From bf35d206e7012c5bdb6c41d11e38abb8fb81b619 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: gal cohen Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2021 15:35:37 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] alter doc (#1304) Co-authored-by: galcohen --- docs/reference/kombu.transport.SQS.rst | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/docs/reference/kombu.transport.SQS.rst b/docs/reference/kombu.transport.SQS.rst index 87e11d28..89cb2a0a 100644 --- a/docs/reference/kombu.transport.SQS.rst +++ b/docs/reference/kombu.transport.SQS.rst @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ Back-off policy ------------------------ Back-off policy is using SQS visibility timeout mechanism altering the time difference between task retries. +The mechanism changes message specific ``visibility timeout`` from queue ``Default visibility timeout`` to policy configured timeout. The number of retries is managed by SQS (specifically by the ``ApproximateReceiveCount`` message attribute) and no further action is required by the user. Configuring the queues and backoff policy::