Github user aljoscha commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1155#issuecomment-141952418
It is for the "infinite state" aggregations.
I think this will fail if the types (input/output and key type) are not
serializable. For those to work a TypeSerializer must be used to but a
serialized value into the state map.
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