[rabbitmq-discuss] Behaviour of Federated Queues

Mon Jan 27 17:35:18 GMT 2014

On 01/27/2014 12:26 PM, Simon MacMullen wrote:
> On 27/01/2014 15:59, Josh West wrote:
>> This is confirmed.  If you create and immediately delete a queue, with
>> federation configured, the upstream will also create the queue but not
>> delete the queue.
>>
>> This sounds like it may be a bug with federated queues.
>
> I don't think it is - in general it's not intended that deletion of 
> objects should get transferred across federation links. There's no 
> grand theoretical reason for that, just that I thought that it might 
> be a good way to shoot yourself in the foot. It's OK to accidentally 
> create a bunch of federated stuff on remote servers; you can just go 
> and delete it if you don't want it. But to delete things remotely 
> seems like the sort of thing that will make somebody very unhappy one 
> day.
>
> Cheers, Simon
>

Oh ok.  If it is intended behaviour to not have deletions propagated, 
then this throws a wrench in my RPC-via-Federated-Queues design.  Unless 
I'm ok with just setting queue expiration to some sufficient amount of 
time for each of the RPC callback queues.

Josh West
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