# Elasticsearch updateByQuery with wait\_for\_completion

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-updatebyquery-with-wait-for-completion/210323
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 3, 2019, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-updatebyquery-with-wait-for-completion/210323 "2019-12-03T10:12:16Z")
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### Author: ![surajdalvi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85f322/32.png) [@surajdalvi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/surajdalvi)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2019, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-updatebyquery-with-wait-for-completion/210323/1 "2019-12-03T10:12:16Z")

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I am using updateByQuery to update documents but I am getting **version conflicts error**. How I can handle this error.Can I use wait\_for\_completion option in elastic search to avoid version conflicts error? is any other solution to handle version conflicts error in updateByQyery?

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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: [December 31, 2019, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-updatebyquery-with-wait-for-completion/210323/2 "2019-12-31T10:12:25Z")

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