# Is it possible for an elasticsearch delete to fail quietly?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-for-an-elasticsearch-delete-to-fail-quietly/13080>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 5, 2013, 10:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-for-an-elasticsearch-delete-to-fail-quietly/13080 "2013-08-05T22:44:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![concept47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f6c823/32.png) [@concept47](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/concept47)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 10:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-for-an-elasticsearch-delete-to-fail-quietly/13080/1 "2013-08-05T22:44:20Z")

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Is it possible for an Elasticsearch delete call (Tire.index("xxx").remove  
for those using the ruby client) to return an error code that still leaves  
the item I'm trying to delete in the index?

ie: no exception is thrown but the document I thought was deleted is still  
hanging around?

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-for-an-elasticsearch-delete-to-fail-quietly/13080/2 "2017-07-06T02:22:45Z")

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