Github user StefanRRichter commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4798#discussion_r146161007
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flink-contrib/flink-statebackend-rocksdb/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/contrib/streaming/state/RocksDBKeyedStateBackend.java
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@@ -313,10 +317,16 @@ public void dispose() {
IOUtils.closeQuietly(dbOptions);
IOUtils.closeQuietly(columnOptions);
+ cleanInstanceBasePath();
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This again would not need the existence check that runs inside the method,
because at this point the directory should always exist.
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