How delete document works?

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I heard when we delete a document it remains on disks and next queries will filter deleted documents, is it true?

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Segments are immutables so yes technically they are still on the disk until the next merge.

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Yes its true, when you issue this command : "GET /_cat/indices?v " on sense , you will see the doc.deleted increases.

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So the search performance decreases? Until next merge?

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You should not really notice.

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See https://www.elastic.co/blog/lucenes-handling-of-deleted-documents for more details.

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