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Jeremy Custenborder commented on KAFKA-4107:
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I would say no. It should throw a bad request saying the connector is not
defined. Personally I think we need to have some better hygiene when it comes
to cleaning up offsets in general. It's confusing that if I delete my connector
and recreate it with the same name it starts at the old offsets. In general I
think I should be connect should be better about cleaning up offsets for both
the source and sink. I would want to be able to stop a connector, restart from
a specific offset, start the connector all through the API. If I delete a
connector I would expect all offsets to be removed.
> Support offset reset capability in Kafka Connect
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> Key: KAFKA-4107
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-4107
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: KafkaConnect
> Reporter: Jason Gustafson
> Priority: Major
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> It would be useful in some cases to be able to reset connector offsets. For
> example, if a topic in Kafka corresponding to a source database is
> accidentally deleted (or deleted because of corrupt data), an administrator
> may want to reset offsets and reproduce the log from the beginning. It may
> also be useful to have support for overriding offsets, but that seems like a
> less likely use case.
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