# Completion Suggester Deletion Issues

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/completion-suggester-deletion-issues/73021>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 27, 2017, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/completion-suggester-deletion-issues/73021 "2017-01-27T14:17:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![bendg25](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@bendg25](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bendg25)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/completion-suggester-deletion-issues/73021/1 "2017-01-27T14:17:30Z")

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Hi,

What is the latest with Completion Suggester and deletions?

I see there is this documentation on it:

You can call optimize with the `only_expunge_deletes=true` to only cater for deletes  
-or alternatively call a \<\> operation.

Is there a Java API call I can make to ensure things get reset / cleaned properly?

Thanks

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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 24, 2017, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/completion-suggester-deletion-issues/73021/2 "2017-02-24T14:17:33Z")

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