Github user StefanRRichter commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5885#discussion_r184084995 --- Diff: flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/state/heap/AbstractHeapState.java --- @@ -42,33 +42,35 @@ /** Map containing the actual key/value pairs. */ protected final StateTable<K, N, SV> stateTable; - /** This holds the name of the state and can create an initial default value for the state. */ - protected final SD stateDesc; --- End diff -- I think with removing this, you can also remove SD from the generic type of this class, and transitively from the subclasses as well.
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