# Documents from couchdb river aren't deleted

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/documents-from-couchdb-river-arent-deleted/7058>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 19, 2012, 3:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/documents-from-couchdb-river-arent-deleted/7058 "2012-03-19T15:55:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![botay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c4cdca/32.png) [@botay](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/botay)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 3:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/documents-from-couchdb-river-arent-deleted/7058/1 "2012-03-19T15:55:35Z")

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Hello,

After deleting a document in couchdb I got the following messages in elastic search logfile. It looks like the document is deleted but it remains in the index.

Has anybody an idea?

tom

[2012-03-19 16:41:44,352][TRACE][river.couchdb] [Lorvex] [couchdb][cm8\_river] [couchdb] {"seq":271963,"id":"2329616,de\_DE","changes":[{"rev":"4-ae8660826e9706e0965039eb7365fbed"}],"deleted":true,"doc":{"\_id":"2329616,de\_DE","\_rev":"4-ae8660826e9706e0965039eb7365fbed","\_deleted":true}}  
[2012-03-19 16:41:44,353][TRACE][river.couchdb] [Lorvex] [couchdb][cm8\_river] processing [delete]: [cm8]/[cm1]/[2329616,de\_DE]  
[2012-03-19 16:41:45,353][TRACE][river.couchdb] [Lorvex] [couchdb][cm8\_river] processing [\_seq]: [\_river]/[cm8\_river]/[\_seq], last\_seq [271963]  
[2012-03-19 16:41:45,354][TRACE][index.shard.service] [Lorvex] [\_river][0] index [Document\<stored,binary,omitNorms,indexOptions=DOCS\_ONLY\<\_source:[B@1262f7c\> indexed,omitNorms,indexOptions=DOCS\_ONLY\<\_type:cm8\_river\> stored,indexed,tokenized,omitNorms\<\_uid:\> indexed,tokenized\<couchdb.last\_seq:271963\> indexed,tokenized\<\_all:\>\>]  
[2012-03-19 16:41:45,356][TRACE][index.shard.service] [Lorvex] [cm8][0] delete [cm1#2329616,de\_DE]  
[2012-03-19 16:41:46,109][TRACE][index.shard.service] [Lorvex] [cm8][0] refresh with waitForOperations[false]

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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, 3:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/documents-from-couchdb-river-arent-deleted/7058/2 "2017-07-06T03:35:34Z")

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