Is changes number of replicas and mapping in index blocks parallel queries to index?

lotera87 · June 23, 2021, 8:32am

Hi,

I am want to change number of replicas in index. Is this operation blocks to retrieve documents from this index to time number of replicas changed?

And same question. If i add field to mapping in index is this operation blocks to retrieve documents?

warkolm · June 23, 2021, 8:45am

No, they should not be blocking.

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