Github user sachingoel0101 commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1083#issuecomment-138868165 I apologize. Like I said before, the way I've implemented this, it seemed pretty trivial. Foremost, I needed this for something else and decided to take a shot at it. Missed the finer details, going by your comments. You're right though. Back-tracking the execution graph will most certainly be a better solution. @StephanEwen , am I correct in assuming this functionality will be added after (or along with) Job Session management? [As for the memory issue though, if data is to be persisted across jobs, we'll always have to keep the memory segments allocated even after the job finishes. This is why I defined a separate owner, which can be later *garbage collected* through a cache freeing mechanism.] As far as merging it is considered, I wasn't sure myself from the beginning. I had actually written an email with a link to my branch for opinions, but ended up opening a PR instead of sending that. So no worries. I'm closing this.
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