I have been digging into the consistency guarantees provided by ElasticSearch and I am a bit confused by looking at the code. It seems like the only time we look at how many replicas the write succeeded on is prior to issuing the write <https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/blob/20278f491ac3e62be30544a862344a9b8b1f647c/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/support/replication/TransportShardReplicationOperationAction.java#L398-L418> [1].
So I want to ask a question which should hopefully have a clear answer. * write consistency level is quorum * replication type is sync * a write is issued. it succeeds on primary but not on a quorum of all the shards (primary shard & replicas). will this result in a failure response? If yes, I would love to see some corroboration! Cheers, Shikhar [1] related issue: definition of quorum in ES code is off. github issue <https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/6482>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAHWG4DP-mMc-UoQ-RYMB1iA9770v-3QE3FxzTdEUoFxKz_N-sQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
