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Paul Lin commented on FLINK-15220:
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I'd prefer to offer both options, because a manual conversion from string-based
timestamp to epoch millis would be inconvenient for SQL users.
> Add startFromTimestamp in KafkaTableSource
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> Key: FLINK-15220
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-15220
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Connectors / Kafka
> Affects Versions: 1.10.0
> Reporter: Paul Lin
> Priority: Major
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> KafkaTableSource supports all startup modes in DataStream API except
> `startFromTimestamp`, but `startFromTimestamp` is a common and valid use case
> in Table/SQL API as well.
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