I cannot feed when using the alias (pointing to multiple indices) - this
makes sense, but why is the update API not working? Couldn't Elasticsearch
get the concrete index as well as the document when searching and then use
that to do the update?
Until the "update by query" API is available, couldn't you just search
for the document you want to update, using the alias, the type, and an ID,
and then just use the regular AP? Because ES returns the "original",
non-aliased index name in the response.
Karel
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