Since DescribeTopics is just handled via a Metadata request behind the scene, it is possible that if the request is sent to some brokers with stale metadata (not yet received the metadata update request). But I would not expect it to "always" return the deleted topic partition, unless the broker being queried is partitioned from the controller and hence would never receive the metadata update request.
Guozhang On Sun, Aug 8, 2021 at 6:08 PM Boyang Chen <reluctanthero...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey there, > > Has anyone experienced the case where the admin delete topic command was > issued but the DescribeTopics command always returns the topic partition? > What's the expected time for the topic metadata to disappear? > > Boyang > -- -- Guozhang
