmq consumers connected to different queues. When a node
> goes down, its consumers are rebalanced among the rest running nodes.
>
> However, there's a problem. It may take minutes between message
> consumption and acking, so most likely when a node goes down, there
> are some messages that have been consumed but haven't been acked. And
> seems like in that case the newly spawned consumers that are
> rebalanced to the other nodes don't get those unacked messages, since
> they are already considered to be consumed.
>
> So, my question is, is there a way to make all unacked messages in a
> queue become ready for consumption again?
>
> Thank you.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Dmitry Demeshchuk
>



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Best regards,
Dmitry Demeshchuk