Manager document ID in multi process and Elasticsearch

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Hi all. I am a newbie in Elasticsearch. I am using Elasticsearch for my system and I want to self define document ids. Each document, I generate a ID like [yearmonthday_sequence] (example 20170109_0001) and increase it for new document.
But my system is mutil process so I confused in manage ID. My approach is search all document in current day and get maximun id and increase when genarate document id but I think it's not reasonable. Do you any solution for manage id for my problem?
Thank you very much.

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You can run an _update on a "counter" document and get back the document to get the value of the counter.

Like https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/partial-updates.html#_updating_a_document_that_may_not_yet_exist

But TBH I'm not a big fan of this. Might work if the number of documents is reasonable but if you are thinking of indexing lot of docs per second this won't work well.

My 2 cents

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