Hello, I need help making one of our queries consistent. We currently make a query that handles a big amount of documents. The problem I'm having is with an index that have documents that literally have the same properties and values except for its name and a custom field representing and id. The na…

The thing is that this query happens in a couple of seconds and the index doesn't receive any updates/deletes or indexing. The only way to make the search_after stable is by using Point in Time API?

[PLEASE_HELP] Consistent searching with search_after

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spinscale (Alexander Reelsen) January 25, 2022, 3:53pm 2

the search_after mechanism is not stable, if you keep indexing/updating/deleting documents.

if you need stable searches take a look at the Point in Time API .

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[PLEASE_HELP] Consistent searching with search_after

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