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Vishnu Priya reassigned KAFKA-16300:
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Assignee: Vishnu Priya
> Wrong documentation for producer config retries
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> Key: KAFKA-16300
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-16300
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: documentation
> Affects Versions: 3.1.2, 3.2.3, 3.3.0, 3.4.1
> Reporter: Fede
> Assignee: Vishnu Priya
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: documentation
>
> In documentation from version 3.1 to version 3.4, it looks like the retries
> explanation has a bug related to max.in.flight.request.per.connection related
> parameter and possible message reordering.
> [https://kafka.apache.org/31/documentation.html#producerconfigs_retries]
> [https://kafka.apache.org/32/documentation.html#producerconfigs_retries]
> [https://kafka.apache.org/33/documentation.html#producerconfigs_retries]
> [https://kafka.apache.org/34/documentation.html#producerconfigs_retries]
>
> in particular, the section
> Allowing retries while setting enable.idempotence to false and
> max.in.flight.requests.per.connection to 1 will potentially change the
> ordering of records because if two batches are sent to a single partition,
> and the first fails and is retried but the second succeeds, then the records
> in the second batch may appear first.
>
> Is states
> max.in.flight.requests.per.connection to 1
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> It should be said
> max.in.flight.requests.per.connection to *greater than* 1
>
> This bug has been fixed in the latest versions, but it still confuses users
> using affected versions as the meaning is the opposite of what it should be.
>
> I created a PR ,
> [https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/15413|https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/15413)]
> For version 3.2, but the build failed. Not sure why.
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