Github user rmetzger commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2237
I stumbled across this and I found the limitation quite annoying, so if
there are no good reasons for the check, I agree to remove it.
Since @StephanEwen wrote this, it might be good if he could confirm.
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