Github user StephanEwen commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/906#issuecomment-121547033 As far as I understand, the current mechanism ("operator time") is still possible. Then it would be okay. Concerning always adding timestamps to stream records: That may be necessary anyways, if we want to keep track of latency - for monitoring.
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