The description of the compression.type config property in the documentation is somewhat confusing. It begins with "Specify the final compression type for a given topic.", yet it is defined as a broker configuration property and it is not listed under topic-level configuration properties.
Reading the discussion in KAFKA-1499 leads me to believe that the broker level property it a default that can be overridden by using the same property at the topic level. Is this correct? If so, it would be best to make the documentation clearer and to add the property to the topic-level config properties section in addition to the broker level config section.
