Github user chiwanpark commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/905#issuecomment-120913343 Hi, @pp86 Thanks for your contribution. But I think that using `AutoSelector` is not the best approach to improve distinct transformation. In Flink, a `KeySelector` converts a `DataSet<O>` to `DataSet<Tuple2<K, O>>` and uses the first element of the tuple as key. For atomic types, `AutoSelector` creates `DataSet<Tuple2<V, V>>` which unnecessarily duplicated data. I recommend `Keys.ExpressionKeys` when the user call `distinct()` method on atomic data types. And It would be better to add the test cases for this changes.
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