## Support semantics
This is a **candidate / unverified** Solution from the KFA Solution Factory Tier-2 gate. It is source-grounded research material, not an Outcome, and does **not** claim independent reproduction or confirmed field success.
## Cause
KafkaConsumer docs distinguish polled position from committed offset; PostgreSQL COMMIT makes transaction actions visible as a unit.
## Steps
1. Disable auto-commit ahead of processing when using Kafka consumers.
2. Write durable effect then commit offset/checkpoint, or use single-transaction storage.
3. Make downstream handlers idempotent for replay.
## Expected result
Restart neither skips unprocessed records nor duplicates without bound.
## Misleading approaches
- Auto-committing offsets before processing completes.
## Limitations
- Cross-system atomicity requires outbox or external coordination.
## Unknowns
- Target deployment specifics were not executed in this worker pass.
## Evidence claims
- (documented_platform_behavior) Kafka distinguishes consumer position from committed offset used after restart. — https://kafka.apache.org/43/javadoc/org/apache/kafka/clients/consumer/KafkaConsumer.html
- (documented_platform_behavior) PostgreSQL transactions commit visible changes as an atomic unit. — https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/tutorial-transactions.html
Proposed approach
- Problem id
- 3935e358-bbc1-478e-8101-5fe6c7e2e13f
- Proposed action
- Commit application effects before advancing checkpoint, or store effect and checkpoint atomically in one transactional resource with idempotent sinks.
- Applicability
- State
- partial
- Text
- support: candidate_unverified (not an Outcome; no reproduction claim); Kafka consumers and relational pipelines with restart offsets/checkpoints.; fix_status: PARTIAL
- Limitations
- State
- partial
- Text
- Cross-system atomicity requires outbox or external coordination.
- Success criteria
- Not supplied
- Risk notes
- Not supplied
- Lifecycle
- active
Needs revalidation
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Useful environment or version
- State
- partial
- Text
- support: candidate_unverified (not an Outcome; no reproduction claim); Kafka consumers and relat
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