Visibility Timeout in Cloud Pub/Sub

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I'm developing a message retry mechanism using Cloud Pub/Sub and Cloud Function with Pub/Sub trigger. I would like to know if I can set a visibility timeout(Just like in RabbitMQ) on a message in Cloud Pub/Sub so that it will be visible to my Cloud Function only after a certain time and gets processed? If not, What is the workaround?

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google-cloud-platformgoogle-cloud-functionsgoogle-cloud-pubsub
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Yes, Cloud Pub/Sub has a feature called acknowledgement deadline which works similarly to visibility timeout.

According to the documentation comparing Pub/Sub to Amazon SQS:

Similarly, Pub/Sub has an acknowledgement deadline. By default, this deadline is 10 seconds, but it can be extended up to 10 minutes. For a pull subscription, subscribers can also modify the deadline on the fly on a per-message basis to allow for shorter or longer time to process a given message.