Github user kl0u commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3616#discussion_r108944527 --- Diff: flink-streaming-java/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/api/transformations/StreamTransformation.java --- @@ -221,10 +232,19 @@ public int getMaxParallelism() { * @param maxParallelism Maximum parallelism for this stream transformation. */ public void setMaxParallelism(int maxParallelism) { - Preconditions.checkArgument(maxParallelism > 0 - && maxParallelism <= StreamGraphGenerator.UPPER_BOUND_MAX_PARALLELISM, - "Maximum parallelism must be between 1 and " + StreamGraphGenerator.UPPER_BOUND_MAX_PARALLELISM - + ". Found: " + maxParallelism); + checkArgument( + parallelism != ExecutionConfig.PARALLELISM_DEFAULT, + "A maximum parallelism can only be specified with an explicitly specified " + + "parallelism."); --- End diff -- This means that we always have to specify a `parallelism` before being able to specify a `maxParallelism`. This seems a bit counter-intuitive to me, as the only constraint seems to be that `parallelism <= maxParalleliem`.
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