[rabbitmq-discuss] ewbie question - need modified fanaout/publish/subscribe behavior

Matthias Radestock matthias at rabbitmq.com
Thu Nov 8 16:05:09 GMT 2012


Scott,

On 08/11/12 15:57, scott taggart wrote:
> As I research and better understand AMQP better, I learn that messages
> are never queued in an exchange - they are always routed to existing
> queues or tossed.  Given my basic requirement that messages
> be queued for as-yet non-existent queues, this seems not possible
> directly with amqp/rabbitmq.

Yes, that's basically correct. Though it's not too hard to be build 
something along those lines on top of amqp/rabbitmq as long as you don't 
care about certain edge cases.

Btw, when in your hypothetical system can the server ever forget a 
message? Never?

Regards,

Matthias.


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