Github user wuchong commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4263
@rtudoran "SELECT x FROM stream ORDER BY *time FETCH 2" do not need
retraction. Because it is order by ascending time. The query will only emit the
first 2 rows and after that drop all rows. We need retraction if the query is
order by time desc.
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