stevenzwu commented on pull request #2109: URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/2109#issuecomment-762504937
@dixingxing0 can you describe the motivation of checkpointing the watermarks in Flink state? Ryan described our use of watermarks in snapshot metadata. They are used to indicate the data completeness on the ingestion path so that downstream batch consumer jobs can be triggered when data is complete for a window (like hourly). ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
