This is weird. Are you sure what you are seeing is not overridden documents (can happen if you specify the ID yourself)? Can you add the _timestamp field to the results and verify the documents are indeed not sorted by _timestamp?
-- Itamar Syn-Hershko http://code972.com | @synhershko <https://twitter.com/synhershko> Freelance Developer & Consultant Author of RavenDB in Action <http://manning.com/synhershko/> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Stefan Eberl <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all, > > I have a question regarding sorting by _timestamp. > > The _timestamp "enabled" setting is set to true, everything else is not > explicitly specified (so I assume default values are used). > I have an application inserting new documents periodically and I would > assume that _timestamp gets filled with the current timestamp. > > After a while I perform the following sort > curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/my_index/my_type/_search?pretty' -d ' { > "sort" : [ > { "_timestamp" : {"order" : "desc" } } > ] > } > > I would expect to always get the last 10 inserted documents, which is not > the case. > Sometimes I get the most recent ones, sometimes I get some historical data. > > Thanks for your help. > > BR, > Stefan > > > -- > 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/1d81d216-f393-4618-afb7-74d71aa7841c%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/1d81d216-f393-4618-afb7-74d71aa7841c%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CAHTr4Zu8xcCKvC_joOdGDCKc7SMamOJh1W2jfqs4%3Dh8g%2BbysHg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
