techdocsmith commented on a change in pull request #10748:
URL: https://github.com/apache/druid/pull/10748#discussion_r570675734
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File path: docs/ingestion/native-batch.md
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@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ that range if there's some stray data with unexpected
timestamps.
|--------|-----------|-------|---------|
|type|The task type, this should always be `index_parallel`.|none|yes|
|inputFormat|[`inputFormat`](./data-formats.md#input-format) to specify how to
parse input data.|none|yes|
-|appendToExisting|Creates segments as additional shards of the latest version,
effectively appending to the segment set instead of replacing it. The current
limitation is that you can append to any datasources regardless of their
original partitioning scheme, but the appended segments should be partitioned
using the `dynamic` partitionsSpec.|false|no|
+|appendToExisting|Creates segments as additional shards of the latest version,
effectively appending to the segment set instead of replacing it. This means
that you can append new segments to any datasource regardless of its original
partitioning scheme. However, you must use the `dynamic` partitioning type for
the appended segments .|false|no|
Review comment:
@jihoonson PTAL. Clarified that the task will fail if you use another
partitioning type and why. Included the error text in case someone needs to
search on that. Thanks.
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