Github user StefanRRichter commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3531#discussion_r107873583 --- Diff: flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/state/heap/HeapKeyedStateBackend.java --- @@ -412,9 +421,15 @@ private void restorePartitionedState(Collection<KeyGroupsStateHandle> state) thr } } - for (Tuple2<Integer, Long> groupOffset : keyGroupsHandle.getGroupRangeOffsets()) { + for (Tuple2<Integer, Long> groupOffset : keyGroupsStateHandle.getGroupRangeOffsets()) { int keyGroupIndex = groupOffset.f0; long offset = groupOffset.f1; + + // Skip those key groups that don't belong to the backend. + if (!keyGroupRange.contains(keyGroupIndex)) { --- End diff -- I think this is no longer required, because we are now "cutting out" the right key-groups from each state handle in the `StateAssignmentOperation`, using the `KeyedStateHandle::getIntersection(...)` method. In fact, I think that receiving a key-group that is not in the backend's range could now be considered as an error. We could rewrite this as a precondition check, or an assert.
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