danny0405 commented on code in PR #6856:
URL: https://github.com/apache/hudi/pull/6856#discussion_r1095369349


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hudi-flink-datasource/hudi-flink/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/configuration/FlinkOptions.java:
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@@ -297,19 +299,22 @@ private FlinkOptions() {
       .key("read.streaming.skip_compaction")
       .booleanType()
       .defaultValue(false)// default read as batch
-      .withDescription("Whether to skip compaction instants for streaming 
read,\n"
-          + "there are two cases that this option can be used to avoid reading 
duplicates:\n"
-          + "1) you are definitely sure that the consumer reads faster than 
any compaction instants, "
-          + "usually with delta time compaction strategy that is long enough, 
for e.g, one week;\n"
+      .withDescription("Whether to skip compaction instants and avoid reading 
compacted base files for streaming read to improve read performance.\n"
+          + "There are two cases that this option can be used to avoid reading 
duplicates:\n"
+          + "1) you are definitely sure that the consumer reads [faster 
than/completes before] any compaction instants "
+          + "when " + HoodieCompactionConfig.PRESERVE_COMMIT_METADATA.key() + 
" is set to false.\n"
           + "2) changelog mode is enabled, this option is a solution to keep 
data integrity");
 
   // this option is experimental
   public static final ConfigOption<Boolean> READ_STREAMING_SKIP_CLUSTERING = 
ConfigOptions
           .key("read.streaming.skip_clustering")
           .booleanType()
           .defaultValue(false)
-          .withDescription("Whether to skip clustering instants for streaming 
read,\n"
-              + "to avoid reading duplicates");
+          .withDescription("Whether to skip clustering instants to avoid 
reading base files of clustering operations for streaming read "
+              + "to improve read performance.\n"
+              + "This option toggled to true to avoid duplicates when: \n"
+              + "1) you are definitely sure that the consumer reads [faster 
than/completes before] any clustering instants "

Review Comment:
   We actually filter the clustering instants by files not rows, so same with 
compaction, the ` HoodieCompactionConfig.PRESERVE_COMMIT_METADATA.key()` has no 
effect here.



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