Github user StefanRRichter commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4883#discussion_r151948416
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flink-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/api/common/ExecutionConfig.java ---
@@ -150,6 +150,9 @@
/** This flag defines if we use compression for the state snapshot data
or not. Default: false */
private boolean useSnapshotCompression = false;
+ /** Determines if a task fails or not if there is an error in writing
its checkpoint data. Default: true */
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After discussions with @aljoscha, we decided to keep this because it is the
current way that Flink forwards the configuration. We add some `@Internal` and
`@Deprecated` annotations to the methods in `ExecutionConfig` so that the user
will use the proper calls on `CheckpointingConfig` instead.
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