Hi everyone, A commonly used functionality offered by Flink is the "cancel-with-savepoint" operation. When applied to the current exactly-once sinks, the current implementation of the feature can be problematic, as it does not guarantee that side-effects will be committed by Flink to the 3rd party storage system.
This discussion targets fixing this issue and proposes the addition of two termination modes, namely: 1) SUSPEND, for temporarily stopping the job, e.g. for Flink version upgrading in your cluster 2) TERMINATE, for terminal shut down which ends the stream and sends MAX_WATERMARK time, and flushes any state associated with (event time) timers A google doc with the FLIP proposal can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EZf6pJMvqh_HeBCaUOnhLUr9JmkhfPgn6Mre_z6tgp8/edit?usp=sharing And the page for the FLIP is here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=103090212 The implementation sketch is far from complete, but it is worth having a discussion on the semantics as soon as possible. The implementation section is going to be updated soon. Looking forward to the discussion, Kostas -- Kostas Kloudas | Software Engineer <https://www.ververica.com/> Follow us @VervericaData -- Join Flink Forward <https://flink-forward.org/> - The Apache Flink Conference Stream Processing | Event Driven | Real Time -- Data Artisans GmbH | Invalidenstrasse 115, 10115 Berlin, Germany -- Data Artisans GmbH Registered at Amtsgericht Charlottenburg: HRB 158244 B Managing Directors: Dr. Kostas Tzoumas, Dr. Stephan Ewen