# 57744018578214912: the number that causes a IndexShardMissingException

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/57744018578214912-the-number-that-causes-a-indexshardmissingexception/5295>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 1, 2011, 12:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/57744018578214912-the-number-that-causes-a-indexshardmissingexception/5295 "2011-09-01T12:38:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jodok\_Batlogg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jodok_batlogg/32/2799_2.png) [@Jodok\_Batlogg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jodok_Batlogg)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 12:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/57744018578214912-the-number-that-causes-a-indexshardmissingexception/5295/1 "2011-09-01T12:38:41Z")

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hi,

whenever we index a document with the number 57744018578214912 a  
IndexShardMissingException is being raised.  
we can reproduce this on 0.17.6 on OSX (snow leopard, lion) and CentOS  
5.6

test.json:  
{"create":{"\_index":"test","\_type":"test","\_id":"57744018578214912"}}  
{}

curl -XPUT localhost:9200/\_bulk --data-binary @test.json

{"error":"IndexShardMissingException[[test][-3] missing]","status":  
500}

any idea what's causing that? and how to circumvent?

thanks

jodok

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**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/57744018578214912-the-number-that-causes-a-indexshardmissingexception/5295/2 "2011-09-01T15:12:56Z")

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:), opened an issue:  
[Using 57744018578214912 as an id can cause failure to route to the correct shard · Issue #1294 · elastic/elasticsearch · GitHub](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/1294).

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Jodok Batlogg [jodok@batlogg.com](mailto:jodok@batlogg.com) wrote:

> hi,
> 
> whenever we index a document with the number 57744018578214912 a  
> IndexShardMissingException is being raised.  
> we can reproduce this on 0.17.6 on OSX (snow leopard, lion) and CentOS  
> 5.6
> 
> test.json:  
> {"create":{"\_index":"test","\_type":"test","\_id":"57744018578214912"}}  
> {}
> 
> curl -XPUT localhost:9200/\_bulk --data-binary @test.json
> 
> {"error":"IndexShardMissingException[[test][-3] missing]","status":  
> 500}
> 
> any idea what's causing that? and how to circumvent?
> 
> thanks
> 
> jodok

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/57744018578214912-the-number-that-causes-a-indexshardmissingexception/5295/3 "2017-07-06T03:55:20Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 3:55am UTC