I'm running starrocks routine loads for kafka and ...
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Travis (YaaaDingus)
02/27/2026, 6:32 PMI'm running starrocks routine loads for kafka and I can't seem to get the routine load to actually start from the beginning of the topic. I've tried stopping and recreating the jobs, removing the consumer group manually, etc. Nothing I do seems to get the routine load to start from the beginning.
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Meshari AlOtaibi
02/27/2026, 6:51 PMHave you tried setting the Kafka property to:
“property.kafka_default_offsets” = “OFFSET_BEGINNING”
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Travis (YaaaDingus)
02/27/2026, 6:54 PMThat doesn't seem to matter for some reason. It always starts at latest. However I just paused the routine load, altered it to manually set the offsets for each partition to OFFSET_BEGINNING and that worked.
I'm not sure if the kafka_fault_offsets property is just not working, or if in this case for some reason starrocks is caching the progress of a previously stopped routine load. I'm not really sure.
Travis (YaaaDingus)
02/27/2026, 6:55 PMI'd guess that the property just isn't working correctly, because as far as I know we never read through to the end of this topic, because the destination table was empty up until I manually reset the offsets just now
Travis (YaaaDingus)
02/27/2026, 6:55 PMoh boy, this actually might be my mistake I'm just now realizing that I have
property.kafka_default_offsetproperty.kafka_default_offsets😅 1
Travis (YaaaDingus)
02/27/2026, 6:56 PMI'm surprised that wasn't a syntax error, though I'm assuming that these properties might just be an arbitrary map under the hood
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