I agree with Lari's point. We should provide an admin tool to help
users cancel a message, including delayed messages or regular
messages, as a best-effort operation.

Additionally, if you have any customized requirements, such as a new
set of APIs for delayed messages—which may include an API for
canceling delayed messages—you can implement your idea in the
contributor repository [0].

[0] - https://github.com/apache/pulsar-java-contrib

On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM Lari Hotari <lhot...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> Good work, Sinan.
>
> I'm just wondering if the operation in the admin API should be directly about 
> acknowledging the message instead of having a specific operation for 
> cancelling a delayed message.
> There might be a useful to "cancel" an individual message in a backlog where 
> delayed messaging isn't used at all with the same reasons as you have stated 
> for cancelling delayed messages. The operation could possibly provide some 
> best efforts based response whether this message has already been sent out to 
> consumers for delivery and whether the message was already acknowledged.
>
> It would be great to have some comments from other community members as well.
>
> -Lari
>
> On 2025/06/08 05:47:27 SiNan Liu wrote:
> > The document has been updated, we will implement the delayed message
> > cancellation function through acknowledge message.
> >
> > The configuration that needs attention regarding the message
> > "acknowledgment hole" is also reflected in the documentation.
> >
> > https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/24370
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > sinan
> >
> >
> > Lari Hotari <lhot...@apache.org> 于2025年6月6日周五 19:54写道:
> >
> > > Sounds good to me.
> > >
> > > One consideration related to message acknowledgements is that there
> > > are currently relatively low limits to how many acknowledgements can
> > > be persisted.
> > >
> > > Some details in the discussion
> > > https://github.com/apache/pulsar/discussions/23990
> > >
> > > There are configurable values
> > > managedLedgerMaxUnackedRangesToPersistInMetadataStore,
> > > managedLedgerPersistIndividualAckAsLongArray,
> > > managedLedgerMaxUnackedRangesToPersist and
> > > managedCursorInfoCompressionType to allow storing increasing the
> > > limits without exceeding ZooKeeper's maximum ZNode size configured in
> > > Pulsar (-Djute.maxbuffer=10485760).
> > >
> > > One detail is that managedLedgerPersistIndividualAckAsLongArray is
> > > currently missing from broker.conf. It's only in
> > >
> > > pulsar-broker-common/src/main/java/org/apache/pulsar/broker/ServiceConfiguration.java
> > > . Configuring maxBatchDeletedIndexToPersist was completely missing.
> > > That's addressed in https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/24392
> > > The managedCursorInfoCompressionType setting is currently missing from
> > > broker.conf, that's addressed by
> > > https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/24391
> > > PRs https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/24392 and
> > > https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/24391 also contain better
> > > documentation for the settings.
> > > We should also reconsider the default values for the various settings
> > > in Pulsar 4.1, for example, it would be useful to enable compression
> > > by default.
> > >
> > > -Lari
> > >
> > > On Fri, 6 Jun 2025 at 05:00, SiNan Liu <liusinan1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Yes, I'm also re-evaluating the current implementation.
> > > >
> > > > I believe that implementing it directly via message acknowledgment would
> > > be
> > > > better, and I've been testing this approach over the past couple of 
> > > > days.
> > > >
> > > > The current PIP modifies the internals of BucketDelayedDeliveryTracker,
> > > and
> > > > this solution isn't as good as the message acknowledgment method.
> > > >
> > > > Later, I will change this PIP's implementation to use message
> > > > acknowledgment, and the current approach will become an alternative
> > > > solution.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > sinan
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Lari Hotari <lhot...@apache.org>于2025年6月5日 周四19:56写道:
> > > >
> > > > > Thanks for making the proposal and putting a significant effort in
> > > > > preparing it.
> > > > >
> > > > > Would it be possible to consider an alternative solution where delayed
> > > > > messages
> > > > > could be cancelled by acknowledging the messages?
> > > > >
> > > > > The admin API doesn't current contain an endpoint for acknowledging a
> > > > > message, but I don't see a reason why that couldn't be introduced.
> > > > >
> > > > > Any thoughts about this?
> > > > >
> > > > > -Lari
> > > > >
> > > > > On 2025/06/01 13:16:43 SiNan Liu wrote:
> > > > > > Hi all
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I want to start a discussion on
> > > > > > PIP-423: Add Support for Cancelling Individual Delayed Messages
> > > > > > Proposal link: https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/24370
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm looking forward to hearing from you.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > sinan
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > >
> >

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