Github user StephanEwen commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6075 If it is not a problem that this can lead to poor compression when checkpoint intervals are short, we could think about merging this as a temporary solution until [FLINK-9749](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-9749) is fully developed. I would suggest to make the ORC and table dependencies optional, though, that not every user of the BucketingSink needs to have these dependencies.
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