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Kenneth Knowles commented on BEAM-170:
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Yes, even key+start+end is not enough. Updating the description.
> Session windows should not be identified by their bounds
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> Key: BEAM-170
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-170
> Project: Beam
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Kenneth Knowles
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> Today, if two session windows have the same bounds, they are considered the
> same window. This is an accident. It is not intended that any session windows
> are considered equal except via the operation of merging them into the same
> session.
> A risk associated with this behavior is that two windows that happen to
> coincide will share per-window-and-key state rather than evolving separately
> and having their separate state reconciled by state merging logic. These code
> paths are not required to be coherent, and in practice they are not.
> In particular, if the trigger for a session window ever finishes, then
> subsequent data in a window with the same bounds will be dropped, whereas if
> it had differed by a millisecond it would have created a new session,
> ignoring the previously closed session.
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