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Jobs discarded even though attempts remained ? #1165
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I think I just encountered an issue where jobs were discarded and marked at "max_attempts=1" after a service restart.
I just upgraded to v0.31.0 (go 1.26).
I have a job type for which I know for a fact that we only ever enqueue them with the default value of max_attempts (so MaxAttempts=0 in the struct, meaning 25 attempts). I'm also fairly sure that nothing was modified manually.
All those jobs (252 succeeded, 78 discarded) where created at 2026-03-11 17:01:49.393302 +00:00 with a scheduled_at at the same time.
This happened just 2 minutes after a service restart, and about 8 second after an info log about the job rescuer / cleaner run.
I have no indication that my application code created those jobs, so I'm thinking some background job might have done something ?
I'm a bit out of ideas, but I thought I'd ask for an opinion here.
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brandur commentedon Mar 12, 2026
Hey @Pascal-Delange, this doesn't give us too much to work with and I doubt we'll be able to give you much debugging advice.
Maybe something you could try would be to write a custom hook and put that into your client:
https://riverqueue.com/docs/hooks#hook-operations
Then if you detect that a job is being inserted with
MaxAttempts== 1 you could flag it and write some debug information.