# Safely deleting indices

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/safely-deleting-indices/162525>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 31, 2018, 4:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/safely-deleting-indices/162525 "2018-12-31T16:01:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![DavidTurner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/davidturner/32/22453_2.png) [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 4:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/safely-deleting-indices/162525/2 "2018-12-31T16:44:54Z")

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> [@amitavmohanty01](#):
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> Is the DELETE call not a distributed commit?

It is, but assuming [this is the same cluster as before](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/primary-shard-not-available/161687/6) it has so many shards that cluster state publishing might be happening rather slowly.

> [@amitavmohanty01](#):
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> Will these exceptions stop after some attempts?

They should do, yes.

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