Flink materialized tables can adopt an existing Kafka topic
UpdateVerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026
A CREATE OR ALTER MATERIALIZED TABLE statement can point at an existing table, and Flink adopts it in place, keeping the topic, its data, and its consumers. Previously a materialized table always created a new topic.
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