Github user fhueske commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5140#discussion_r159009795 --- Diff: flink-libraries/flink-table/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/table/runtime/join/TimeBoundedStreamJoin.scala --- @@ -62,15 +65,23 @@ abstract class TimeBoundedStreamInnerJoin( with Compiler[FlatJoinFunction[Row, Row, Row]] with Logging { - private var cRowWrapper: CRowWrappingCollector = _ + private val leftArity = leftType.getArity + private val rightArity = rightType.getArity + private val resultArity = leftArity + rightArity + + // two reusable padding results + private val leftNullPaddingResult = new Row(resultArity) --- End diff -- I think we can move the code to generate padded results into a util class that can be reused by other joins.
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