I use scrolling to page through large sets of documents and noticed recently I hadn't set search_type=scan when I don't need sorting. Once I enabled search_type=scan I noticed two inconsistencies compared against the default search_type: search_type=scan doesn't return any results when starting…

_search/scroll?search_type=scan bugs/inconsistencies

Topic		Replies	Views
SearchType SCAN and Size Elasticsearch	2	345	July 6, 2017
Scrolling / sorting Elasticsearch	6	3318	July 6, 2017
Just Pushed: Search Scan Type for effecient large hit set scanning Elasticsearch	14	448	July 6, 2017
Is ES capable of doing pagination? Elasticsearch	16	12709	July 6, 2017
Reindex using scroll api Elasticsearch	5	2210	July 5, 2017

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