Search_after without PIT

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In the documentation for 'search_after', it says that inconsistent results may be returned if a refresh occurs when not using a PIT. I have a few questions:

  1. Can duplicate results be returned?
  2. Will it return all the documents that were present before the refresh (excluding any documents that were deleted in the refresh)?
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Hey,

Both answers depend if they were part of the search_after argument. If yes, then you are paging beyond those documents, if not they could be.

Does that make sense?

--Alex

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Hey Alex,

I'm using '_doc' as the sort order, and I'm using the 'sort' value of the last hit in every search_after request. Will I eventually get all documents that were present when the first request was made, without duplicates, given that they weren't deleted in a refresh?

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