nielm commented on a change in pull request #11532: URL: https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/11532#discussion_r426929817
########## File path: sdks/java/io/google-cloud-platform/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/gcp/spanner/SpannerIO.java ########## @@ -1066,7 +1079,12 @@ public SpannerWriteResult expand(PCollection<MutationGroup> input) { spec.getBatchSizeBytes(), spec.getMaxNumMutations(), spec.getMaxNumRows(), - spec.getGroupingFactor(), + // Do not group on streaming unless explicitly set. + spec.getGroupingFactor() + .orElse( + input.isBounded() == IsBounded.BOUNDED Review comment: it's kinda both! If the source is unbounded (streaming) - and the groupingFactor has not been specified by the user, then default to no grouping. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org