Hi, As far as I know, the community currently has no plans to support custom triggers on Flink SQL,
because it is difficult to describe triggers using SQL. You can create a jira[1] for it and restart the discussion in dev maillist. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/FLINK -- Best！ Xuyang At 2024-07-17 17:22:01, "liu ze" <liuze0...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, Currently, Flink's windows are based on time (or a fixed number of elements). I want to trigger window computation based on specific events (marked within the data). In the DataStream API, this can be achieved using GlobalWindow and custom triggers, but how can it be done in Flink SQL? Additionally, it is necessary to ensure that the upstream and downstream windows process the same batch of data. This is a common requirement. For example, we need to calculate some metrics for a user based on their user ID. This data does not have a time attribute field, so we can only determine that the data is complete and trigger window computation through some specially marked data. The computed results are then passed to the downstream via Kafka. The downstream might perform more coarse-grained calculations for this user. It is essential to ensure that the data is complete and exactly matches the data in the upstream window. Can Flink SQL achieve this functionality?
