The short answer is : yes, a consumer can only consume messages up to the
High Watermark.
The long answer is not exactly, for the following reasons:
At the partition level you have 3 major offsets that are important to the
health of the partition and accessibility from the consumer pov:
LeO (log
Hey Nag Y,
I’m not exactly sure if reducing the replication factor while a broker is
down would release the messages to be consumed (or at least not on all
partitions) for the simple fact that it might just remove the last replica
in the list which might not mach your unreachable broker.
Personall
Thanks D C. Thanks a lot . That is quite a detailed explanation.
If I understand correctly, ( ignoring the case where producers
create transactions) - since the replica is down and never comes , the high
watermark CANNOT advance and the consumer CAN NOT read the messages which
were sent after the r
