From 8aa2c7b5473b99bbfedd2736aa208321fcd5afae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zev Benjamin <zev@zulip.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:02:42 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Make the purge_queue management command more efficient

Before we were removing items individually from the queue.  We now
directly use RabbitMQ's queue purging mechanism.

(imported from commit 62ab52c724c5a221b4c81a967154a4046a579f84)
---
 zerver/management/commands/purge_queue.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/zerver/management/commands/purge_queue.py b/zerver/management/commands/purge_queue.py
index c1659c0584..0970d22147 100644
--- a/zerver/management/commands/purge_queue.py
+++ b/zerver/management/commands/purge_queue.py
@@ -14,4 +14,6 @@ class Command(BaseCommand):
 
         queue_name = args[0]
         queue = SimpleQueueClient()
-        queue.drain_queue(queue_name)
+        queue.ensure_queue(queue_name, lambda: None)
+        queue.channel.queue_purge(queue_name)
+        print "Done"