# Update By Query Limitation

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-by-query-limitation/105058>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 24, 2017, 12:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-by-query-limitation/105058 "2017-10-24T12:12:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Tamizh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Tamizh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tamizh)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2017, 12:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-by-query-limitation/105058/1 "2017-10-24T12:12:16Z")

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Got error when try to update the documents using update\_by\_query

```
[script] Too many dynamic script compilations within one minute, max: [15/min]; please use on-disk, 
indexed, or scripts with parameters instead; this limit can be changed by the
[script.max_compilations_per_minute

```

The query that used for updating is

```
update_query = {
		"query": {
			"match": {
				"user.id": user.id
			}
		},
		"script": {
			"inline": "ctx._source.user.subscriber_count = " + str(user.subscriber_count) +
				"; ctx._source.user.is_approved = true"
		}
	}

```

How to avoid this error ??

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**Author:** ![abdon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/abdon/32/9195_2.png) [@abdon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abdon)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2017, 10:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-by-query-limitation/105058/2 "2017-10-28T22:49:01Z")

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I'm assuming you're running this inside some kind of iterator over a number of users? The problem here is, is that you're sending Elasticsearch a unique script for each user (as `user.subscriber_count` will be different each time). This causes Elasticsearch to recompile the script with each request, and as a result you're exceeding the default max number of compilations per minute.

The solution is probably to rewrite your script using parameters:

```
update_query = {
  "query": {
    "match": {
      "user.id": user.id
    }
  },
  "script": {
    "inline": "ctx._source.user.subscriber_count = params.subscriber_count; ctx._source.user.is_approved = true",
    "params": {
      "subscriber_count": user.subscriber_count
    }
  }
}
```

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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:** [November 25, 2017, 10:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-by-query-limitation/105058/3 "2017-11-25T22:49:26Z")

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