I'm getting some errors I don't really understand (unfortunately only in production, too, I can't reproduce them elsewhere)---occasionally attempts to update or insert a document will result in either a DocumentAlreadyExistsException, or a version conflict (even though I'm not setting a version explicitly).
The code I'm using to insert/update documents (using the Python api) is:
self.es.update(index=self.index_name,
doc_type=obj._doctype,
id=obj._doc_id,
body={'doc': obj.to_es(), 'doc_as_upsert': True})
Where self and obj are instances of some helper classes.
Given the doc_as_upsert setting I would have thought that if the document already exists it would just be replaced (and this is what happens in the vast majority of cases), not cause an error; given that I'm not setting a version explicitly, the version conflict error seems equally inexplicable. Can anyone help me out? What's going on? Thanks!