# Same query retrieves different results
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/same-query-retrieves-different-results/121271
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 23, 2018, 6:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/same-query-retrieves-different-results/121271 "2018-02-23T18:55:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@kunde](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kunde)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2018, 6:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/same-query-retrieves-different-results/121271/1 "2018-02-23T18:55:31Z")
I got some strange behavior that I don't know if I need to do some configuration or is elasticsearch nature.
If I use a query multiple times, sometimes I get different results.
For example, on the first run I could get [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ,7, 8, 9, 10]
then I may get [10, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
or [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11]
This inconsistency in results for the same query is causing me problems.
Is there a way to avoid this?
I use localhost:9200/myIndex/myType/\_search?search\_type=dfs\_query\_then\_fetch
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/same-query-retrieves-different-results/121271/2 "2018-02-23T19:29:18Z")
What kind of problem this is causing ?
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### Author:  [@kunde](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kunde)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2018, 10:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/same-query-retrieves-different-results/121271/3 "2018-02-23T22:59:00Z")
I need consistency in the results. I need go through the entire index to generate a file with the results (like a catalog). Getting different results causes that sometimes I get repeated results or sometimes some documents are omitted.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2018, 11:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/same-query-retrieves-different-results/121271/4 "2018-02-23T23:11:41Z")
If you want to extract data, use scroll API.
But I'm not sure I understood the use case.
Could you share two different resultset and also the query you are running?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2018, 11:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/same-query-retrieves-different-results/121271/5 "2018-03-23T23:12:27Z")
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