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Sönke Liebau commented on KAFKA-8825:
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I think that might also help in DR / failover scenarios where a secondary
cluster has no offsets for the consumer groups, when failing over currently,
offsets need to be set for all groups, quite often to now - 2h or something
similar to ensure nothing is missed.
In that scenario a reset strategy like this would be useful as well, and
probably in many more that I can't think of of the top of my head.
> Add option to reset consumer offset by relative time
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> Key: KAFKA-8825
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-8825
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Jason Gustafson
> Priority: Major
> Labels: needs-kip
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> When the consumer first initializes its position or when it encounters an
> offset out of range error, we have two automatic reset policies: earliest and
> latest. With longer retention times, the earliest reset option is often too
> expensive and the latest reset requires more time to build recent context.
> Users can also set an auto reset policy of "none" and handle it themselves,
> but it may be useful to have a configurable option between earliest and
> latest. So a user can reset to one day ago or one hour ago for example. Would
> this be useful?
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