# Update by query in ES with option conflicts=proceed
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-by-query-in-es-with-option-conflicts-proceed/353169
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 13, 2024, 12:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-by-query-in-es-with-option-conflicts-proceed/353169 "2024-02-13T12:57:00Z")
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### Author:  [@sdv](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sdv)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2024, 12:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-by-query-in-es-with-option-conflicts-proceed/353169/1 "2024-02-13T12:57:00Z")
Hi Team,
I have below two questions for ' **update\_by\_query**' API with option ' **conflicts=proceed**'.
1. Basically if we allow processing documents with 'conflicts=proceed' option and still have a retry based on ' **VersionConflicts**' field of response, the next time will it perform update for all documents matching search filter or just for the documents which has old data for that field?
2. Do we have any plan to return the documents for which 'update\_by\_query' has failed when we specify 'conflict=proceed' option. I can see that in documentation but actual behavior is different, we get empty array in response. It will be really useful if that is in plan.
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2024, 12:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-by-query-in-es-with-option-conflicts-proceed/353169/3 "2024-02-15T12:58:54Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2024, 12:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-by-query-in-es-with-option-conflicts-proceed/353169/4 "2024-03-14T12:59:47Z")
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