Thanks for the write-up Jiangjie. One comment about migration plan: "For old consumers, if they see the new protocol the CRC check will fail"..
Do you mean this bug in the old consumer cannot be fixed in a backward-compatible way? Guozhang On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Jiangjie Qin <j...@linkedin.com.invalid> wrote: > Hi, > > We just created KIP-31 to propose a message format change in Kafka. > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-31+-+Message+format+change+proposal > > As a summary, the motivations are: > 1. Avoid server side message re-compression > 2. Honor time-based log roll and retention > 3. Enable offset search by timestamp at a finer granularity. > > Feedback and comments are welcome! > > Thanks, > > Jiangjie (Becket) Qin > -- -- Guozhang