I think, but don't know for sure, it doesn't matter for consumers, since the messages you read are still 'old' images. I would expect errors van you use an old producer, and/or when consuming the record from the old producer.
On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 7:09 AM Nikhil Goyal <nownik...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I created a new cluster with kafka 10 broker. I have the following settings > in server properties file: > > inter.broker.protocol.version=0.10.0.0 > message.format.version=0.10.0 > log.message.format.version=0.10.0 > > When I try to read from old console consumer it still succeeds. Online > documents say old consumer is not compatible as long as message format > version is not set to 0.8.0. So I wanted to ask if I made a mistake > somewhere in the server_properties or if this is the expected behavior? > > Thanks > Nikhil >