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  1. Kafka
  2. KAFKA-16300

Wrong documentation for producer config retries

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    • Bug
    • Status: Open
    • Minor
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • 3.3.0, 3.1.2, 3.2.3, 3.4.1
    • None
    • documentation

    Description

      In documentation from version 3.1 to version 3.4, it looks like the retries explanation has a bug related to max.in.flight.request.per.connection related parameter and possible message reordering.

      https://kafka.apache.org/31/documentation.html#producerconfigs_retries

      https://kafka.apache.org/32/documentation.html#producerconfigs_retries

      https://kafka.apache.org/33/documentation.html#producerconfigs_retries

      https://kafka.apache.org/34/documentation.html#producerconfigs_retries

       

      in particular, the section

      Allowing retries while setting enable.idempotence to false and max.in.flight.requests.per.connection to 1 will potentially change the ordering of records because if two batches are sent to a single partition, and the first fails and is retried but the second succeeds, then the records in the second batch may appear first.

       

      Is states 

      max.in.flight.requests.per.connection to 1

       

      It should be said

      max.in.flight.requests.per.connection to greater than  1

       

      This bug has been fixed in the latest versions, but it still confuses users using affected versions as the meaning is the opposite of what it should be.

       

      I created a PR , https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/15413
      For version 3.2, but the build failed. Not sure why.

       

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