# Search API doesn't return consistent results. First query returns 2 hits, second in 3 hits, third 2 hits and so on
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-api-doesnt-return-consistent-results-first-query-returns-2-hits-second-in-3-hits-third-2-hits-and-so-on/10540
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 29, 2013, 3:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-api-doesnt-return-consistent-results-first-query-returns-2-hits-second-in-3-hits-third-2-hits-and-so-on/10540 "2013-01-29T15:58:31Z")
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### Author:  [@Olav\_Gronas\_Gjerde](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Olav_Gronas_Gjerde)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2013, 3:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-api-doesnt-return-consistent-results-first-query-returns-2-hits-second-in-3-hits-third-2-hits-and-so-on/10540/1 "2013-01-29T15:58:31Z")
Example
curl -XGET '[http://localhost:9200/testolav/node/\_search](http://localhost:9200/testolav/node/_search)' -d'
{
"from": 0,
"size": 0,
"fields": [],
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": [
{
"term": {
"parent": "%2Ftestolav"
}
}
]
}
}
}'
{"took":2,"timed\_out":false,"\_shards":{"total":2,"successful":2,"failed":0},"hits":{"total":2,"max\_score":3.014903,"hits":[]}}
\_index
\_type
\_id
\_score
size
type
name
parent
date\_modified
testolav
node
%2Ftestolav%2F%E2%80%93
3.014903
0 bytes
file
–
%2Ftestolav
2013-01-29 16:07
testolav
node
%2Ftestolav%2Ftruls
3.014903
FOLDER
truls
%2Ftestolav
2013-01-29 16:10
Second query:
curl -XGET '[http://localhost:9200/testolav/node/\_search](http://localhost:9200/testolav/node/_search)' -d'
{
"from": 0,
"size": 0,
"fields": [],
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": [
{
"term": {
"parent": "%2Ftestolav"
}
}
]
}
}
}'
{"took":3,"timed\_out":false,"\_shards":{"total":2,"successful":2,"failed":0},"hits":{"total":3,"max\_score":3.74084,"hits":[]}}
\_index
\_type
\_id
\_score
size
type
name
parent
date\_modified
testolav
node
%2Ftestolav%2FMusic
3.74084
folder
Music
%2Ftestolav
2013-01-21 13:50
testolav
node
%2Ftestolav%2F%E2%80%93
3.014903
0 bytes
file
–
%2Ftestolav
2013-01-29 16:07
testolav
node
%2Ftestolav%2Ftruls
3.014903
FOLDER
truls
%2Ftestolav
2013-01-29 16:10
Is this supposed to happen? Is there a way to return a consistent search
result?
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### Author:  [@Olav\_Gronas\_Gjerde](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Olav_Gronas_Gjerde)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2013, 4:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-api-doesnt-return-consistent-results-first-query-returns-2-hits-second-in-3-hits-third-2-hits-and-so-on/10540/2 "2013-01-29T16:21:51Z")
I changed the index mapping on the name property from
'name': { 'type': 'string', 'index': 'analyzed' } to 'name': { 'type':
'string', 'index': 'not\_analyzed' }
And now the returned documents are always consistent.
But isn't it better to have the name field analyzed if you want it to be
searchable?
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### Author:  [@Clinton\_Gormley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clinton_Gormley)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2013, 9:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-api-doesnt-return-consistent-results-first-query-returns-2-hits-second-in-3-hits-third-2-hits-and-so-on/10540/3 "2013-01-30T09:37:58Z")
On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 08:21 -0800, Olav Grønås Gjerde wrote:
> I changed the index mapping on the name property from
>
> 'name': { 'type': 'string', 'index': 'analyzed' } to 'name':
> { 'type': 'string', 'index': 'not\_analyzed' }
> And now the returned documents are always consistent.
I think that this was coincidental. I think the real issue was that
somehow you managed to end up with more docs on the primaries than on
the replicas. So when you changed the mapping (ie reindexed) then it
sorted out the doc inconsistency.
I don't know how you ended up with replicas being different from
primaries. Did you have any OOM or other errors while indexing?.
> But isn't it better to have the name field analyzed if you want it to
> be searchable?
that depends what the name field represents in your data. A not\_analyzed
field is still searchable, but eg if your name is "John Smith" and it is
analyzed, then you can search on "john". If it is not\_analyzed then you
can only search on the exact value "John Smith".
clint
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-api-doesnt-return-consistent-results-first-query-returns-2-hits-second-in-3-hits-third-2-hits-and-so-on/10540/4 "2017-07-06T02:54:01Z")