This is correct. On the last request, no hits are returned because all shards have already been drained of results. If you look at shards.total and shards.failed, you'll see they are also 0
clint On 4 August 2014 12:54, Tim S <timsti...@gmail.com> wrote: > When scroll-scanning > <http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/1.x/search-request-scroll.html#scroll-scan>, > I keep scrolling until I get a result that returns 0 docs, which is what > the docs seem to suggest that I should do. > > But the final request (the one that returns 0 docs), always has > _shards.successful=0. Normally, I’d consider this to indicate a failure > (no shards responded). If doing a normal (non-scan) scroll, > _shards.successful=1 (I’ve got 1 shard in this case), even when I’ve got > to the point where there’s no more docs to scroll. > > Is this a bug in the scanning? Or am I wrong to consider the > _shards.successful=0 to indicate a failure? > > Tested on version 1.3.1. > > -- > 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 elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/3998b393-476d-4fc4-a809-a15da19bdf8d%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/3998b393-476d-4fc4-a809-a15da19bdf8d%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 elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAPt3XKQLaJAVtwvOgScGhr-inoT8KpG9k3_Q%2BpCvNetX%3DcpMNQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.