RabbitMQ difference between exclusive and auto-delete?

Question

The \"RabbitMQ in Action\" book on page 19 gives these descriptions of exclusive and auto-delete:

exclusive - When set to true, your queue becomes private

Answer 1

In contrast to what theMayer described, my testing showed that there is a difference in behavior when auto-delete is toggled while exclusive is set to true.

If auto-delete is set to false, the queue is indeed tied to the connection and will disappear when the connection is terminated.

If auto-delete is set to true, the queue will be deleted after the last consumer is cancelled.

There is a difference between a connection and a consumer. You can be connected, but not consuming a given queue. If you need the queue's lifecycle to be tied to your connection rather than to whether or not you're actively consuming it, set auto-delete to false in conjunction with exclusive=true.