# Index.ttl.disable\_purge flag not working? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [June 12, 2012, 11:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-ttl-disable-purge-flag-not-working/8057 "2012-06-12T11:52:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stefan\_Pi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@Stefan\_Pi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Stefan_Pi)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 11:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-ttl-disable-purge-flag-not-working/8057/1 "2012-06-12T11:52:15Z")
Hi everybody, I'm using ES 0.19.4. I tried to disable the deletion process for documents of an existing index that was initially created with a TTL (The TTL deletion is working fine). I've tried to update the index using the index.ttl.disable\_purge flag as described here: [http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/admin-indices-update-settings.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/admin-indices-update-settings.html) but it seems not to work: curl -XPUT '://\_settings' -d '{"index" : {"index.ttl.disable\_purge" : true} }' This was written to the log file of the node after doing the above call: [WARN][cluster.metadata] [] [] ignoring non dynamic index level settings for open indices: [index.index.ttl.disable\_purge] I also tried the call with a slight flag name variation removing the "index" at the beginning of the flag: curl -XPUT '://\_settings' -d '{"index" : {"ttl.disable\_purge" : true} }' but also without success: [WARN][cluster.metadata] [] [] ignoring non dynamic index level settings for open indices: [index.ttl.disable\_purge] I understand that non-dynamic settings can not be changed when the index was already created but according to the documentaton (above link) this should be a dynamic setting. Am I doing something wrong? Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks, Stefan ---
**Author:** ![Benjamin\_Deveze](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/benjamin_deveze/32/1577_2.png) [@Benjamin\_Deveze](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Benjamin_Deveze)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 1:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-ttl-disable-purge-flag-not-working/8057/2 "2012-06-12T13:34:19Z")
You are right it is a bug, expect it to be fixed tonight. Thanks On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Stefan Pi [sp@media-metrics.de](mailto:sp@media-metrics.de) wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I'm using ES 0.19.4. I tried to disable the deletion process for documents > of an existing index that was initially created with a TTL (The TTL deletion > is working fine). I've tried to update the index using the > index.ttl.disable\_purge flag as described here: > [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/admin-indices-update-settings.html) > but it seems not to work: > > curl -XPUT '://\_settings' -d '{"index" : > {"index.ttl.disable\_purge" : true} }' > > This was written to the log file of the node after doing the above call: > > [WARN][cluster.metadata] [] [] ignoring non dynamic index > level settings for open indices: [index.index.ttl.disable\_purge] > > I also tried the call with a slight flag name variation removing the "index" > at the beginning of the flag: > > curl -XPUT '://\_settings' -d '{"index" : > {"ttl.disable\_purge" : true} }' > > but also without success: > > [WARN][cluster.metadata] [] [] ignoring non dynamic index > level settings for open indices: [index.ttl.disable\_purge] > > I understand that non-dynamic settings can not be changed when the index was > already created but according to the documentaton (above link) this should > be a dynamic setting. Am I doing something wrong? Any help would be much > appreciated! > > Thanks, > Stefan -- Benjamin DEVEZE ---
**Author:** ![Stefan\_Pi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@Stefan\_Pi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Stefan_Pi)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 2:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-ttl-disable-purge-flag-not-working/8057/3 "2012-06-12T14:21:08Z")
Great! Where will it be fixed? Do I have to download and build the master or will it be patched into 0.19.4? Thanks, Stefan ---
**Author:** ![Benjamin\_Deveze](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/benjamin_deveze/32/1577_2.png) [@Benjamin\_Deveze](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Benjamin_Deveze)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 9:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-ttl-disable-purge-flag-not-working/8057/4 "2012-06-12T21:56:52Z")
Ok it has been fixed in 0.19 branch and master. So you can use the master or wait for 0.19.5 I guess. On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Stefan Pi [sp@media-metrics.de](mailto:sp@media-metrics.de) wrote: > Great! Where will it be fixed? Do I have to download and build the master or > will it be patched into 0.19.4? > > Thanks, Stefan -- Benjamin DEVEZE ---
**Author:** ![Stefan\_Pi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@Stefan\_Pi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Stefan_Pi)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 10:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-ttl-disable-purge-flag-not-working/8057/5 "2012-06-13T10:25:19Z")
Thank you very much! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-ttl-disable-purge-flag-not-working/8057/6 "2017-07-06T03:24:39Z")