egalpin commented on code in PR #10234:
URL: https://github.com/apache/pinot/pull/10234#discussion_r1123512336


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pinot-spi/src/main/java/org/apache/pinot/spi/config/table/UpsertConfig.java:
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@@ -154,10 +136,26 @@ public void setDefaultPartialUpsertStrategy(Strategy 
defaultPartialUpsertStrateg
    * same primary key, the record with the larger value of the time column is 
picked as the
    * latest update.
    * However, there are cases when users need to use another column to 
determine the order.
-   * In such case, you can use option comparisonColumn to override the column 
used for comparison.
+   * In such case, you can use option comparisonColumn to override the column 
used for comparison. When using
+   * multiple comparison columns, typically in the case of partial upserts, it 
is expected that input documents will
+   * each only have a singular non-null comparisonColumn. Multiple non-null 
values in an input document _will_ result
+   * in undefined behaviour. Typically, one comparisonColumn is allocated per 
distinct producer application of data
+   * in the case where there are multiple producers sinking to the same table.
    */
+  public void setComparisonColumns(List<String> comparisonColumns) {
+    Preconditions.checkArgument(_comparisonColumns == null || 
!comparisonColumns.isEmpty(),
+        "Possible duplicated entries: comparisonColumn, comparisonColumns");
+    _comparisonColumns = comparisonColumns;
+  }
+
+  public void setComparisonColumn(List<String> comparisonColumns) {
+    Preconditions.checkArgument(comparisonColumns == null || 
!comparisonColumns.isEmpty(),
+        "Possible duplicated entries: comparisonColumn, comparisonColumns");
+    _comparisonColumns = comparisonColumns;
+  }
+

Review Comment:
   Removed.  I originally had this here to allow for using either 
`comparisonColumn` or `comparisonColumns` interchangeably, but that's probably 
less clear than enforcing String with one, and List<String> for the other.



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