My assumption is that this was a sanity check that actually just stuck in the code.
It can probably be removed. PS: Moving this to the d...@flink.apache.org list... On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 11:05 AM, 刘彪 <mmyy1...@gmail.com> wrote: > In AbstractRocksDBState.writeKeyAndNamespace(): > > protected void writeKeyAndNamespace(DataOutputView out) throws IOException > { > backend.keySerializer().serialize(backend.currentKey(), out); > out.writeByte(42); > namespaceSerializer.serialize(currentNamespace, out); > } > > Why write a byte 42 between key and namespace? The keySerializer and > namespaceSerializer know their lengths. It seems we don't need this byte. > > Could anybody tell me what it is for? Is there any situation that we must > have this separator? >