[rabbitmq-discuss] Active-Active & Consumer Cancellation Notifications

Sat Oct 22 23:39:12 BST 2011

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 02:42:19PM -0600, Jason J. W. Williams wrote:
> That is if the
> consumer is not attached to the node that dies, and it doesn't
> understand the consumer cancellation, will it's subscription still
> receive new messages after the failover event?

The connection will still be live, as will be the channel. But the
consumption will have died silently. Thus it will not get any further
messages after the fail over event. Thus clients really need to support
this extension for consumers to have a chance of coping. Pester the
author of your favourite client if they don't already support this ;)

Matthew