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Jeremy Custenborder commented on KAFKA-4107: -------------------------------------------- I would say no. It should throw a bad request saying the connector is not defined. Personally I think we need to have some better hygiene when it comes to cleaning up offsets in general. It's confusing that if I delete my connector and recreate it with the same name it starts at the old offsets. In general I think I should be connect should be better about cleaning up offsets for both the source and sink. I would want to be able to stop a connector, restart from a specific offset, start the connector all through the API. If I delete a connector I would expect all offsets to be removed. > Support offset reset capability in Kafka Connect > ------------------------------------------------ > > Key: KAFKA-4107 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-4107 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: KafkaConnect > Reporter: Jason Gustafson > Priority: Major > > It would be useful in some cases to be able to reset connector offsets. For > example, if a topic in Kafka corresponding to a source database is > accidentally deleted (or deleted because of corrupt data), an administrator > may want to reset offsets and reproduce the log from the beginning. It may > also be useful to have support for overriding offsets, but that seems like a > less likely use case. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)