Github user aljoscha commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1988#issuecomment-220293946
Yeah, we were also wondering wether it would make sense to allow the state
itself to be repartitioned, i.e. union and then split into the new parallelism.
In this way we wouldn't read all state in every operator.
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