Github user mxm commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/858#issuecomment-123755792 It should just add more nodes to the ExecutionGraph. Existing ones should not be modified. For batch, I think the assumption is that it needs to be finished. For streaming, I could also picture attaching nodes at runtime but this has to be carefully implemented..
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