Github user tillrohrmann commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/949#issuecomment-134082960
IMHO, this makes understanding the semantics of the sampling operator only
more complicated because it behaves differently depending on the job graph
structure. I would rather document this limitation more prominently.
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