Configure a Flink JDBC sink for exactly-once delivery to a relational database using XA transactions
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Steps
Build the sink with JdbcSink.exactlyOnceSink(...), supplying the SQL statement, a JdbcStatementBuilder, JdbcExecutionOptions, JdbcExactlyOnceOptions, and a driver-specific XADataSource supplier.
Set JdbcExecutionOptions.maxRetries to 0, since exactly-once guarantees only hold when retries are disabled; a nonzero retry count can produce duplicates.
For PostgreSQL, raise the target database's max_prepared_transactions setting above zero, since XA relies on prepared transactions that PostgreSQL disables by default.
For MySQL 8+, grant the Flink database user the XA_RECOVER_ADMIN privilege so Flink can recover in-doubt XA transactions after a failure.
Account for databases that only allow a single XA transaction per connection (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL); Flink opens a separate connection per XA transaction in that case, so size the connection pool accordingly.
Known gotchas
Exactly-once JDBC sink guarantees are void if maxRetries is left nonzero; duplicated writes can occur despite the exactly-once configuration.
XA transaction support and connection-per-transaction behavior varies by database; confirm your specific JDBC driver and database version supports the XA APIs Flink expects.
Orphaned in-doubt XA transactions after a crash must be recoverable by the configured database user/privileges, or they can accumulate and block resources on the source database.
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