In production, we are not deleting topics yet. In test environments, if we have to delete topics, we wipe out the cluster. If this is a feature that most users are blocked on, I think it makes sense to prioritize https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-330.
Thanks, Neha On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Vadim Keylis <vkeylis2...@gmail.com> wrote: > How do you guys delete a topic if such need arise? > > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Neha Narkhede <neha.narkh...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > I mentioned this in a different thread. I think the > 0.8.0-beta1-candidate1 > > includes the script, but we have removed it later. I think when we > publish > > 0.8-final, this should be resolved. > > > > Thanks, > > Neha > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Neha Narkhede <neha.narkh...@gmail.com > > >wrote: > > > > > Vadim, > > > > > > The JIRA tracking this feature is > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-330. > > > Until we have this feature, we should remove any scripts that give the > > > impression of deleting a topic, as Jay suggested. I tried looking under > > > bin/ but couldn't find any delete topic or partition script. > > > > > > Can you tell us which script you are using? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Neha > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Vadim Keylis <vkeylis2...@gmail.com > > >wrote: > > > > > >> Jay or Neha. What is the process of deleting the topic if the script > > >> included in the repository creates false impression? > > >> > > >> Thanks, > > >> Vadim > > >> > > >> > > >> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Jay Kreps <jay.kr...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > >> > > >> > We should really remove the delete script from 0.8 if we plan to > > release > > >> > without delete support. Right now it appears to work but doesn't > which > > >> is > > >> > clearly not good. > > >> > > > >> > -Jay > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Neha Narkhede < > > >> neha.narkh...@gmail.com > > >> > >wrote: > > >> > > > >> > > We currently don't have the delete topic feature in Kafka 0.8. So > > any > > >> > > manual attempts to do so might have a negative impact on > > >> functionality. > > >> > > > > >> > > Thanks, > > >> > > Neha > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Yu, Libo <libo...@citi.com> > > wrote: > > >> > > > > >> > > > Hi team, > > >> > > > > > >> > > > When I delete a topic, the topic is deleted from zookeeper but > its > > >> log > > >> > > > files are not deleted from > > >> > > > Brokers. > > >> > > > > > >> > > > When I restart a broker, the broker will try to sync the log > > files > > >> > whose > > >> > > > topic has been deleted. > > >> > > > Manually deleting the log files will resolve the issue. Should > > >> broker > > >> > > > ignore log files whose topic > > >> > > > has been deleted? > > >> > > > > > >> > > > Regards, > > >> > > > > > >> > > > Libo > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > >> > > > > > > > > >
