Why Debezium creates Topics for all the tables, even when table.whitelist is specified

Question

I am using Debezium plugin for Kafka Connect to stream MySQL Database changes.

I have explicitly mentioned my whitelist table in the

connector.properties

table.whitelist=tripDriverMapping

database.tables=azuga.tripDriverMapping

Why does Debezium create topics for all the tables in the database? Is there any workaround to avoid creation of all these unnecessary topics as I'm going to consume from only one topic.

Answer 1

The correct configuration for the connector is:

database.whitelist=azuga
table.whitelist=azuga.tripDriverMapping

database.whitelist might be optional