The ALTER PIPELINE clause changes an existing pipeline’s configuration.

Syntax

ALTER PIPELINE pipeline_name
  [SET
    [OFFSETS
      [EARLIEST | LATEST | json_source_partition_offset]
    ]
    [TRANSFORM ('uri', ['executable', 'arguments [...]'])]
    [BATCH_INTERVAL milliseconds]
    [MAX_PARTITIONS_PER_BATCH max_peratitions_per_batch]
  ]
  [RELOAD TRANSFORM]
  [FIELDS | COLUMNS]
    [TERMINATED BY 'string'
      [[OPTIONALLY] ENCLOSED BY 'char']
      [ESCAPED BY 'char']
    ]

Each of the clauses in a ALTER PIPELINE statement are described below.

ALTER PIPELINE SET

You can set a pipeline’s offsets, transform, or batch interval by using the SET clause.

ALTER PIPELINE pipeline_name
  [SET
    [OFFSETS
      [EARLIEST | LATEST | json_source_partition_offset]
    ]
    [TRANSFORM]
    [BATCH_INTERVAL milliseconds]
  ]   

ALTER PIPELINE SET OFFSETS

A pipeline’s current starting offset can be altered by using the SET OFFSETS clause. When a new offset is set, the pipeline will begin extracting data from the specified offset, regardless of any previous offsets that have or have not been extracted. There are three offset options:

SET OFFSETS EARLIEST: Configures the pipeline to start reading from the earliest (or oldest) available offset in the data source.

memsql> ALTER PIPELINE mypipeline SET OFFSETS EARLIEST;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

SET OFFSETS LATEST: Configures the pipeline to start reading from the latest (or newest) available offset in the data source.

memsql> ALTER PIPELINE mypipeline SET OFFSETS LATEST;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

SET OFFSETS '{"<source-partition>": <partition-offset>}': Configures the pipeline to start reading from specific data source partitions and offsets. When you manually specify which source partition and offset to start extracting from, there are a few important things to consider:

• If the data source has more partitions than are specified in the JSON string, only data from the specified offsets will be extracted. No new offsets from the other partitions will be extracted.
• If the specified source partition doesn’t exist, no data will be extracted and no errors will appear. However, the partition will be present in a row of the information_schema.PIPELINES_CURSORS table with its EARLIEST_OFFSET and LATEST_OFFSETcolumns set to NULL.

memsql> ALTER PIPELINE mypipeline SET OFFSETS '{"0":100}, {"1":100}';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

In the example above, the data source has two partitions with IDs of 0 and 1, and the pipeline will start reading from offset 100 in both partitions.

ALTER PIPELINE DROP FILE

memsql> ALTER PIPELINE mypipeline DROP FILE 'my_file';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)
memsql> ALTER PIPELINE mypipeline DROP PARTITION '2';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

ALTER PIPELINE ... DROP FILE will cause the pipeline to forget all metadata associated with a given file. ALTER PIPLEINE ... DROP PARTITION causes the pipeline to forget all metadata associated with a given kafka partition.

memsql> ALTER PIPELINE mypipeline DROP ORPHAN FILES
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

ALTER PIPELINE ... DROP ORPHAN FILES will cause the pipeline to forget all metadata associated with all Unloaded files. The pipeline will not try to load these files again unless they reappear in the source. This command is useful to inform a pipeline that some files in the source have been removed, and it should not try to load them. This command will not forget metadata associated with already Loaded or Skipped files; MemSQL will not try to reload such files.

ALTER PIPELINE SET TRANSFORM

You can configure an existing pipeline to use a transform by using the SET TRANSFORM clause. The syntax for applying a transform to a pipeline is identical to the WITH TRANSFORM syntax that is used when creating a new pipeline.

memsql> ALTER PIPELINE mypipeline SET TRANSFORM('http://memsql.com/my-transform-tarball.tar.gz', 'my-executable.py', '-arg1 -arg1');
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

• SET TRANSFORM ('uri', ['executable', 'arguments [...]']): Each of the transform’s parameters are described below:
• uri: The transform’s URI is the location from where the executable program can be downloaded, which is specified as either an http:// or file:// endpoint. If the URI points to a tarball with a .tar.gz or .tgz extension, its contents will be automatically extracted. Additionally, the executable parameter must be specified if a the uri is a tarball. If the URI specifies an executable file itself, the executable and arguments parameters are optional.
• executable: The filename of the transform executable to run. This parameter is required if a tarball was specified as the endpoint for the transform’s url. If the url itself specifies an executable, this parameter is optional.
• arguments: A series of arguments that are passed to the transform executable at runtime.

ALTER PIPELINE RELOAD TRANSFORM

This command will reload the transform from the uri specified when the pipeline was created. This will redeploy the latest transform code hosted at that uri.

memsql> ALTER PIPELINE mypipeline RELOAD TRANSFORM;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

ALTER PIPELINE SET BATCH_INTERVAL

You can alter the batch interval for an existing pipeline by using the SET BATCH_INTERVAL clause. A batch interval is the time duration between the end of a batch operation and the start of the next one. The syntax for setting a batch interval is identical to the BATCH_INTERVAL syntax that is used when creating a new pipeline.

memsql> ALTER PIPELINE mypipeline SET BATCH_INTERVAL 0;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

ALTER PIPELINE SET MAX_PARTITIONS_PER_BATCH

You can alter the maximum number of partitions per batch for an existing pipeline by using the SET MAX_PARTITIONS_PER_BATCH clause. This can be useful for limiting parallelism on large clusters, or to reduce throttling by data sources.

memsql> ALTER PIPELINE mypipeline SET MAX_PARTITIONS_PER_BATCH 10;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

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