Emmanuel Brard created KAFKA-14069: -------------------------------------- Summary: Allow custom configuration of foreign key join internal topics Key: KAFKA-14069 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-14069 Project: Kafka Issue Type: Improvement Components: streams Reporter: Emmanuel Brard
Internal topic supporting foreign key joins (-subscription-registration-topic and -subscription-response-topic) are automatically created with_ infinite retention_ (retention.ms=-1, retention.bytes=-1). As far as I understand those topics are used for communication between tasks that are involved in the FK, the intermediate result though is persisted in a compacted topic (-subscription-store-changelog). This means, if I understood right, that during normal operation of the stream application, once a message is read from the registration/subscription topic, it will not be read again, even in case of recovery (the position in those topics is committed). Because we have very large tables being joined this way with very high changes frequency, we end up with FK internal topics in the order of 1 or 2 TB. This is complicated to maintain especially in term of disk space. I was wondering if: - this infinite retention is really a required configuration and if not - this infinite retention could be replaced with a configurable one (for example of 1 week, meaning that I accept that in case of failure I must this my app within one week) -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.10#820010)