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Guozhang Wang commented on KAFKA-13332: --------------------------------------- Thanks [~ableegoldman]. My first thought on this ticket is that would be "won't fix" in a way that, if users expect they need to create new topics with more partitions in the future, they need to consider using https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-221%3A+Enhance+DSL+with+Connecting+Topic+Creation+and+Repartition+Hint > New pattern-matched topic with more partitions than existing matched topics > can crash Kafka Streams > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-13332 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-13332 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Components: streams > Reporter: A. Sophie Blee-Goldman > Priority: Major > > The partition count resolution logic in Streams is used to determine the > number of partitions for any repartition topics that don't already exist. > This is done by parsing the topology to find the number of partitions of all > upstream topics, and taking the max. For Pattern-subscribed subtopologies, > this means you need to ensure that at least one topic matching this pattern > is created prior to starting up the app. That topic, or topics, will > determine the number of partitions for any downstream repartitions. > The problem is that repartition topics are created once, the first time the > app is started up. After that, during each rebalance Streams will validate > all repartition topics including checking for their existence, and verifying > they have the correct number of partitions. This check will fail if a new > topic is created after the first initialization, which matches the pattern > but has more partitions than any of the existing topics. > This means that unfortunately, you can't create a new input topic that > matches the pattern your app is subscribed to unless it has equal or fewer > partitions than the existing matching topics. If you do, you would need to > stop all instances and delete the existing repartition topics before creating > this new topic -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)