apache / apache/pulsar

Reset partitions of a topic

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Description

### Search before asking

- [X] I searched in the [issues](https://github.com/apache/pulsar/issues) and found nothing similar.

### Motivation

There is a API for increase partitions for a topic https://pulsar.apache.org/admin-rest-api/?version=3.3.0#operation/PersistentTopics_updatePartitionedTopic
but it only accept a greater number (as the doc says, it should be **incremental**).

I'm wondering if it's possible to decrease a existing partitioned topic, otherwise, I have to copy my topic to a new one and delete it manually.

### Solution

_No response_

### Alternatives

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### Anything else?

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### Are you willing to submit a PR?

- [X] I'm willing to submit a PR!

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start with the admin REST API's updatePartitionedTopic operation linked in the issue and inspect how it enforces increasing the partition count. Determine the constraints and design implications of decreasing partitions; done requires a maintainer-approved approach for the API behavior and its documentation or implementation scope.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
java
Domain
api, distributed-systems
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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