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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-6216:
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Github user fhueske commented on a diff in the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3646#discussion_r109034147
  
    --- Diff: 
flink-libraries/flink-table/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/table/plan/logical/operators.scala
 ---
    @@ -221,8 +221,8 @@ case class Aggregate(
       }
     
       override def validate(tableEnv: TableEnvironment): LogicalNode = {
    -    if (tableEnv.isInstanceOf[StreamTableEnvironment]) {
    -      failValidation(s"Aggregate on stream tables is currently not 
supported.")
    +    if (tableEnv.isInstanceOf[StreamTableEnvironment] && 
groupingExpressions == Nil) {
    +      failValidation(s"Aggregate without any of groupby or over is not 
supported.")
    --- End diff --
    
    This case should be easy to support as well with a `NullByteKeySelector` as 
explained below.


> DataStream unbounded groupby aggregate with early firing
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FLINK-6216
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-6216
>             Project: Flink
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Table API & SQL
>            Reporter: Shaoxuan Wang
>            Assignee: Shaoxuan Wang
>
> Groupby aggregate results in a replace table. For infinite groupby aggregate, 
> we need a mechanism to define when the data should be emitted (early-fired). 
> This task is aimed to implement the initial version of unbounded groupby 
> aggregate, where we update and emit aggregate value per each arrived record. 
> In the future, we will implement the mechanism and interface to let user 
> define the frequency/period of early-firing the unbounded groupby aggregation 
> results.
> The limit space of backend state is one of major obstacles for supporting 
> unbounded groupby aggregate in practical. Due to this reason, we suggest two 
> common (and very useful) use-cases of this unbounded groupby aggregate:
> 1. The range of grouping key is limit. In this case, a new arrival record 
> will either insert to state as new record or replace the existing record in 
> the backend state. The data in the backend state will not be evicted if the 
> resource is properly provisioned by the user, such that we can provision the 
> correctness on aggregation results.
> 2. When the grouping key is unlimited, we will not be able ensure the 100% 
> correctness of "unbounded groupby aggregate". In this case, we will reply on 
> the TTL mechanism of the RocksDB backend state to evicted old data such that 
> we can provision the correct results in a certain time range.



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