I have been facing issues related to es response order which is getting reshuffled even though I am not querying on the fields (I have made them non-indexed so as to ignore them in scoring) and performing dfs_query_then_fetch query. Moreover, those non-indexed fields are updated in every hit to elas…

I am not sure I understand. Can you please provide an example?

Let's say there are 10 documents out of which 7 are indexed(by default) and remaining 3 are non-indexed (index: false), so now I am updating values to those non-indexed fields in each and every hit to es. At the same time, querying is happening over indexed fields as we can't query over non-indexed …

What is the score for the documents returned? Are you applying any sorting to the query?

I am not applying any sorting to the query. only filters are being used.

If all the documents have the same score as only filters are used and no sorting is applied I do not think ordering is guaranteed.

Just to add, let's say there are 50 responses, out of which 20 have same scores, within that 20 responses, the orders are getting changed. Even if the filters are used, all the docs have same scores, that way order is inconsistent. @Sriram8894 FYI

I would recommend you specify a sort order if you want/need consistency, e.g. score first and _doc second as a tie-breaker.

I tried by applying sort order as well, still I am facing the same inconsistent behaviour.

What sort order did you apply? Maybe try score and _id?

It'd help if you could provide code examples of what you want to do, what you are running, and what you are seeing.

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