Pierce Lopez

@mreiferson recently started at a new job/employer, and is waiting to get official authorization to contribute to NSQ

But you're running a fork of nsq 0.3.8 right? So it doesn't really benefit your organization much if this is merged? (I'm curious why 0.3.8 - which of the interfaces...

There wasn't any plan for supporting this... but for some cases, what you want is to just completely empty a topic or channel, to throw out a huge backlog of...

I might rephrase: nsq is designed for data you don't want to easily lose. It tends to think it should be an exceptional and intentional case when you "throw out"...

@paddyforan you're pretty much right - messages will wait in a topic until any channel exists, and then when one channel comes into existence and gets the messages, any channels...

Since the discussion here, ephemeral topics were added (back in 2015). Ephemeral topics are automatically deleted when the last channel is deleted (and this works with ephemeral channels that are...

I'd call it a known limitation - but nsqadmin should probably handle it more gracefully. The purpose of creating topics with nsqadmin, is to also be able to pre-create channels...

It seems like it would be simpler to just dis-allow publishing messages. Allow creating channels like normal, and don't bother deleting any before regular shutdown. Just return error for any...

> https://github.com/nsqio/nsq/issues/1302#issuecomment-733466899 > If you are trying to remove a nsqd instance from rotation where that nsqd instance had 10 different topics, but just one or two with notable backlogs,...

I think that the situation that #1208 is attempting to optimize, which the existing benchmark setups here do not emulate, is when there are many channels per topic, and they...