[KAFKA-998] Producer should not retry on non-recoverable error codes

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 0.8.0, 0.8.1
• Assignee: Guozhang Wang
• Reporter: Joel Jacob Koshy
• Created: 03/Aug/13 00:37
• Updated: 02/Sep/14 23:06
• Resolved: 02/Sep/14 23:06

Description

Based on a discussion with Guozhang. The producer currently retries on all error codes (including messagesizetoolarge which is pointless to retry on). This can slow down the producer unnecessarily.

If at all we want to retry on that error code we would need to retry with a smaller batch size, but that's a separate discussion.