Hi, I think that was just related to the DataSet API. If I'm not mistaken changing the parallelism should work after a "partitionCustom()".
Cheers, Aljoscha On Tue, 19 Jul 2016 at 19:25 Jaromir Vanek <vanek.jaro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Aljoscha Krettek-2 wrote > > Hi, > > it should be possible to set the parallelism on the actual downstream > > operation. The partitioning operation is just an intermediate. > > > > Cheers, > > Aljoscha > > Are you sure about that? The mentioned discussion > < > http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/Range-partitioning-tp10947p10953.html > > > about range partitioner says exactly opposite: > > > > A partitioning will only be valid to the point that you change the > > parallelism. > > > > In the modified program the data will be correctly partitioned (lets say > > into 8 partitions if the default parallelism is 8). > > After the partitioning, the 8 partitions have to be reduced to 3 > > partitions as defined by the map-partition > > operator with parallelism 3. This is done by randomly shuffling which > > destroys the range-partitioning. > > It says the the downstream operation will use "random shuffle" when > changing > parallelism. Is 'customPartition()' different case? > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DataStream-partitionCustom-define-parallelism-tp12597p12617.html > Sent from the Apache Flink Mailing List archive. mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. >