Github user StephanEwen commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/658#issuecomment-101185563
That is a good point. It is a bit tricky, though, since the skip method
does not guarantee efficient skipping. It also reserves the right to skip less
(and return the number of bytes skipped, iirc).
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