# Elastic “from” cannot take effect after aggregation

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-from-cannot-take-effect-after-aggregation/165416>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 23, 2019, 1:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-from-cannot-take-effect-after-aggregation/165416 "2019-01-23T13:29:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![fuhaoliang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3e96dc/32.png) [@fuhaoliang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fuhaoliang)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 1:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-from-cannot-take-effect-after-aggregation/165416/1 "2019-01-23T13:29:34Z")

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POST /dw\_vehicle\_mileage3/\_search  
{  
"from": 10,  
"aggs": {  
"2": {  
"terms": {  
"field": "vehicleid",  
"size": 1,  
"order": {  
"1": "desc"  
}  
},  
"aggs": {  
"1": {  
"sum": {  
"field": "distance"  
}  
},  
"3": {  
"sum": {  
"field": "duration"  
}  
}  
}  
}  
},  
"size": 1,  
"\_source": {  
"excludes":   
},  
"stored\_fields": [  
"\*"  
],  
"script\_fields": {},  
"docvalue\_fields": [  
{  
"field": "begintimedate",  
"format": "date\_time"  
}  
],  
"query": {  
"bool": {  
"must": [  
{  
"match\_all": {}  
},  
{  
"range": {  
"datetimec": {  
"gte": 20180518,  
"lt": 20180519  
}  
}  
}  
],  
"filter": ,  
"should": ,  
"must\_not":   
}  
}  
}

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 2:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-from-cannot-take-effect-after-aggregation/165416/2 "2019-01-23T14:36:03Z")

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Not sure what your question is.  
From and size parameters don't have any influence on the aggs part.

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**Author:** ![fuhaoliang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3e96dc/32.png) [@fuhaoliang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fuhaoliang)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 2:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-from-cannot-take-effect-after-aggregation/165416/3 "2019-01-23T14:59:29Z")

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Hello, I want to paginate through from and size, but now I can only return the total size by setting size

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**Author:** ![fuhaoliang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3e96dc/32.png) [@fuhaoliang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fuhaoliang)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 3:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-from-cannot-take-effect-after-aggregation/165416/4 "2019-01-23T15:07:09Z")

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I want to do something like limit 1,3 for SQL  
Get the value starting at 3, but not now

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-from-cannot-take-effect-after-aggregation/165416/5 "2019-01-23T15:53:21Z")

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You probably need something like [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.5/search-aggregations-bucket-composite-aggregation.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.5/search-aggregations-bucket-composite-aggregation.html)

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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 20, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-from-cannot-take-effect-after-aggregation/165416/6 "2019-02-20T15:53:22Z")

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