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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-9303: --------------------------------------- Github user EAlexRojas commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5991#discussion_r190519624 --- Diff: flink-connectors/flink-connector-kafka-base/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/connectors/kafka/FlinkKafkaConsumerBase.java --- @@ -235,7 +243,8 @@ public FlinkKafkaConsumerBase( Pattern topicPattern, KeyedDeserializationSchema<T> deserializer, long discoveryIntervalMillis, - boolean useMetrics) { + boolean useMetrics, + boolean checkUnavailablePartitions) { --- End diff -- I did it in that way only because this is something new, so I though that maybe you may want it to be configurable. But you are right I cannot think of a case we would prefer to keep the unavailable partitions. I'll update the PR to make it the default behaviour if it's ok for you. > Unassign partitions from Kafka client if partitions become unavailable > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-9303 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-9303 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Kafka Connector > Reporter: Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai > Priority: Major > Fix For: 1.6.0 > > > Originally reported in ML: > [http://apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.2336050.n4.nabble.com/Dynamically-deleting-kafka-topics-does-not-remove-partitions-from-kafkaConsumer-td19946.html] > The problem is that the Kafka consumer has no notion of "closed" partitions > at the moment, so statically assigned partitions to the Kafka client is never > removed and is always continuously requested for records. > This causes LOG noises as reported in the reported mail thread. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)