Hi, I have some questions about creating a realtime table to ingest a Kafka topic data. 1, If the topic hasn’t been created yet, will the table be added to Pinot? As my tests, Pinot 0.9.3 failed and returned an error. Pinot 0.10 created the table. 2, Pinot returned ‘Failed to construct kafka consumer’ error, and the table could not be seen on the Pinot Web UI. But when I tried to add the table with the same table config and schema, an error occurred with a message like table exists. So I had to rename the table, but got the same error. In this case, if I tried to this several times, then there would be several tables exist in Pinot but could not be seen in Pinot Web UI. Is there some way I can delete those tables? 3, Any idea of the reason for the error-Could not get PartitionGroupMetadata for topic xyz?

1. it should not be added. 0.9.3 beahvior was correct, 2. this is being tracked in https://github.com/apache/pinot/issues/8500, mind adding to that issue with yout experience? 3. kafka broker is inaccesiible due to authentication or incorrect host/port

@User As question 1, I will do more tests in both Pinot versions later and add my results here. As question 2, I’ll add my tests info later.