Release a message back to SQS

Question

I have a some EC2 servers pulling work off of a SQS queue. Occasionally, they encounter a situation where the can\'t finish the job. I have the process email me of the con

Answer 1

If you have read a message and decide, for whatever reason, that you do not want to process it and would rather make it immediately available to other readers of the queue, you can simply set that message's visibility timeout to zero using the change_visibility method of the Message object in boto. See The SQS Developer's Guide for details.