[APLO-376] Not possible to empty dlq

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Won't Do
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.1
• Component/s: apollo-broker
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Kim Schneider
• Created: 12/Mar/15 15:26
• Updated: 06/Apr/22 19:16
• Resolved: 06/Apr/22 19:16

Description

Our messages are persistent but have an expiry date. If they expire they are no more important to us and can be deleted. But when the messages expire they stay in the data files and there is no way to remove or consume them anymore. This results in a huge space consumption.

We wanted to move the expired files to a dlqueue. As there is no processExpired = false like in ActiveMQ we wanted to consume the dlqeues and drop those messages. But just like before the messages stay in the database. Even worse, if we consume all messages in the dlq and restart Apollo, the same messages can be consumed again and again and again.