Hmm, which Kafka version are you running? From the code it looks we should have already ignored the deletion of a topic if it does not exist.
Jiangjie (Becket) Qin On 5/18/15, 10:15 AM, "Dillian Murphey" <crackshotm...@gmail.com> wrote: >If a broker doesn't have the topic, and I run delete topic, that topic >will >be in a "pending delete" state forever. > >What am I doing wrong here? > >Also, what if I have data loss and I just want to delete the dang topic >form zookeeper directly with non of this pending stuff. > >Thanks