Hi Chesnay, Thanks for your quick reply. I have another question. Will the state, which is ignored, be transported to TMs from DFS? Or will it be detected by JM's checkpoint coordinator and only those states reuired by operators be transported to each TM?
Best, Tony Wei 2018-08-17 14:38 GMT+08:00 Chesnay Schepler <ches...@apache.org>: > The state won't exist in the snapshot. > > > On 17.08.2018 04:38, Tony Wei wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm confused about the description in documentation. [1] > > > - *Removing a stateful operator:* The state of the removed operator is > lost unless > another operator takes it over. When starting the upgraded > application, you have > to explicitly agree to discard the state. > > Does that mean if I take a full snapshot (e.g. savepoint) after restoring > by explicitly agreeing to > discard the state, then the state won't exist in that snapshot? Or does it > just mean ignore the > state but the state still exist forever, unless I explicitly purge that > state by using state operator? > > And could this behavior differ between different state backend (Memory, > FS, RocksDB) ? > > Many thanks, > Tony Wei > > [1] https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs- > master/ops/upgrading.html#application-topology > > >
