What is an out of order window? On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 3:09 PM Sam Rohde <sro...@google.com> wrote:
> Gotcha, I was just surprised by the precision loss. Thanks! > > On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 1:50 PM Robert Bradshaw <rober...@google.com> > wrote: > >> Yes, the inconsistency of timestamp granularity is something that >> hasn't yet been resolved (see previous messages on this list). As long >> as we round consistently, it won't result in out-of-order windows, but >> it may result in timestamp truncation and (for sub-millisecond small >> windows) even window identifiaction. >> >> On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 1:42 PM Sam Rohde <sro...@google.com> wrote: >> > >> > Hi All, >> > >> > I saw that in the Python SDK we encode WindowedValues and Timestamps as >> millis, whereas the TIME_GRANULARITY is defined as 1us. Why do we do this? >> Won't this cause problems using the FnApiRunner as windows might fire out >> of order or something else? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Sam >> >
