Thanks for the info!

On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 7:46 AM Dawid Wysakowicz <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Rex,
>
> The approach you described is definitely possible in the DataStream API.
> You could replace the uid of your Kafka source and start your job with your
> checkpoint with the allowNonRestoredState option enabled[1]. I am afraid
> though it is not possible to change the uid in Table API/SQL
>
> Another approach that you could try is to edit the checkpoint via the
> State Processor API[2] and increase the checkpointed offsets.
>
> Best,
>
> Dawid
>
> [1]
> https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.12/deployment/cli.html#starting-a-job-from-a-savepoint
>
> [2]
> https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.12/dev/libs/state_processor_api.html
> On 16/03/2021 20:03, Rex Fenley wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm wondering how, in the event of a poison pill record on Kafka, to
> advance a partition's checkpointed offsets by 1 when using the TableAPI/SQL.
>
> It is my understanding that when checkpointing is enabled Flink uses its
> own checkpoint committed offsets and not the offsets committed to Kafka
> when starting a job from a checkpoint.
>
> In the event that there is a poison pill record in Kafka that is crashing
> the Flink job, we may want to simply advance our checkpointed offsets by 1
> for the partition, past the poison record, and then continue operation as
> normal. We do not want to lose any other state in Flink however.
>
> I'm wondering how to go about this then. It's easy enough to have Kafka
> advance its committed offsets. Is there a way to tell Flink to ignore
> checkpointed offsets and instead respect the offsets committed to Kafka for
> a consumer group when restoring from a checkpoint?
> If so we could:
> 1. Advance Kafka's offsets.
> 2. Run our job from the checkpoint and have it use Kafka's offsets and
> then checkpoint with new Kafka offsets.
> 3. Stop the job, and rerun it using Flink's committed, now advanced,
> offsets.
>
> Is this possible? Are there any better strategies?
>
> Thanks!
>
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