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lines changed Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -6,9 +6,13 @@ API. The merge relates to the number of segments a Lucene index holds within
66each shard. The force merge operation allows to reduce the number of segments by
77merging them.
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9- This call will block until the merge is complete. If the http connection is
10- lost, the request will continue in the background, and any new requests will
11- block until the previous force merge is complete.
9+ === Blocks during a force merge
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11+ Calls to this API block until the merge is complete. If the client
12+ connection is lost before completion then the force merge process
13+ will continue in the background. Any new requests to force merge the
14+ same indices will also block until the ongoing force merge is
15+ complete.
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1317WARNING: Force merge should only be called against *read-only indices*. Running
1418force merge against a read-write index can cause very large segments to be produced
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