# Update\_by\_query - empty failures list in response when conflicts=proceed

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-by-query-empty-failures-list-in-response-when-conflicts-proceed/325100
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 9, 2023, 7:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-by-query-empty-failures-list-in-response-when-conflicts-proceed/325100 "2023-02-09T07:13:35Z")
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### Author: ![Przemyslaw\_Mantaj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/przemyslaw_mantaj/32/81464_2.png) [@Przemyslaw\_Mantaj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Przemyslaw_Mantaj)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2023, 7:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-by-query-empty-failures-list-in-response-when-conflicts-proceed/325100/1 "2023-02-09T07:13:35Z")

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Continuing the discussion from [Update\_by\_query with proceed does not return failure](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-by-query-with-proceed-does-not-return-failure/309338):

I repeat @Paul_Le_Tilly question.

Is it possible to return the failures list when the `conflicts` option has been set to `proceed`?

Thanks to that I could retry my update with failed documents. Now it's not possible without changing an additional field in the document.

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### Author: ![Przemyslaw\_Mantaj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/przemyslaw_mantaj/32/81464_2.png) [@Przemyslaw\_Mantaj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Przemyslaw_Mantaj)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2023, 5:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-by-query-empty-failures-list-in-response-when-conflicts-proceed/325100/2 "2023-02-15T05:51:30Z")

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I found the answer here: [github](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/17544)

> We talked about this in the initial reindex implementation. We didn't want to do more than count the failures when `conflicts=proceed` because the number of failures can grow huge. It is possible to preserve the first N of them if we have a use case for it, but we'll never be able to preserve all of them.

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2023, 5:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-by-query-empty-failures-list-in-response-when-conflicts-proceed/325100/3 "2023-03-15T05:51:50Z")

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