Re: pipeline.auto-watermark-interval vs setAutoWatermarkInterval

Posted by Matthias on
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Hi Aeden,

sorry for the late reply. I looked through the code and verified that the JavaDoc is correct. Setting pipeline.auto-watermark-interval to 0 will disable the automatic watermark generation. I created FLINK-21931 [1] to cover this.

Thanks,
Matthias

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-21931

On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 9:53 PM Aeden Jameson <[hidden email]> wrote:

Correction: The first link was supposed to be,

1. pipeline.auto-watermark-interval
https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.12/deployment/config.html#pipeline-auto-watermark-interval

On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 7:46 PM Aeden Jameson <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> I'm hoping to have my confusion clarified regarding the settings,
>
> 1. pipeline.auto-watermark-interval
> https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-master/api/java/org/apache/flink/api/common/ExecutionConfig.html#setAutoWatermarkInterval-long-
>
> 2. setAutoWatermarkInterval
> https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-master/api/java/org/apache/flink/api/common/ExecutionConfig.html#setAutoWatermarkInterval-long-
>
> I noticed the default value of pipeline.auto-watermark-interval is 0
> and according to these docs,
> https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.12/dev/table/sql/create.html#watermark,
> it states, "If watermark interval is 0ms, the generated watermarks
> will be emitted per-record if it is not null and greater than the last
> emitted one." However in the documentation for
> setAutoWatermarkInterval the value 0 disables watermark emission.
>
> * Are they intended to be the same setting? If not how are they
> different? Is one for FlinkSql and the other DataStream API?
>
> --
> Thank you,
> Aeden