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It is not possible to delay partition revocation indefinitely. The deadline is when the partition is lost. Once the partition is lost, the delay request is denied.

To allow a program from continuing stopping to commit offsets for a lost partition, a new consumer method is introduced that gives the partitions that were lost in the previous poll. This method is used in step e. Note, ideally, this does not happen because the user configures the partition assigner such that a partition is declared lost only after the maximum processing time has passed (this is outside the scope of this KIP).

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