# Cannot use \[sort\] option in conjunction with \[rescore\]

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-use-sort-option-in-conjunction-with-rescore/115699>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 16, 2018, 11:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-use-sort-option-in-conjunction-with-rescore/115699 "2018-01-16T11:35:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![aslamy1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aslamy1/32/26607_2.png) [@aslamy1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aslamy1)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 11:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-use-sort-option-in-conjunction-with-rescore/115699/1 "2018-01-16T11:35:25Z")

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Hi !  
I updated Elasticsearch 5.6.0 to 6.1.1. Now I get this exception:  
"reason": {  
"type": "query\_phase\_execution\_exception",  
"reason": "Cannot use [sort] option in conjunction with [rescore]."  
}

In my query I use sort and rescore. This combination worked before in elasticsearch 5.6.0 .

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**Author:** ![Thomas\_Doman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thomas_doman/32/11409_2.png) [@Thomas\_Doman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Thomas_Doman)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 10:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-use-sort-option-in-conjunction-with-rescore/115699/2 "2018-01-16T22:39:26Z")

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I have this same issue and question as well. However, I'm assuming the answer will be that when a `sort` is specified, that `rescore` doesn't make any sense since by doing a sort we're telling ES to ignore any other sorting based on the score. Thus, a `rescore` would have to be ignored anyway. Still, I'd like to have someone in the know verify my assumption. Meanwhile, I'm assuming in my query building code that if I'm going to specify a sort, I should leave out the rescore functions.

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**Author:** ![aslamy1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aslamy1/32/26607_2.png) [@aslamy1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aslamy1)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 8:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-use-sort-option-in-conjunction-with-rescore/115699/3 "2018-01-17T08:07:49Z")

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Your assumption is right.

> <https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/28250>

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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:** [February 14, 2018, 8:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-use-sort-option-in-conjunction-with-rescore/115699/4 "2018-02-14T08:07:49Z")

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