Details
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Bug
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Status: Resolved
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Blocker
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Resolution: Fixed
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0.8.0
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Description
Consumer may not notice new partitions because the propagation of the metadata to servers can be delayed.
Options:
1. As Jun suggested on KAFKA-956, the easiest fix would be to read the new partition data from zookeeper instead of a kafka server.
2. Run a fetch metadata loop in consumer, and set auto.offset.reset to smallest once the consumer has started.
1 sounds easier to do. If 1 causes long delays in reading all partitions at the start of every rebalance, 2 may be worth considering.
The same issue affects MirrorMaker when new topics are created, MirrorMaker may not notice all partitions of the new topics until the next rebalance.