Yeva Byzek created KAFKA-10595: ---------------------------------- Summary: Explain idempotent producer in max.in.flight.requests.per.connection Key: KAFKA-10595 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-10595 Project: Kafka Issue Type: Improvement Components: docs Reporter: Yeva Byzek
A user asked: {quote}Is the idempotent producer also a total order producer? meaning, despite having max.inflight > 1, it will keep message production ordering? My understanding of this has always been no, but I'd like to confirm... {quote} I believe a contributing factor to this question is that [https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#max.in.flight.requests.per.connection] reads {quote}Note that if this setting is set to be greater than 1 and there are failed sends, there is a risk of message re-ordering due to retries (i.e., if retries are enabled). {quote} Suggestion: it may be clearer if we augmented this description to say that message re-ordering would not happen if {{enable.idempotent=true}} -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)