You can have an alias point to multiple indices. With time-series data, this should be a problem since you will not have overlap between the different indices. But I think you are correct in that there is no atomic way to accomplish all three.
I only search against aliases, so having an index without an alias is acceptable since I can accomplish the last 2 steps atomically without interfering querying (some data might not be available). Cheers, Ivan On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Matt Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a time-series index. I create a new version once a day using the > format index-name-YYYY-mm-dd. > > When creating the index, I assign it a constant alias of 'index-name'. > This way, clients can just refer to the 'index-name', and not have to > append the timestamp. I create the alias when I create the index so it's > an atomic operation; however I create a new index every day and am > assigning it the same alias. This is blowing up as you can't have the same > alias point to multiple indexes. I'm trying to fix this but can't find an > atomic way to: > > 1) create the new index > 2) remove the alias from the old index > 3) add the alias to the new index > > I can do 1/3 atomically using the index API or 2/3 atomically using the > alias API, but I can't find a way to do all three. > > Any ideas? > > -- > 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/6322f948-6574-45ce-b859-773dbae1f1da%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/6322f948-6574-45ce-b859-773dbae1f1da%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/CALY%3DcQBRfb37gJ3Ytmg_kGus-uVNn9h85uvpjG-Et4QM4eZTZw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
