# Delete by query range

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-by-query-range/4930>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 22, 2011, 10:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-by-query-range/4930 "2011-07-22T22:15:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![erik\_seilnacht](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/erik_seilnacht/32/3139_2.png) [@erik\_seilnacht](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/erik_seilnacht)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 10:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-by-query-range/4930/1 "2011-07-22T22:15:31Z")

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I want to delete a set of document that fall within a timestamp range.

This delete fails:

curl -XDELETE '[http://search.server.com:9200/ion/\_query](http://search.server.com:9200/ion/_query)' -d ' { "range" : { "timestamp" : { "from" : "2011-07-22T07:00:45.012Z", "to" : null, "include\_lower" : true, "include\_upper": true } } } ';

However, this get succeeds in returning results:

curl -XGET [http://search.server.com:9200/ion/\_search?pretty=true](http://search.server.com:9200/ion/_search?pretty=true) -d ' { "query" : { "range" : { "timestamp" : { "from" : "2011-07-22T07:00:45.012Z", "to" : null } } } } '

What am I missing here?

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:** [July 6, 2017, 3:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-by-query-range/4930/2 "2017-07-06T03:59:44Z")

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