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David Arthur commented on KAFKA-316:
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In addition to the reasons citing in the description, it makes client message
decoding more complex. I'm not sure what reason there would be to keep it.
> disallow recursively compressed message
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> Key: KAFKA-316
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-316
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: core
> Reporter: Jun Rao
> Fix For: 0.8.1
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> Attachments:
> 0001-KAFKA-316-Disallow-MessageSets-within-MessageSets.patch
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> Currently, it is possible to create a compressed Message that contains a set
> of Messages, each of which is further compressed. Support recursively
> compressed messages has little benefit and can complicates the on disk
> storage format. We should probably disallow this.
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