[rabbitmq-discuss] Understanding Federation

[Simon MacMullen]

On 23/02/12 11:10, Simon MacMullen wrote:
> The queue is there to buffer messages that are published to the upstream
> exchange and have not yet been consumed from the downstream exchange.

Sorry, this is clumsily phrased. I could say:

...have not yet been consumed *by* the downstream exchange, which 
consumes messages from the upstream queue and then publishes them to 
itself for routing to local queues.

Cheers, Simon

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Simon MacMullen
RabbitMQ, VMware