Confused result sets: total hit is equal to 1 but but "hits" is an empty JSON list

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Hi,

I just upgraded my ES to 0.17.8 from 0.17.7 successfully. However, I got an
issue with the response

root@es1:~$
root@es1:~$ curl -XGET http://localhost:9200/atest/exp/_search?pretty=true
-d'{

"fields":[
"account_id"
],
"query":{
"query_string":{
"use_dis_max":true,
"fields":[
"names"
],
"query":"phuongthao.le"
}
},
"from":30,
"size":20
}'
curl: /opt/lib/libcurl.so.4: no version information available (required by
curl)
{
"took" : 24,
"timed_out" : false,
"_shards" : {
"total" : 5,
"successful" : 5,
"failed" : 0
},
"hits" : {
"total" : 1,
"max_score" : 7.20773,
"hits" :
}
}root@es1:~$

The response gets me confused. It says there is a match (total = 1,
max_score: 7.2) but there is no document (hits = )

I have tried another keyword that I know should not have any match

root@es1:~$ curl -XGET http://localhost:9200/atest/exp/_search?pretty=true
-d'{

"fields":[
"account_id"
],
"query":{
"query_string":{
"use_dis_max":true,
"fields":[
"names"
],
"query":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
}
},
"from":30,
"size":20
}'
curl: /opt/lib/libcurl.so.4: no version information available (required by
curl)
{
"took" : 2,
"timed_out" : false,
"_shards" : {
"total" : 5,
"successful" : 5,
"failed" : 0
},
"hits" : {
"total" : 0,
"max_score" : null,
"hits" :
}
}root@es1:~$

The response is OK now. There is no match so total = 0, max_score is null
and hits =

So I think that the first query response can be a bug.

There is no exception logged in Elasticsearch log file

[2011-10-07 07:13:33,524][INFO ][node ] [Big Man]
{elasticsearch/0.17.8}[16423]: initializing ...
[2011-10-07 07:13:33,530][INFO ][plugins ] [Big Man] loaded
, sites
[2011-10-07 07:13:37,993][INFO ][node ] [Big Man]
{elasticsearch/0.17.8}[16423]: initialized
[2011-10-07 07:13:37,993][INFO ][node ] [Big Man]
{elasticsearch/0.17.8}[16423]: starting ...
[2011-10-07 07:13:38,289][INFO ][transport ] [Big Man]
bound_address {inet[/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:9300]}, publish_address
{inet[/10.128.66.251:9300]}
[2011-10-07 07:13:41,451][INFO ][cluster.service ] [Big Man]
new_master [Big Man][YKOF0nVzTR-9RXt89Kp01w][inet[/10.128.66.251:9300]],
reason: zen-disco-join (elected_as_master)
[2011-10-07 07:13:41,598][INFO ][discovery ] [Big Man]
es1/YKOF0nVzTR-9RXt89Kp01w
[2011-10-07 07:13:42,132][INFO ][http ] [Big Man]
bound_address {inet[/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:9200]}, publish_address
{inet[/10.128.66.251:9200]}
[2011-10-07 07:13:42,132][INFO ][node ] [Big Man]
{elasticsearch/0.17.8}[16423]: started
[2011-10-07 07:13:44,313][INFO ][gateway ] [Big Man]
recovered [16] indices into cluster_state

Regards,

Dinh

2

Just ignore my email. I misunderstand the meaning of "total" field

Thanks