Github user GJL commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5410#discussion_r190654087 --- Diff: flink-connectors/flink-connector-rabbitmq/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/connectors/rabbitmq/RMQSource.java --- @@ -151,7 +151,9 @@ public void open(Configuration config) throws Exception { if (channel == null) { throw new RuntimeException("None of RabbitMQ channels are available"); } - setupQueue(); + if (rmqConnectionConfig.hasToCreateQueueOnSetup()) { --- End diff -- There was a PR that did something similar and got rejected. See: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4979 and https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-8018
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