RabbitMQ - purge a queue from all of its unacked messages

Question

I have thousands of unacked messages in my dev environment which I can't restart.
Is there a way to remove (purge) all messages even if they are unacknowledged?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25114230/rabbitmq-purge-a-queue-from-all-of-its-unacked-messages

Answer 1

Close the channel that the unacked messages reside on, which will nack them back into the queue, then call purge.