candlerb opened a new issue #5685: Documentation: skip-all versus clear-backlog URL: https://github.com/apache/pulsar/issues/5685 **Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** Documentation shows [skip-all](https://pulsar.apache.org/docs/en/pulsar-admin/#skip-all) followed by [clear-backlog](https://pulsar.apache.org/docs/en/pulsar-admin/#clear-backlog-1), both at the topic with no description of what the difference is. I don't know when it's appropriate to use one or the other. Note: there is a separate [clear-backlog](https://pulsar.apache.org/docs/en/pulsar-admin/#clear-backlog) command documented at the namespace level (rather than the topic level) UPDATE 1: pulsar-admin doesn't seem to recognise `topics skip-all` at all. ``` ubuntu@ldex-pulsar:~$ apache-pulsar-2.4.1/bin/pulsar-admin topics clear-backlog The following option is required: -s, --subscription Skip all the messages for the subscription Usage: clear-backlog [options] persistent://tenant/namespace/topic Options: * -s, --subscription Subscription to be cleared ubuntu@ldex-pulsar:~$ apache-pulsar-2.4.1/bin/pulsar-admin topics skip-all Expected a command, got skip-all Exception in thread "main" com.beust.jcommander.ParameterException: Asking description for unknown command: null at com.beust.jcommander.JCommander.getCommandDescription(JCommander.java:1003) at com.beust.jcommander.JCommander.usage(JCommander.java:988) at com.beust.jcommander.JCommander.usage(JCommander.java:980) at com.beust.jcommander.JCommander.usage(JCommander.java:972) at org.apache.pulsar.admin.cli.CmdBase.run(CmdBase.java:49) at org.apache.pulsar.admin.cli.PulsarAdminTool.run(PulsarAdminTool.java:218) at org.apache.pulsar.admin.cli.PulsarAdminTool.main(PulsarAdminTool.java:260) ^C ubuntu@ldex-pulsar:~$ apache-pulsar-2.4.1/bin/pulsar-admin topics skip-all persistent://public/default/my-topic -s my-subscription Expected a command, got skip-all Exception in thread "main" com.beust.jcommander.ParameterException: Asking description for unknown command: null at com.beust.jcommander.JCommander.getCommandDescription(JCommander.java:1003) at com.beust.jcommander.JCommander.usage(JCommander.java:988) at com.beust.jcommander.JCommander.usage(JCommander.java:980) at com.beust.jcommander.JCommander.usage(JCommander.java:972) at org.apache.pulsar.admin.cli.CmdBase.run(CmdBase.java:49) at org.apache.pulsar.admin.cli.PulsarAdminTool.run(PulsarAdminTool.java:218) at org.apache.pulsar.admin.cli.PulsarAdminTool.main(PulsarAdminTool.java:260) ^C ``` But there appears to be a test case for it in [pulsar-client-tools-test/src/test/java/org/apache/pulsar/admin/cli/PulsarAdminToolTest.java](https://github.com/apache/pulsar/blob/master/pulsar-client-tools-test/src/test/java/org/apache/pulsar/admin/cli/PulsarAdminToolTest.java#L714) ``` topics.run(split("skip-all persistent://myprop/clust/ns1/ds1 -s sub1")); verify(mockTopics).skipAllMessages("persistent://myprop/clust/ns1/ds1", "sub1"); ``` `clear-backlog` works at the topic+subscription level: ``` ubuntu@ldex-pulsar:~$ apache-pulsar-2.4.1/bin/pulsar-admin topics clear-backlog persistent://public/default/my-topic -s my-subscription ubuntu@ldex-pulsar:~$ ```
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