Github user kl0u commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4195#discussion_r124500395 --- Diff: flink-libraries/flink-cep/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/cep/operator/AbstractKeyedCEPPatternOperator.java --- @@ -270,10 +270,12 @@ private void updateLastSeenWatermark(long timestamp) { } private void updateNFA(NFA<IN> nfa) throws IOException { - if (nfa.isEmpty()) { - nfaOperatorState.clear(); - } else { - nfaOperatorState.update(nfa); + if (nfa.isNFAChanged()) { + if (nfa.isEmpty()) { + nfaOperatorState.clear(); + } else { + nfaOperatorState.update(nfa); --- End diff -- This is only true for the `RocksDB` state backend. If you are using the `Heap` state backend, you do not (de)serialize at every access but you keep the same object. So the flag should be re-set.
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