Github user greghogan commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1778#issuecomment-205368211
Perhaps there should be two flags, PARALLELISM_DEFAULT = -1 to reset the
parallelism to the system default, and PARALLELISM_UNKNOWN = -2 which leaves
the parallelism unchanged.
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