# Handle Large Message Returned from Query

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/handle-large-message-returned-from-query/191162>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 18, 2019, 8:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/handle-large-message-returned-from-query/191162 "2019-07-18T08:44:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![lonzodc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f08c70/32.png) [@lonzodc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lonzodc)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 8:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/handle-large-message-returned-from-query/191162/1 "2019-07-18T08:44:34Z")

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Hi,

Is there a recommended way to query many large messages? Right now, we can only divide our expected query result per number of records but not per size (in bytes). For example, we "chop" our queries using "size":500. 500 records may not necessarily mean that this batch is larger than a batch of 100 large records.

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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:** [August 15, 2019, 8:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/handle-large-message-returned-from-query/191162/2 "2019-08-15T08:44:38Z")

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Closed on August 15, 2019, 8:44am UTC

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