Role of Rowtime Field Task?

[Aeden Jameson]

In my job graph viewed through the Flink UI I see a task named,

rowtime field: (#11: event_time TIME ATTRIBUTE(ROWTIME))

that has an upstream Kafka source task. What exactly does the rowtime task do?

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Thank you,
Aeden

[Yuval Itzchakov]

https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-stable/dev/table/streaming/time_attributes.html#event-time

On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 8:43 AM Aeden Jameson <[hidden email]> wrote:

In my job graph viewed through the Flink UI I see a task named,

rowtime field: (#11: event_time TIME ATTRIBUTE(ROWTIME))

that has an upstream Kafka source task. What exactly does the rowtime task do?

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Thank you,
Aeden

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