On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Neha Narkhede <neha.narkh...@gmail.com>wrote:
> In 0.8, this is controlled by the auto.create.topics.enable config on the > brokers. If this is set to true, topics will be created when a topic > metadata request is sent for a new topic. This feature is provided to aid > with the 0.7->0.8 migration tool and the mirror maker tools. These tools > copy data for almost all topics from one cluster to the other, so auto > creating topics makes it much easier to migrate data between clusters. I just want to add, that we have a use case where it is nice to able to have auto-created topics, as part of the design in regular operation. Thus, I'd hope the 'auto.create.topics.enable' has a purpose beyond just migrating data, etc! It should be a first class use case, in my view. Thanks!
