[rabbitmq-discuss] Autodelete queues not being deleted

Tue Mar 20 14:44:35 GMT 2012

Hrmmmm, you bring up a good point. A queue with this name definitely once
had consumers. It looks like there were never any deliveries for the exact
queue in question though. I'm thinking that the reconnect logic in the
library I'm using is causing queues to be redeclared when my app is
shutting down.

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Simon MacMullen <simon at rabbitmq.com>wrote:

> On 20/03/12 14:23, Dave Stevens wrote:
>
>> I frequently notice that queues which were created with autodelete are
>> not actually deleted once there are no more consumers.
>>
>
> Just to be absolutely clear here: you mean they had consumers once, and
> then the consumers all went away? If the queue never has consumers it will
> not autodelete (otherwise it would autodelete as soon as you created it).
>
> If you do mean that there were once consumers and the queue is still not
> getting deleted, then yes, that would be wrong. We do test for this though
> :-) so a test program would be helpful.
>
> Cheers, Simon
>
> --
> Simon MacMullen
> RabbitMQ, VMware
>
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