From 1b558704d390579b4aab6e571b5e49d8236939fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vincent Driessen <vincent@3rdcloud.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 22:51:26 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix: COMPACT_QUEUE should be a unique key.

This fixes #230.  Thanks, @sylvinus.
---
 rq/queue.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/rq/queue.py b/rq/queue.py
index 2404eea..e5b3b04 100644
--- a/rq/queue.py
+++ b/rq/queue.py
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 import times
+import uuid
+
 from .connections import resolve_connection
 from .job import Job, Status
 from .exceptions import (NoSuchJobError, UnpickleError,
@@ -114,7 +116,7 @@ class Queue(object):
         """Removes all "dead" jobs from the queue by cycling through it, while
         guarantueeing FIFO semantics.
         """
-        COMPACT_QUEUE = 'rq:queue:_compact'
+        COMPACT_QUEUE = 'rq:queue:_compact:{0}'.format(uuid.uuid4())
 
         self.connection.rename(self.key, COMPACT_QUEUE)
         while True: